The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Vittuari, Matteo; Johnson, Thomas G.; Pagani, Marco; Devlin, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook analyses policies and institutions which have been intended to support rural development in an international, comparative context. Focusing on rural regions, people and economies, the volume examines the success or failure of those polices and asks which might assure the survival and development of rural regions in the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429950810
• Artikelnr.: 57928490

Autorenporträt

Matteo Vittuari, PhD, is Associate Professor in Agricultural, Food and Rural Policy and Agricultural Policy Evaluation at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy. John Devlin, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Rural Planning and Development Program, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph, Canada. Marco Pagani, PhD, is a Research Fellow in the Rural Policy Learning Commons Project. Thomas Johnson, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures. List of tables. Notes on contributors. Acknowledgements.
Rural Policy Learning Commons. Introduction.
Part I: Introduction to comparative rural policy studies 1 What is rural?
What is rural policy? What is rural development policy? 2 Comparing
ruralities: the case of Canada and the United States. 3 What is rural? The
historical evolution of rural typologies in Europe. 4 A comparative rural
profile across OECD member countries. 5 Why comparative rural policy
studies? Comparative theory and methods. 6 Policy process theory for rural
policy. 7 Policy outcomes of decentralized public programs: implications
for rural policy. 8 Co-constructing rural futures: understanding
place-based development and policy. 9 Territorial capital in rural policy
development.
Part II: People and society 10 International migration: sustaining rural
communities. 11 Rural immigration and welcoming communities. 12 The role of
women in rural areas. 13 Rural poverty in a comparative context. 14
Understanding the dimensions of aging and old age in rural areas. 15 Rural
health and well-being. 16 Rural policy and the cultural construction of the
urban/rural divide in the United States and Europe.
Part III: Resources and environment 17 Environmental policy: what are the
options? 18 The inefficiency of resource policy as a mechanism to deliver
rural policy. 19 The water-energy-food-climate nexus. 20 Governance of
watersheds in rural areas. 21 Rethinking energy in agricultural and rural
areas. 22 Conventional and alternative agri-food chains. 23 Building
sustainable regional food systems: policies and support. 24 Drivers of food
losses and their implications for the agro-food chain: selected case
studies. 25 Fish as food: policies affecting food sovereignty for rural
Indigenous communities in North America. 26 Public policies affecting
community forest management.
Part IV: Innovation 27 Social economy and entrepreneurship in rural areas.
28 Grounded innovation in the rural bioeconomy. 29 Innovation, broadband,
and community resilience. 30 Climate change adaptation by farmers: the case
of Nepal.
Part V: Rural policy reviews 31 Rural policy in the United States. 32
Rural policy in Canada. 33 Rural policy in Europe. 34 Rural policy in the
Western Balkans.
Part VI: Comparative rural policy case studies 35 Peri-urban agricultural
policies in Canada and France. 36 A non-profit as a policy actor? A case
study of the Breds Treasure Beach Foundation in Jamaica. 37 Post-Soviet
rural areas towards European integration: the difficult transition of
Moldova. 38 "Why local governments?" An ongoing debate in rural New
Brunswick, Canada. 39 A comparative case study of the Main Street Program
in the United States. 40 Community-managed forestry in Palo Seco, Mexico.
41 Land ownership and land management policies in Norway and Scotland. 42
Local policies addressing poverty and social exclusion in rural Spain
during the recession. 43 Integral mountain development in Spain: an
historical review.
Index.