Full Description
This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.
Migration, global economic restructuring, and climate change are rapidly transforming rural places across the globe. Yet, global attention characteristically focuses on urban social and economic issues, neglecting the continued roles of rural people and places. Organized around the three core themes of demographic change, rural-urban partnerships and innovations, and landscape change, the case studies included in this volume represent both the Global North and Global South and underscore the complexity and multi-scalar nature of these contemporary challenges in rural development, planning, and sustainability.
This book would be valuable supplementary reading for both students and professionals in the fields of rural land management and rural planning.
Contents
1.Introduction. Part I: Agricultural and Land Use Transitions. 2.Agribusiness Towns, Globalization and Development in Rural Australia and Brazil. 3.A Change in the Role of Women in the Rural Area of Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey. 4.Agricultural Transition in Rural China: Intersections of the Global, National and Local. 5.A Checkered Pathway to Prosperity: The Institutional Challenges of Smallholder Tobacco Production in Zimbabwe. Part II: Demographic Diversity. 6.The Changing Rural Periphery: Contested Landscape, Agricultural Preservation, and New Rural Residents in Dakota County, Minnesota, U.S.A. 7.Labour Immigration and Demographic Transformation: Lithuanian and Polish Nationals in Rural Ireland. 8.Shaping Public Spaces in Rural Areas: Lessons from Villages in the Gmina of Krobia, Poland. 9.Mother's Little Helper: A Feminist Political Ecology of West Africa's Herbicide Revolution. Part III: Rural Innovations and Urban-Rural Partnerships. 10.Towards a Strategic Model for Sustainable Agriculture in Mediterranean Countries: A Case Study of the Cooperativa Hortec (Catalonia, Spain). 11.Rural Innovation and the Valorization of Local Resources in the High Atlas of Marrakesh. 12.Does an Agricultural Products' Certification System Reorganize Vegetable Farmers? A Case of the VietGAP Program in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. 13.Relocalizing Food Systems for Everyone, Everywhere? Reflections on Walloon Initiatives (Belgium). 14.Conclusion
