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Farmers and Village Life in Japanby Ann Waswo; Yoshiaki Nishida
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 44.95This book presents a range of work that seeks to move beyond stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present. more...
Rural Politicsby Michael Winter
Routledge 1996; US$ 71.95Rural Politics provides a much needed examination of the evolution and content of policies affecting today's countryside, both in terms of major land use and economic and social development. more...
Politics of Territoryby Dr Brendan Murtagh; Seamus Dunn; Valerie Morgan
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 130.00This book explores the relationship between land use planning and ethno-religious segregation. It draws on a range of empirical research and case studies to explore the meaning attached to land in contested places, the challenges these present to planners and the possibilities for accommodating differences over the use and development of territory. The author argues that planners have a significant role in the management of these processes and sets out some ideas about how this might be addressed in local and global settings, including the Balkans and Palestine. more...
Environment, Power, and Injusticeby Nancy J. Jacobs; Donald Worster; Alfred W. Crosby
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks. more...
Contested Countryside Culturesby Paul J. Cloke; Jo Little
Routledge 1997; US$ 71.95This book charts the experiences of marginalised groups living in (and visiting) the countryside, revealing how notions of the rural have been created to reflect and reinforce divisions among those living there. more...
Working The Sahelby M.j. Mortimore; W.M. Adams
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 234.00Drawing on four years of field research, the authors look at how farmers manage biological resources, crop and non-crop biodiversity, soil fertility, and transform the landscape through agricultural intensification. more...
Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communitiesby Cornelia Flora
CRC Press 2001; US$ 94.95This title shows how human behaviour impacts agroecosystems both positively and negatively, and provides an understanding of alternative ways of working with human communities to increase agroecosystem sustainability. more...
Transforming English Rural Societyby John Broad; Richard Smith; Jan De Vries; Paul Johnson; Keith Wrightson
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 49.00John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire. He shows how the family were impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, how they managed their estates to maximise income and transformed three local villages into 'open' and 'closed' parishes. more...
Garden Spotby David Walbert
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 50.00Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been known for two centuries as the "Garden Spot of America," a quintessentially rural place. Walbert considers what it means to be the Garden Spot in a culture that associates rurality with the past and asks whether or not a truly rural future is possible for such communities. more...
Employment Dynamics in Rural Europeby I.J. Terluin; J.H. Post
CAB International 2000; US$ 99.95This text provides an analysis of rural employment dynamics in European Union member states and is the result of the RUREMPLO (Agriculture and employment in the rural regions of the EU'') project, supported by an EU research programme. more...









