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  • The New Regulation and Governance of Food

    Beyond the Food Crisis?

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis of the late 1990s, and traces the changing relationships between three key ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Constructuring The Countryside

    An Approach To Rural Development

    As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing, they place research into rural studies much more firmly than hitherto in the mainstream of social science ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes

    Food Security, Climate Change and the Future Resilience of Global Agriculture

    by Terry Marsden ...
    Series Book 18 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation. The stalemate that had emerged between these two positions by 2000 has now been dramatically reconfigured. This book argues that there are four reasons why this area of ... Read more

    $136.19 USD

  • Metropolitan Ruralities

    by Terry Marsden ...
    Series Book 23 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of living among an urban, academically educated middle class, an actual instance of which is the interest ... Read more

    $154.19 USD

  • Agri-Food and Rural Development

    Sustainable Place-Making

    Series series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
    The agri-food and rural development world has experienced significant changes in recent years. The evolution towards globalized and highly complex food supply systems has been accompanied by growing competition, reduced state subsidies as well as concerns about quality, output and the environment. At the beginning of the 21st century, the agri-food industry is urgently searching for new solutions ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Labour and Locality

    Uneven Development and the Rural Labour Process

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level. A range of important issues is addressed, including the commoditization and transformation of rural labour, and the role played by state policy in restructuring rural labour markets. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rural Enterprise

    Shifting Perspectives on Small Scale Production

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1991, the focus of the contributions in this book is the relationships between rurality and small-scale production, particularly in Europe. This remains relevant, as then, as when the book was first published, the issues covered had a particular resonance in the shifting terrain of Europe and the political debates surrounding its common future. The contributors explore the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Rural Restructuring

    Global Processes and Their Responses

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change. This book provides global viewpoints which show readers a more integral and critical analysis on rural areas based on the changing realities of the 1990s. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sustainable Places

    Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Technological Change and the Rural Environment

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation. The book discusses these problems and other issues such as how rural environments in many developed and developing countries have been transformed by a technological revolution. Looking at a diverse range of topics from ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Gender and Rurality

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret. The chapters address the gendered power relations of rural households and agricultural science; women’s mobilisation in farming and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Regulating Agriculture

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1994, this volume brings together a set of essays reflecting the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Drawing on different national and international viewpoints, the essays present original analyses of agricultural regulation in a comparative context. The aspects covered include ... Read more

    $42.99 USD