1st Edition
Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe The Relational Turn in Rural Development
Section I Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The New Rural Economy and macro-scale patterns Chapter 3. The evolution of European rural policy Chapter 4. Parallel Worlds? Comparing the perspectives and rationales of EU Rural Development and Cohesion Policy Chapter 5. Territorial Cohesion: US and Canadian Perspectives on the Concept Section II Chapter 6. Demographic trends in Rural Europe Chapter 7. Reconciling Labour Mobility and Cohesion Policies –The Rural Experience Chapter 8. Business networks and translocal linkages and the way to the NRE Chapter 9. Agricultural Restructuring in the EU: An Irish Case Study Section III Chapter 10. Changing social characteristics, patterns of inequality and exclusion Chapter 11. Beyond the New Rural Paradigm: Project state and collective reflexive agency Epilogue Rural Cohesion Policy as the appropriate response to current rural trends.
Biography
Andrew K. Copus is an Economic Geographer with the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group at The James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK.
Philomena de Lima is a Sociologist and the Director of the Centre for Rural and Remote Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness College, Scotland, UK.
