Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK
Routledge Studies in Development and Society
1 Searching for Security
Womens Responses to
Economic Transformations
Edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth
2 The Life Region
The Social and Cultural Ecology
of Sustainable Development
Edited by Per Rberg
3 Dams as Aid
Anne Usher
4 Politics of Development
Cooperation
NGOs, Gender and
Partnership in Kenya
Lisa Aubrey
5 Psychology of Aid
A Motivational Perspective
Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe
and Malcolm MacLachlan
6 Gender, Ethnicity and Place
Women and Identity in Guyana
Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz
7 Housing and Finance in
Developing Countries
Edited by Kavita Datta
and Gareth Jones
8 Peasants and Religion
A Socioeconomic Study of Dios
Olivorio and the Palma Sola
Religion in the Dominican Republic
Jan Lundius and Mats Lundahl
9 Environment and Development
in the Straits of Malacca
Mark Cleary and
Goh Kim Chuan
10 Technical Knowledge and
Development
Observing Aid Projects and
Processes
Thomas Grammig
11 World Bank and Urban
Development
From Projects to Policy
Edward Ramsamy
12 Poverty Orientated
Agricultural and
Rural Development
Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen
13 Political Confl ict and
Development in East Asia
and Latin America
Edited by Richard Boyd,
Benno Galjart and Tak-Wing Ngo
14 Marine Natural Resources and
Technological Development
An Economic Analysis of the
Wealth from the Oceans
Marco Colazingari
15 Global Migration
and Development
Edited by Ton Van Naerssen, Ernst
Spaan, and Annelies Zoomers
16 Children, Structure and Agency
Realities Across the
Developing World
G.K. Lieten
17 Understanding the Social
Dimension of Sustainability
Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica
Dujon and Mary C. King
18 On the Edges of Development
Cultural Interventions
Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani,
John Foran, Priya Kurian and
Debashish Munshi
19 Rural Development
Theory and Practice
Ruth McAreavey
20 The Political Economy
of Water and Sanitation
Matthias Krause
21 Dislocation and Resettlement
in Development
From Third World to
the World of the Third
Anjan Chakrabarti
and Anup Kumar Dhar
22 Community Development
in Asia and the Pacifi c
Manohar S. Pawar
23 Development Poverty
and Politics
Putting Communities
in the Drivers Seat
Richard Martin and
Ashna Mathema
24 Protecting Biological Diversity
The Effectiveness of Access and
Benefi t-sharing Regimes
Carmen Richerzhagen
25 Social Development
Critical Themes and Perspectives
Edited by Manohar S. Pawar and
David R. Cox
26 Indias New Economic Policy
A Critical Analysis
Edited by Waquar Ahmed,
Amitabh Kundu and Richard Peet
27 Towards Sustainable Rural
Regions in Europe
Exploring Inter-Relationships
Between Rural Policies, Farming,
Environment, Demographics,
Regional Economies and Quality
of Life Using System Dynamics
Edited by John M. Bryden,
Sophia Efstratoglou,
Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel,
Tom Johnson, Karen Refsgaard
and Kenneth J. Thomson
28 Global Trends and Regional
Development
Edited by Nikolai Genov
29 Alternatives to Privatization
Public Options for Essential
Services in the Global South
Edited by David A. McDonald
and Greg Ruiters
30 Rural Transformations and
Rural Policies in the US and UK
Edited by Mark Shucksmith,
David L. Brown, Sally Shortall, Jo
Vergunst and Mildred E. Warner
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Rural transformations and rural policies in the US and UK / edited by Mark Shucksmith [et al.].
p. cm. (Routledge studies in development and society ; 30)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Rural developmentUnited States. 2. Rural developmentGreat Britain. 3. United StatesRural conditions. 4. Great BritainRural conditions. 5. Sociology, Rural. I. Shucksmith, Mark.
HN59.2.R874 2011
307.14120941dc23
2011031179
ISBN: 978-0-415-89010-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-14427-5 (ebk)
This book is dedicated to rural people and communities in the UK and US who are successfully meeting challenges posed by past legacies and future transformations.