Mark Shucksmith - Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies

Rural societies around the world are changing in fundamental ways, both at their own initiative and in response to external forces. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies examines the organisation and transformation of rural society in more developed regions of the world, taking an interdisciplinary and problem-focused approach. Written by leading social scientists from many countries, it addresses emerging issues and challenges in innovative and provocative ways to inform future policy. This volume is organised around eight emerging social, economic and environmental challenges:

Demographic change

Economic transformations

Food systems and land

Environment and resources

Changing configurations of gender and rural society

Social and economic equality

Social dynamics and institutional capacity

Power and governance

Cross-cutting these challenges are the growing interdependence of rural and urban; the rise in inequality within and between places; the impact of fiscal crisis on rural societies; neoliberalism, power and agency; and rural areas as potential sites of resistance. The Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies is required reading for anyone concerned with the future of rural areas.

Mark Shucksmith is Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Social Renewal, UK, where he is also Professor of Planning. His main areas of research include rural development, social exclusion in rural areas, rural housing, agricultural change and rural policy. His books include Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK (Routledge, 2012), Future Directions in Rural Development (Carnegie UK Trust, 2012), Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe (Ashgate, 2009), CAP and the Regions: The Territorial Impact of the CAP (CABI, 2005), Young People and Rural Policy in Europe (Ashgate, 2004), Housing in the European Countryside (Routledge, 2003) and Exclusive Countryside? Social Inclusion and Regeneration in Rural Britain (JRF, 2000). In 20072008 he chaired the Scottish Governments Committee of Inquiry into Crofting, which led to the Crofting Reform Act 2010. He has also served on the UK Governments Commission for Rural Communities, Affordable Rural Housing Commission, and Countryside Agency. He directed the Joseph Rowntree Foundations programme on Action in Rural Areas 19962000. Mark was vice president of the International Rural Sociological Association from 2004 to 2008, and was programme chair for the XI World Rural Sociology Congress in Norway in 2004. He has provided advice to governments and agencies in several countries, and to the OECD. He was awarded the OBE by the Queen in 2009 for services to rural development and to crofting.

David L. Brown is International Professor of Development Sociology, and co-director of the Community & Regional Development Institute at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Professor Brown is a social demographer whose research focuses on migration and development, and the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities. He has published over 50 scholarly articles and written or edited 11 books on rural population and society. His most recent books include Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the UK and US (Routledge, 2012) (co-edited), Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Resilience and Transformation (Polity, 2011) (with Kai Schafft), Rural Retirement Migration (Springer, 2008) (with Nina Glasgow), Population Change and Rural Society (Springer, 2006) (co-edited) and Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century (Penn State, 2003) (co-edited). He is past president of the Rural Sociological Society, was elected to the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology, and was chair of the American Sociological Associations section on the Sociology of Development in 2015. He received the Distinguished Rural Sociologist Award from the Rural Sociological Society, the Chancellors Award for Sustained Professional Service from the State University of New York, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Rousse University in Bulgaria in 2007 recognising his contributions to that universitys rural and regional development educational programmes.

Routledge International Handbook of Rural Studies

SECTION EDITORS

NEIL ARGENT
BETTINA B. BOCK
LYNDA CHESHIRE
DAVID FRESHWATER
GEOFFREY LAWRENCE
KATRINA RNNINGEN
KAI A. SCHAFFT
SALLY SHORTALL

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Names: Shucksmith, Mark, editor. | Brown, David L. (David Louis), 1945-editor.
Title: Routledge international handbook of rural studies / edited by Mark Shucksmith and David Brown.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2015048216| ISBN 9781138804371 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315753041 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sociology, Rural. | Rural development.
Classification: LCC HT421 .R68 2016 | DDC 307.1/412--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015048216

ISBN: 978-1-138-80437-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75304-1 (ebk)

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PART I
Demographic Change

PART II
Economic Transformations

PART III
Food Systems and Land