Description
Rural policy in industrialized countries is currently undergoing significant change. 'Place-based economies', where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments, are increasingly important for rural development. The Next Rural Economies debates the future of rural development and highlights successes and failures to inform research, policy and community action. Case studies present discussions of the current state of rural community and economic restructuring and provide research and policy directions for constructing resilient and sustainable rural economies.
Table of contents
- 1: Introduction: The Next Rural Economies
- a: Demographics, Migration, and Immigration
- 2: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed Something:::? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the New Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia
- 3: The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development
- 4: A New Rural North Carolina: Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement
- 5: Connecting Rural and Urban Places: Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wales
- 6: Ontario’s Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation: Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economy
- b: Emerging Economies
- 7: Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism: Lessons from Ireland
- 8: Value-Added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan’s Fruit Belt
- 9: Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy: Examples from Germany and Canada
- 10: Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region: The Case of Miramichi, New Brunswick
- c: Rural Policy and Governance
- 11: Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors
- 12: Partnerships, People, and Place: Lauding the Local in Rural Development
- 13: The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside: Stories from Rural Wales
- d: Rural-Urban Exchange
- 14: Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes
- 15: When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place: The Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France
- 16: Rural Development Strategies in Japan
- e: Renewal in Resource Peripheries
- 17: Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada’s Periphery: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador
- 18: Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development: A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy
- 19: Understanding and Transforming a Staples-Based Economy: Place-Based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada
- 20: Space to Place: Bridging the Gap
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