Rural Geography

INTRODUCING RURAL GEOGRAPHY/Defining the Rural/Understanding the Rural/PART TWO: PROCESSES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING/Globalization Modernity and the Rural World/Agricultural Change/The Changing Rural Economy/Social and Demographic Change/Changing Communities/Restructuring Rural Services/Environmental Change and Rural Areas/PART THREE: RESPONSES TO RURAL RESTRUCTURING/Rural Policy and the Response to Restructuring/Rural Development and Regeneration/Rural Governance/Selling the Countryside/Protecting the Countryside/Rural Conflicts/PART FOUR: EXPERIENCES OF RURAL RESTRUCTURING/Changing Rural Lifestyles/Living in the Countryside/Housing Health and Crime/Growing up and Growing Old in the Countryside/Working in the Countryside/Hidden Rural Lifestyles/Poverty and Social Exclusion/Rurality National Identity and Ethnicity/Alternative Rural Lifestyles/PART FIVE: CONCLUSION/Thinking again about the Rural