Rural planning and policy

The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years.

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts.

In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

Refraction and retinoscopy are essential skills in progression through ophthalmology specialty training and require consistent practice.

This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis.

American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession.

Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas.

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.

Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders.

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design.

Originally published in 1991.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

More than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'.

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities.

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities.

The need for a "e;new"e; book on Greek colonization arose to analyse this phenomenon as a long-term process in a wide geographic area.

Alvar Aalto and The Art of Landscape captures the essence of the Finnish architect's landscape concept, emphasising culture and tradition, which characterised his approach to and understanding of architecture as part of the wider environment.

The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies.

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.

Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was the largest single agency created under the auspices of the New Deal legislation.

This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy.

The rural-urban dichotomy is one of the most influential figures of thought in history, laying the foundation for academic disciplines such as rural and urban sociology.

In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world.

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use.

Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues - yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land.

Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations.

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.

The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty.

All around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.