Rural planning and policy

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

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A unique title comparing rural policies and employment in the two most developed parts of the world - the EU and USA.

The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia.

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South.

Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management.

Food has become an essential component in community development practice.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

For many decades debates about the future of developed world agriculture policy have been dominated by a long political conflict between European/multifunctional policy regimes and the global trend towards trade liberalisation.

In recent years northern development has increasingly become a controversial issue in Canadian federal politics: the ensuing confusion of economic arguments and political discussion demonstrates the disorderly and inaccurate thinking of most Canadians on the subject.

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion.

This book dives into the achievements, opportunities, risks and dangers of ICT in the rural Global South, and takes a look at the likely future.

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

Covid-19 was a canary in a mine.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas.

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

A major new introduction to the UK planning system.

An examination of poverty dynamics and developmental failure, shifting emphasis from development as control to development as coping strategy.

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.

A unique title comparing rural policies and employment in the two most developed parts of the world - the EU and USA.

This book introduces the principles of landscape stewardship in relation to sustainability governance, applying them to a broad range of land-use systems.

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want?

Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development.

This book is a critical account of the disconnected nature of governance, conservation and livelihood initiatives in the Indian Sundarbans.

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

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

This book investigates the concept of human landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last 50 years.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

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.

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process.

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

How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income communities of the developing world?

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