Title: Sustainable Rural Systems: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities
Abstract:Contents: Preface Part 1 Introduction: Sustainable rural systems: an introduction, Guy M. Robinson Productivism versus post-productivism? Modes of agri-environmental governance in post-Fordist agricul...Contents: Preface Part 1 Introduction: Sustainable rural systems: an introduction, Guy M. Robinson Productivism versus post-productivism? Modes of agri-environmental governance in post-Fordist agricultural transitions, Mark Tilzey and Clive Potter. Part 2 Sustainable Agriculture: Constructing sustainability through reconnection: the case of 'alternative' food networks, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Laura Venn, Lewis Holloway, Elizabeth Dowler and Helena Tuomainen Farm animals and rural sustainability, Nick Evans and Richard Yarwood A study of the motivations and influences on farmers' decisions to leave the organic farming sector in the United Kingdom, Frances Harris, Guy M. Robinson and Isobel Griffiths GM farming and sustainability, Bruce D. Pearce Balancing nature conservation 'needs' and those of other land uses in a multi-functional context: high-value nature conservation sites in lowland England, Christopher Short. Part 3 Sustainable Rural Communities: 'Culture economy', 'integrated tourism' and 'sustainable rural development': evidence from Western Ireland, Mary Cawley and Desmond A. Gillmor The Cumbria hill sheep initiative: a solution to the decline in upland hill farming community in England?, Lois Mansfield Participation and stewardship: sustainability in 2 Canadian environmental programmes, Guy M. Robinson Index.Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-11-28
Language: en
Type: book
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