Title: Engagement with the land: redemption of the rural residence fantasy?
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the environmental and social dilemmas faced by people moving from cities to their rural hinterlands in North America. It indicates that the cultural norms and narratives of consumption and preservation available to prospective rural residents seem to undermine the potential of these residents to work towards a sustainable inhabitance of the environment. Using the concepts of 'residential tourism' and 'leisure environmentalism', the chapter illustrates the utopian potential of the compulsion towards country living. In doing so, it suggests some ways to open the discourse on environmental planning to include sustainable relationships that allow for, and support, the carrying out of good intentions towards the environment.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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