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Sustainable development and geographical space : issues of population, environment, globalization and education in marginal regions / edited by Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Bradley Cullen.
Lippincott Library HC79.E5 S872 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Marginal regions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--Congresses.
- Sustainable development.
- Regional planning--Congresses.
- Regional planning.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Population and sustainability
- 2 From unity to the present
- spatial aspects of population development in Tuscany seen on maps / Maria Andreoli, Heikki Jussila, Vittorio Tellarini 7
- 3 Patterns of population sustainability in the US Midlands / J. Clark Archer, Richard E. Lonsdale 25
- 4 Economic growth, ecological consequences and depopulation in the rural areas of Galicia (Spain) / Ruben Lois-Gonzalez 37
- 5 Local poverty in Finland in 1995 / Jarmo Rusanen, Toivo Muilu, Alfred Colpaert, Arvo Naukkarinen 49
- 6 Regional imbalances in Spain at the end of the century / Roser Majoral, Dolores Sanchez-Aguilera 65
- 7 Job development and regional structure
- local examples of growing and declining industries in Northern Finland / Toivo Muilu 83
- 8 Rural development and marginal areas in Slovenia / Stanko Pelc 99
- Part 2 Environment and sustainability
- 9 Establishing a sustainable conservation policy in northern Saudi Arabia / Gareth Jones, Ahmed Al Modayan 115
- 10 Biosphere reserves
- sustainable development of marginal regions? / Walter Leimgruber, Thomas Hammer 129
- 11 Sorghum based farming systems in Botswana
- the challenges of improving rural livelihood in a drought prone environment / Charles E. Bussing, David W. Norman 145
- 12 Global change and community self-reliance strategies in Southern Africa / Etienne Nel 159
- 13 Subsistence and marginal lands
- an Alaskan political and geographic issue / Donald F. Lynch, Roger W. Pearson 173
- 14 Traditional water rights in northern New Mexico / Olen Paul Matthews 186
- Part 3 Global economic development and sustainability
- 15 Spatial shifts in production and consumption
- marginality patterns in the new international division of labour / Assefa Mehretu, Bruce WM. Pigozzi, Lawrence M. Sommers 195
- 16 Economic change and transportation deregulation in selected marginal and critical areas of the US Pacific Northwest / Steven Kale 209
- 17 Nearer the core
- the fishing sector in one of Europe's marginal regions / Xose Santos-Solla 223
- 18 Tourism and sustainable development
- 'snow tourism' in European Mountain regions / Francesco Lopez-Palomeque, Marti Cors-Iglesias 237
- 19 Rural tourism and new patterns of development in the Portuguese rural space / Joao Luis Fernandes, Fernanda Delgado Cravidao 249
- 20 Highly specialised production as an alternative in economically depressed areas
- the wines of Priorat (Tarragona, Spain) / Joan Tort-Donada 261
- 21 A tale right out of Hollywood
- set in the desert of Almeira, in Spain? / Hugo Capella-Miternique 270
- 22 Globalization and irregular urban growth from a Spanish example / Maria Jose Pineira Mantinan 284
- 23 Sustainability, efficiency and economic success of RICA farm typologies in Italy / Maria Andreoli, Vittorio Tellarini 295
- Part 4 Education and sustainable development
- 24 Higher education as a means to sustainable development in marginal regions / Lennart Andersson, Thomas Blom 315
- 25 The development and implementation of sustainable education
- northern areas, Pakistan / Lucy Jones 335
- 26 Sustainability as seen from marginal regions
- conclusions and summary / Heikki Jussila, Roser Majoral, Bradley Cullen 353.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Published in association with the IGU Commission on Dynamics of Marginal and Critical Regions.
- ISBN:
- 0754618609
- OCLC:
- 47118685
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