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Rural governance : international perspectives / edited by Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey Lawrence.
LIBRA HN49.C6 I57 2007
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Van Pelt Library HN49.C6 I57 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 12.
- Routledge studies in human geography ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Rural development.
- Rural development--Government policy--Case studies.
- Rural development--Government policy.
- Rural development--Political aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: governing the rural / Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence 1
- Part I Managing new forms of governance 19
- 2 Trust and control in farmer-government partnerships: a Dutch case study / Jasper Eshuis 21
- 3 Delineations of private and public: emerging forms of agri-environmental governance in Central and Eastern Europe / Thomas Sikor 37
- 4 Governance and innovations in the Nordic periphery / Nils Aarsaether, Torill Nyseth 51
- 5 Governing rural landscapes and environments: the strategic role of local community and global corporate partnerships / Peter Hoppe, Roy E. Rickson, David Burch 66
- 6 Initiating network governance through competition: experiences from eighteen German regions / Wolfgang Meyer, Sebastian Elbe 81
- 7 Reflexive agency and multi-level governance: mediating integrated rural development in Hungary / Gusztav Nemes, Chris High, Farah Huzair 98
- Part II Contesting government strategies: state policy and local agency 113
- 8 Neo-liberalism, neo-mercantilism and multifunctionality: contested political discourses in European post-Fordist rural governance / Mark Tilzey, Clive Potter 115
- 9 Transformation and representation in Barangay Sibalew, the Philippines / Roberto Saladar, Alison Loveridge 130
- 10 Governance, participation and empowerment: a non-prescriptive approach / Pablo Rodriguez-Bilella 143
- 11 Contested forest: logging the Main River watershed in western Newfoundland, Canada / Peter Sinclair, Honna Janeys-Hodder 160
- 12 Contesting competition: governance and farmer resistance in Australia / Jacqui Dibden, Chris Cocklin 175
- 13 Individualism, cooperation and conservation in Scottish farming communities / Kirsty Blackstock, Katrina Brown, Ben Davies, Peter Shannon 191
- Part III Prospects for democratic governance 209
- 14 Leadership in place: elites, institutions and agency in British rural community governance / Michael Woods, Bill Edwards, Jon Anderson, Graham Gardner 211
- 15 Democratizing governance in Australia's regions: the value of regional networks / Jo-Anne Everingham 227
- 16 Legitimacy, deliberative arenas and the new rural governance / Steve Connelly, Tim Richardson, Tim Miles 245
- 17 Governing bottom-up in rural development: the legitimacy dilemma / Benedikt Korf 259
- 18 Are shadows dark? Governance, informal institutions and corruption in rural India / Chris High, Rachel Slater, S. Rengasamy 273
- 19 Rural governance and power relations: theorizing the complexity of state-citizen interactions / Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence 291.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415399599
- 0203968174
- OCLC:
- 68786724
- Online:
- Publisher description
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