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Rural governance : international perspectives / edited by Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins and Geoffrey Lawrence.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cheshire, Lynda.
Higgins, Vaughan, 1974-
Lawrence, Geoffrey.
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

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