Rural people and communities in the 21st century : resilience and transformation
Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic and environmental roles at a time in which societies are rapidly urbanizing, and the identities of local places are increasingly subsumed by flows of people, information and economic activity across global spaces. However, whil...
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Cambridge, UK :
Polity Press ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Rurality in metropolitan society
- 2. Urbanization and population redistribution
- 3. Understanding community in rural society
- 4. Community institutions in rural society
- 5. Natural resources and social change
- 6. Youth, aging and the life course
- 7. Racial and ethnic minorities in rural areas
- 8. Making a living in rural communities 9. Farms, farmers and farming in contemporary rural society 10. Poverty across rural people and places
- 10. Rural transformations and rural policies for the future