Product Description: This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis. Case studies include analyses of planning and legislation in Britain, The Netherlands, Japan, the U...read more

Product Description: This book, first published in 1983, provided the first thorough and informative introduction to the theory, practice and politics of rural settlement planning. It surveys the conceptual and ideological leanings of those who have developed, implemented and revised rural settlement practice, and gives detailed analysis of planning documentation to assess the extent to which policies have been successfully implemented...read more

Concentrating on people rather than land, this text brings international comparisons into the field of rural planning. Paul Cloke reviews rural problems, and policy responses to these problems, in many countries of the Western world. He also provides a contrasting chapter on the USSR.

Product Description: Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides comparative material on the cultural, political and policy contexts of rural homelessness, examining the nature and scale of the issue and the complex local geographies of rural homelessness...read more

Product Description: In this investigation of planning and policy-making procedures for rural areas, the authors seek to alter our view of the rural planning process by taking account of recent developments in social science theory. Skillfully mixing theory with an empirical case study of Gloucestershire, and supplemented by international perspectives on the role of the state and the operation of the policy process in rural areas, this volume interprets planning as a political activity of the state, and illustrates the constraints imposed by the state on what is practical at the local level...read more