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This book provides a cohesive set of research statements on critical related issues in British rural geography, as well as echoing the priorities identified by an influential figure in British rural geography, Richard Munton. This book demonstrates that the rural world needs to be seen in a far wider perspective than that of agriculture/ food production, in order to comprehend how resources are being appraised and exploited in new ways, and to respond to the pressing challenges of sustainability for the decades ahead. Chapters adopt a time perspective to explore a series of key themes: the rise of productivist farming ways of conceptualising agricultural change the evolution of landownership and property rights rural and urban agendas for nature conservation the gap between policy and action for sustainable development. The final set of chapters is devoted to policy-related issues associated with agricultural change and the profound challenge of rural diversification for the future. The last chapter traces the prominent career of Richard Munton.

Product Description: After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War...read more

Product Description: Western Europe provides a balanced appraisal of common characteristics and shared problems of the eighteen states lying to the west of the former Iron Curtain.

Examines the history of London from Roman times to the present, discussing its geography, geology, archaeology, economics, architecture, literature, and more

Product Description: This book examines the regional variations in the European Community and the 'regional policies' implemented by the European Commission and national governments. The contents include a look at the background to current problems in the Community, regional policy, and the changes in social and economic conditions over the past ten years...read more

Product Description: [Clout] has carefully digested the earliest volumes of government-published statistics and with the aid of computer-generated cartography transformed the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of French agriculture midway through the July Monarchy...read more