Product Description: This book, originally published in 1987, provides an integrative, analytical aproach to rural areas in advanced economies. Causation and the consequences of societal change have been emphasised, in a framework which draws out processes which oeprate at different geographical scales (and with varying intensities across space)...read more

Product Description: Sir Robert Anderson was an Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan police, as well as a theologian and writer.  Anderson’s best known works include The Coming Prince and The Silence of God.

Product Description: This book describes on-the-ground realities of policy making in China in the field of land development and illustrates how a rigid central planning system works in practice. Among other things, it highlights the difficulty of China's current political system in promoting economic efficiency and distributive justice at the same time...read more

An engrossing account of rural society, economics and design. Covers the modern argicultural revolution--its development and government policies. Discusses urbanization of rural communities, depopulation, planning for conservation, services and development. Packed with figures, tables and plates.

Product Description: Alfred Edersheim was a Jewish convert to Christianity who wrote a massive multi-volume tome on the history of the Bible. From the preface: "One of the most marked and hopeful signs of our time is the increasing attention given on all sides to the study of Holy Scripture...read more

Product Description: Magic. Mystery. Sizzling Encounters. The past and present meet, a lover's secret is revealed and doors to forbidden places open as the Shadowstone's power awakens. Rebecca had no clue she was being pursued by otherworldly beings, until a man claiming to be her guardian whisks her away from imminent peril...read more

Product Description: This book, first published in 1985, provides an overview of resource management, together with a geographical treatment of physical, landscape and social resources. Drawing on British, European and North American material, the book has three main objectives: to offer an integrated review of the rural resource system, to isolate potential and actual conflicts between resources in the countryside with the aid of detailed case studies, and to explore various broad management techniques and their applicability to differing types of resource use and resource conflict...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.

 -- Charts the deep, diverse history of the largest continent   A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia"--India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia--from the earliest times to the present.   Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book uses an engaging, lively tone to chronicle the complex political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area. Popular because of its scope and coverage, as well as its illustrations, maps, and many boxed primary sources, the new edition of A History of Asia continues as a leader in its field.  

This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis and soil, water, and land planning. Directed toward graduate students and professionals, it provides a source of information and concepts for those concerned with land and water policies and practice. It presents an integrated approach using practical and applicable models and methods and takes a middle position between an elementary conceptual approach to land and water management and a highly mathematically advanced treatise based exclusively on system modeling. The book is based on almost twenty years of experience in teaching a course on rural planning and the environment, the authors being specialists from universities, research institutions and companies in Europe and North America.

Product Description: The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent years, not least in its failure to fulfil even minimum goals. First published in 1991, Development in Practice explores the reasons for this projects failure, and looks at the lessons to be learned from this experience for development in general...read more

Product Description: Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, Third Edition, has been revised and repackaged as a comprehensive textbook on Rural Development and Planning. This book is primarily targeted at graduate and post-graduate students of Rural Development, Agricultural Policy and Planning and Rural Management...read more

Product Description: As the importance of public participation in decision-making relating to planning in both urban and non-urban landscapes has increased in recent years, there has been a significant expansion in the body of research into effective participatory methods, including visualisation...read more

Product Description: Providing an overview of rural (spatial) planning for students on planning, geography and related programmes, this book charts the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the British countryside, its landscape, its communities and its economies in the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Written by authors with both academic and practical experience, this book provides readers with an in-depth examination and balanced overview of current rural housing policy. Following the publication of the Rural White Paper in November 2000 there has been a plethora of rural housing policy statements and innovative policy initiatives in the UK...read more

Product Description: A look at the changing culture and evolution of the American West through the perspective of ranching.

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This volume is the result of an international comparative research project entitled "The Future of Rural Communities in Industrialized Societies". The presentation of national studies led to discussions on the methods of local studies, on their theoretical basis and on their scientific and practical use. It is these discussions which are featured in this book. The national studies themselves are now published by Pergamon Press in volumes I and II of Rural Community Studies in Europe, with a third volume to come.