Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints

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

Product Description: Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and concludes that government and non-profit support is essential to help small farmers transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector...read more

Product Description: Whether the prospective buyer is a farmer or rancher looking to expand operations, a sportsman seeking to preserve habitat for wildlife, or a nature enthusiast trying to conserve native flora and fauna, acquiring rural land can be a rollercoaster of exciting and stressful experiences...read more

Product Description: This book examines the factors affecting the demand for agricultural land in the United States and the costs of meeting increasing demand. Originally published in 1982

Product Description: Praise for The Weekender Effect: What happens to paradise when you carve it up into lots and sell it? Bob Sandford writes about it with clarity and a deep love of the places he knows so well. Sandford's story of one town's mutation from a quiet mountain haven to an overcrowded, generic 'outpost of globalization' is essential reading for those who care about community and our last few glorious spaces...read more

Product Description: Reclaiming the Land brings together original investigations of the new generation of rural social movements in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers of diverse political and ideological orientation have used land occupations and other tactics systematically to confront the neoliberal state...read more

Product Description: From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century, thousands of English families made their own place in the sun, without benefit of councils, planners, architects, building societies, or even builders...read more

At a time when people are being made aware of the need to preserve and conserve all things green, the number of homeless in British cities is reaching a new record. As agriculture surpluses increase and the need to restructure the rural economy becomes more apparent the debate on whether to maintain rural housing in villages is becoming one of the most pressing and emotive of social issues. With the widening of this debate, government policy and the present "gentrification" of the British countryside are also brought into question. In "Housebuilding in the Britian's Countryside" he addresses both sides of this debate in depth. He also examines the effects of government policy - the winners and losers - and the reshaping of the rural economy and character. This book intends to provide an analytic perspective in a debate that is becoming increasingly emotional. The book opens with a lucid introduction laying out the framework and the policies that shape the subject and forming a background from which to probe into the deeper issues.

Product Description: In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West...read more

Argues that the mythology of the cowboy should be replaced by new icons reflecting the realities of the modern West, including water shortages, overgrazing, and the need to protect western wildlife and wilderness. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is a lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl, to protect a large part of the landscape as common land, and to enjoy the land productively in an ecologically sustainable way. Based on the practical experience of one New England town, the book urges suburban environmentalists to go beyond preserving open space to actively engaging people with the places where they live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using micro-level data, this text shows that rural Russian households have made significant adaptations to an emerging market economy in just a few years. It focuses on how household capital (household labour, social networks and comunity attachment) effect the economic and psychological adaptation of households to rapid socioeconomic change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Unless action is taken, the developing world will face recurrent problems of food security and conflict. This volume provides a summary and perspective of the field of land resources and suggests improvements needed to conserve resources for future generations. Coverage provides an authoritative review of the resources of soils, water, climate, forests and pastures on which agriculture depends. It assesses the interactions between land resources and wider aspects of development, including population and poverty. It provides a strong critique of current methods of assessing land degradation and placing an economic value on land. It should be read by all involved in rural development, including scientists, economists, geographers, sociologists, planners, and students of development studies. (view table of contents)

Product Description: No one today thinks of Brooklyn, New York, as an agricultural center. Yet Kings County enjoyed over two centuries of farming prosperity. Even as late as 1880 it was one of the nation's leading vegetable producers, second only to neighboring Queens County...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Exceptionally important, one-of-a-kind research report and analysis of fundamental aspects and regional issues concerning the development of European rural areas, especially the rapid changes taking place in European agriculture. The book contains fourteen chapters covering land-use and general environmental problems in Portugal, France, UK, Estonia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, including a chapter on changes in natural landscapes and land use following the Chernolbyl accident...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The concern over groundwater contamination has focused attention on the processes that influence the fate of chemicals in soil water systems. A major concern of groundwater contamination is the passage of these chemcials through the unsaturated zone and the relatively thin cover layers overlying the aquifers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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