Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global CountrysideISBN: 978-1-4051-6241-8
Paperback
176 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Analyses rural social policy and welfare issues within selected
areas in continental Europe and Britain, US, and Australia as well
as in countrysides within less industrialised India and
Mexico
- Builds on the new genre of geopolitical and socio-economic
rural transnational studies
- Discusses the multi-dimensional factors affecting rural space,
socio-political urban-rural power relations, conflicting
urban-rural tensions and opposed values
- Adds to the existing studies of contemporary urban-rural dialogue, in respect of social policy and rural welfare in a changing global countryside