Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global CountrysideISBN: 978-1-4051-6241-8
Paperback
176 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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This book focuses attention upon rural social policy and welfare
issues within selected areas in the US, Australia, continental
Europe and Britain as well as in countrysides within less
industrialised India and Mexico. This edited collection adds to 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