ABSTRACT

First published in 1997, this timely collection of papers takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining sustainable development in a wide range of countries such as Ireland, Norway and Wales on the North Atlantic Margin. It features specialists in geography, social anthropology, tourism, sociology, regional studies, business, municipality studies, health policy and the rural economy. The contributors argue that a free marketplace and natural-resource sustainability are not always incompatible for green policies to be successful.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

Development from below

An assessment of recent experience in rural Ireland

chapter 2|19 pages

Sustainable rural development

Concepts, practice and policy

chapter 4|23 pages

Municipal reform

A prerequisite for local development?

part Four|2 pages

Sustainable Development of Agricultural Communities

chapter 16|17 pages

Farm diversification and sustainability

The perceptions of farmers and institutions in the west of Ireland

chapter 19|18 pages

Addressing the sustainability of rural populations

Migration trends in the Republic of Ireland, 1971-1991
Edited ByMary Cawley