ABSTRACT
First published in 1999, this volume features articles from 19 contributors on local responses to global integration, with a focus on rural areas and their adoption of new functions as both producers and consumers. It responds to a crisis in the regulatory framework and reconsiders globality, revealing new forms of production and consumption developing in diverse ways amongst these global rural communities. Authors from Australia, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Venezuela are represented.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
Globalization, Diversity and Rural Space
part II|42 pages
Farmers and Farming Women
chapter 5|18 pages
Grounding Globalization Theory
part III|46 pages
Communities and Households
chapter 8|24 pages
Global Changes and Individual Responses in Rural Areas
part IV|94 pages
Local and Regional Development