ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the ways that European rural environments are being perceived and used in the context of a general decline in agriculture. In particular, we explore how networks – our tool for articulating social capital as an analytical device – serve to link people with places and resources, and with each other. The links of people to places, or environments, can be seen as an extension of the concept of social capital that is generally not remarked upon in the rural development literature.
