ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Looking across different international experiences – from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging economies, including BRIC and former communist states – it aims to develop new conceptual propositions and theoretical insights, supported by detailed case studies and reviews of available data. The Companion gives coverage to emerging topics in the field and seeks to position rural planning in the broader context of global challenges: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, food and energy security, and low carbon futures. It also looks at old, established questions in new ways: at social and spatial justice, place shaping, economic development, and environmental and landscape management. Planning in the twenty-first century must grapple not only with the challenges presented by cities and urban concentration, but also grasp the opportunities – and understand the risks – arising from rural change and restructuring. Rural areas are diverse and dynamic. This Companion attempts to capture and analyse at least some of this diversity, fostering a dialogue on likely and possible rural futures between a global community of rural planning researchers.
Primarily intended for scholars and graduate students across a range of disciplines, such as planning, rural geography, rural sociology, agricultural studies, development studies, environmental studies and countryside management, this book will prove to be an invaluable and up-to-date resource.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Concepts and foundations
chapter 6|11 pages
Production, consumption and protection
chapter 8|10 pages
Legal enforcement of spatial and environmental injustice
part II|54 pages
The state and rural governance
chapter 9|11 pages
Rurality and multi-level governance
chapter 13|11 pages
The dark side of community
part III|84 pages
Planning for the rural economy
chapter 18|9 pages
The creative class doing business in the countryside
part IV|78 pages
Social change and planning
part V|40 pages
Planning the inclusive countryside
part VI|76 pages
Rural settlement, planning and design
chapter 36|10 pages
Contours and challenges of rural change in transition economies
part VII|86 pages
Landscape, amenity and the rural environment
chapter 41|16 pages
Rediscovering the rural–urban fringe
part VIII|86 pages
Energy and resources
part IX|42 pages
Reflections and futures