ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. This chapter provides evidence of a high degree of disparity within rural Europe; as in restricted opportunity structures in the south that limit engagement in pluriactivity. Rodrguez-Pose provides confirmatory evidence when noting how patterns of economic change in the 1980s had divergent regional trajectories in Italy and Spain compared with their nation's performances in the continent as a whole. The chapter examines the effect in divergent attitudes of Britain and France toward environmentally-sensitive farming proposals. Moreover, as Pfau-Effinger identifies in a study of Finland and Germany, link processes of industrialization, when aligned with the agricultural base prior to their genesis, to national divergences in gender differentiation. The chapter explores the context of transnational policy, which clearly reveals a depth of sentiment towards kinds of rurality that differ across the states of Europe.
