Policies and plans for rural people : an international perspective

✍ Scribed by Cloke, Paul J

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Series: Routledge revivals
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major problems faced within rural areas, and policy responses to these problems. Each study deals with the political and institutional frameworks involved in the management of rural areas and the means by which policies have been implemented. With an introduction from Paul Cloke that places rural policies an.  Read more...

Abstract: This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major problems faced within rural areas, and policy responses to these problems. Each study deals with the political and institutional frameworks involved in the management of rural areas and the means by which policies have been implemented. With an introduction from Paul Cloke that places rural policies an

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Policies and Plans for Rural People
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Preface
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of tables
1 Introduction: Planning, policy making and state intervention in rural areas
Introduction
Problems and rural people
The state, planning and intervention
The case studies
2 Britain
The political climate of rural areas
Changes and problems in rural areas
Formal policies for farm populations
Statutory planning policies for rural people
Community and development policies for rural people. Policy, planning and implementation3 The Netherlands
Problems of rural areas
Agencies and tiers of government: their interrelations
Policy content
Impact of policy: problems of implementation
Political culture
Local implementation
Conclusions
4 Scandinavia
The Scandinavian rural legacy
Rural development problems: inherent and man-made
The new orientation: regional policies and plans as a development from above
Results of regional policies and regional planning
Rural policies and planning on the threshold of the 1990s: some new tendencies
Conclusion
5 France. Rural policies and plans in contextAgricultural reforms
Area-based plans
Recent schemes for rural revival
Prospect
6 The USSR
The historical context of rural policy
Restructuring the rural settlement network
Planning the 'socialist village'
Rural issues and conflicts
7 The USA
Introduction
Major issues in rural regions
Inadequacy of federal and state policies
The politics of rural policy and planning
Techniques for rural policy and planning
Statutory planning issues
Concluding comments
8 Canada
Rural Canada in perspective
Rural planning from the top down. Community-based rural planningReprise and prospect
9 Australia
Rural development programmes
Tariff compensation
balance of payments and agricultural support programmes
Rural adjustment programmes
Service provision in rural areas
Equity goals instead of development goals
Social justice issues
Rural planning
10 New Zealand
Geographical and economic background
The rural population associated with farming
The non-farming rural population
Conclusions
11 Conclusions: Rural policies --
responses to problems or problematic responses?
Scale and diversity
Communality of problems. Comparability of planning and policy responsePlanning as a state function
Index.

✦ Subjects

Rural development -- Cross-cultural studies.;RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.;Rural development.