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  • Consuming Interests

    The Social Provision of Foods

    Combining theory, research and policy Consuming Interests provides a topical interdisciplinary exploration into the nature of food provision, policy and regulation. The book provides a detailed examination of corporate retailers, state agencies and consumer organisations involved in the food sector. The analysis explores questions including: * what can the public expect from the state* what limits ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Rural Restructuring

    Global Processes and Their Responses

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume discusses the broad theme of rural restructuring looking at the nature of rural related responses to global processes of change. This book provides global viewpoints which show readers a more integral and critical analysis on rural areas based on the changing realities of the 1990s. ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Places

    Addressing Social Inequality and Environmental Crisis

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.The authors suggest that ‘place’ is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainable Food Systems

    Building a New Paradigm

    Edited by Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework. Building on over ten years of ESRC funded theoretical and empirical research centered at ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Agri-Food and Rural Development

    Sustainable Place-Making

    Series series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
    The agri-food and rural development world has experienced significant changes in recent years. The evolution towards globalized and highly complex food supply systems has been accompanied by growing competition, reduced state subsidies as well as concerns about quality, output and the environment. At the beginning of the 21st century, the agri-food industry is urgently searching for new solutions ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Reconstituting Rurality

    The second in the "Restructuring Rural Areas" series, this work presents an examination of the way in which the rural, and the concept of rurality is being reconstructed within urban regions.; It argues that the rural is not a fixed category but the outcome of political, economic and socio- cultural pressures. These pressures are exacerbated in southeast England - an area dominated by London and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Nature

    Edited by Terry Marsden ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Nature offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences.The three volumes are divided into the following parts:INTRODUCTION TO THE HANDBOOKNATURAL AND SOCIO-NATURAL VULNERABILITIES: INTERWEAVING THE NATURAL & SOCIAL SCIENCESSPACING ... Read more

    $402.29 USD

  • Rural Enterprise

    Shifting Perspectives on Small-scale Production

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
    Originally published in 1991. The focus of the contributions in this book concentrate on the relationships between rurality and small-scale production. The contributors explore the diversity and significance of rural small-scale production in different countries and the regional disciplinary theoretical discourses which inform research. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Technological Change and the Rural Environment

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Rural Change
    Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation. The book discusses these problems and other issues such as how rural environments in many developed and developing countries have been transformed by a technological revolution. Looking at a diverse range of topics from ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Differentiated Countryside

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers, environmentalists, developers and local residents.Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Condition of Sustainability

    This book examines the political economy of sustainable development. The authors consider why most approaches to sustainable development have proved inadequate. Bringing together key ideas from social theory, food regimes and sustainability debates, the book presents a new and more dynamic way of thinking about sustainable development and a methodology for applying these ideas. Case study material ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Constructuring The Countryside

    An Approach To Rural Development

    As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing, they place research into rural studies much more firmly than hitherto in the mainstream of social science ... Read more

    $72.99 USD