Rural planning and management / edited by Joe Morris ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Rural challenge: European perspectives - social welfare in rural Europe, Mark Shucksmith et al, rural employment in industrialized countries, John Bryden and Ray Bollman, regulating the new rural spaces - the uneven development of land, Philip Lowe et al, agricultural liberalization in the European Union - an analysis of the implications for nature conservation, Clive Potter and Philip Goodwin; developing country perspectives - rural development strategies in low income countries - poverty reduction, productivity gains and decentralization, Deryke Belshaw, household strategies and rural livelihood diversification, Frank Ellis. Part 2 Concepts and approaches: property rights - private property rights and presumptive policy entitlements - reconsidering the premises of rural policy, Daniel W. Bromley and Ian Hodge, property rights as policy tools for sustainable development, Keith D. Wiebe and Ruth Meinzen-Dick; social capital - social capital as natural capital - a comparative analysis of land tenure and natural resource management in Guatemala, Elizabeth G. Katz; natural capital - natural and reproducible capital and the sustainability of land use in the UK, Martin Whitby and W. Neil Adger; conservation planning - landscape ecology and countryside planning - vision, theory and practice, Paul Selman, a scale-independent, site conservation planning framework in the nature conservancy, Karen A. Poiani et al; market led approach - seven steps to market - the development of the market-led approach to countryside conservation and recreation, Kevin D. Bishop and Adrian A.C. Phillips; development and environment - the environment and structural adjustment - lessons for policy interventions in the 1990s, Michael Redclift, market liberalization and environmental assessment in developing and transitional economies, Colin Kirkpatrick and Norman Lee. Part 3 Rural sector issues: agriculture - the challenge of sustainability at the farm level - presidential address, Paul Webster, European features for sustainable development - a contribution to the dialogue, Jan Diek van Mansvelt and Jessie A. Mulder, the promising spread of sustainable agriculture in Asia, Jules Pretty and Rachel Hine, environmental stewardship in UK agriculture - a comparison of the environmentally sensitive area programme and the countryside stewardship scheme in South East England, Matt Lobley and Clive Potter, assessing the success of agri-environmental policy in the UK, Nick Hanley et al; protected areas - protected for ever? factors shaping the future of protected areas policy, Kevin Bishop et al, problems of wildlife management and land use in Kenya, Cleophas Lado; forestry - the role of forestry in meeting planning objectives, Paul Selman, from wasteland to wonderland - opencast mining, regeneration and the English national forest, Paul Choke et al, conserved to death - are tropical forests being overprotected from people?, David Wood; energy - biomass energy in Western Europe TOC

This volume presents writings which explore the key issues in the debate on the management of the rural environment for sustainable development. It demonstrates that, whilst there are convergences on the approaches to sustainable development, local solutions need to be found.

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Shaharima Parvin