Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415870852 ISBN 13 : 9780415870856

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways. Millions of rural dwellers have found survival increasingly difficult and have fled to urban centres. Others have remained: some retrenching, struggling to just subsist, others attempting to innovatively redefine their place within 'new' rural economies.

Over the past 30 years, rural economies have largely been ignored by policy makers, but recent growing concerns about food security, environmental degradation, climate change, continued rural poverty, and high rates of out-migration have sparked renewed interest in rural regions. Covering a range of geographical and socio-cultural contexts, the case studies in this book draw on actor-oriented in-depth field studies, which provide detailed, locally focused perspectives on the nature of rural livelihoods today. The collection highlights the ways in which rural livelihoods are being redefined, the multiple ways in which rural dwellers draw on distinct social, cultural and environmental resources to formulate their livelihood strategies, and the factors which facilitate or limit their abilities to do so.

This volume will be of interest to development practitioners and policy makers, and scholars working in rural development and economic anthropology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Deborah Sick is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests include smallholder producers, commodity markets, food systems, resource management, and socio-economic change in Latin America, principally in Costa Rica and northern Mexico.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415870852
• ISBN 13: 9780415870856
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Sick Deborah
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible