Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change and Contention in the Rural-Recreational Countryside - Couverture rigide

Halseth, Greg

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0773517294 ISBN 13 : 9780773517295

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Using the Rideau Lakes region of eastern Ontario and the Cultus Lake area of southwestern British Columbia as case studies, Greg Halseth examines the ways in which economic, political, and social power affect community change. He focuses on specific issues, such as residential change, land use planning, property taxation, and social organization. Moving beyond empirical research, Halseth sets the changes occurring in these communities within a broader intellectual context of "community power" and "commodification of the rural idyll." He pays particular attention to how general processes and pressures work themselves out in particular places. Written in an accessible style, Cottage Country in Transition will be of great interest to rural geographers, planners, sociologists, and community researchers as well as to rural residents and cottage owners.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Greg Halseth is professor of geography and Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. Sean Markey is associate professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser Uni

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773517294
• ISBN 13: 9780773517295
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible