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Author International Seminar on Marginal Regions (14th : 1997 : Inverness, Scotland, and Stornoway, Scotland)

Title Local enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin : selected contributions to the Fourteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions / edited by Reginald Byron and John Hutson
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Editors' Preface; Introduction; Part One: Changing Policies and Perspectives; 1 Supporting Entrepreneurship in Marginal Rural Areas: Experience from the West of Ireland; 2 Quo Vadis Norwegian Regional Policy?; 3 An Organisational Approach to the Development of Regional Dynamism; 4 Resistance, Adaptation and Retrenchment in Marginal Regions; 5 Sleeping on the Mountain: Homelessness on the Margins; 6 Policies to Protect Family Farming in New York State and a Devolved Wales: A Case of Convergence?
Part Two: Evaluating Local Enterprise7 A Strategy for Sustainable Local Development: A Case from the Midwest of Ireland; 8 An Economic Evaluation of the Provision of Countryside Recreational Opportunities: The Grampian Region; 9 The Language Dimension in Local Development: The Case of Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht; 10 Empowering Communities through Community Action in Rural Ireland: The Case of Muintir na Tíre; 11 Enterprise and Resistance in the Celtic Fringe: High-growth, Low-growth, and No-growth Firms
12 Optimising the Contribution of Private Forestry to the Sustainable Development of Rural IrelandPart Three: Local Strategies of Enterprise and Adaptation; 13 Why Do Young People Leave Fishing Communities in Coastal Finnmark, North Norway?; 14 Outports under Threat: Systemic Roots of Social Crisis in Rural Newfoundland; 15 Crofting and CAP Reform; 16 Forestry Resources and Local Sustainable Development in Western Norway; 17 Strengthening Links between Agriculture and Tourism on the Rural Periphery: A Case Study of Southwest Wales
Summary First published in 1999, this volume offers contrasting views from a variety of academic disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, management studies, planning, and sociology, which focus on the single two-fold problem of how to understand these issues and what, practically, might be done about them
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Originally published in 1999 by Ashgate Publishing
Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- North Atlantic Region -- Congresses
Fisheries -- Economic aspects -- North Atlantic Region -- Congresses
Rural industries -- North Atlantic Region -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Economic history
Fisheries -- Economic aspects
Rural industries
Social conditions
SUBJECT North Atlantic Region -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
North Atlantic Region -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Subject North Atlantic Region
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Byron, Reginald.
Hutson, John.
ISBN 0429431910
9780429431913