| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
GeoJournal Library, 0924-5499 ; v. 107 |
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GeoJournal library ; v. 107.
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| Contents |
What Is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction -- Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo -- Living in the Rural: New and Old Actors and Their Visions on Rurality. Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration / Keith Halfacree -- Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers' Rural Representations into Residential Practices and Rural Futures / María Jesús Rivera -- Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain) / Juan Martín Dabezies, Paula Ballesteros-Arias -- Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland / Eeva Uusitalo, Laura Assmuth -- Projecting the 'Disadvantaged': Project Class, Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities / Alexandra Szőke -- Consuming and Representing the Rural. The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices / Luís Silva -- Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal / Marta Lalanda Prista -- McRural, No Rural or What Rural? -- Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network, Portugal / Elisabete Figueiredo -- Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers / Mónica Truninger -- Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country? Producing and Reproducing the Rural in Transylvania / Árpád Töhötöm Szabó -- In Search of the Rurban Idyll? Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland / Pilvi Hämeenaho -- The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi / Maria Kennedy -- The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project / Ana Matos Fernandes -- Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses Between Rural and Urban in Galicia / Xerardo Pereiro, Santiago Prado -- Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe / Luís Silva |
| Summary |
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography |
| Analysis |
Social sciences |
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Regional planning |
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Human Geography |
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Regional and Cultural Studies |
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Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning |
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Sociology, general |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 2, 2013) |
| Subject |
Rural development -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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Zones rurales.
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Développement rural.
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Zones urbaines.
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Anthropologie.
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Sociologie rurale.
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Géographie.
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Etudes de cas.
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Rural development
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Silva, Luís, 1971-
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Figueiredo, Elisabete.
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| ISBN |
9789400767966 |
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940076796X |
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9400767951 |
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9789400767959 |
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