The Routledge handbook of comparative rural policy

Table of Contents

Prelims
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is rural? What is rural policy? What is rural development policy?
Chapter 2: Comparing ruralities
Chapter 3: What is rural?
Chapter 4: A comparative rural profile across OECD member countries
Chapter 5: Why comparative rural policy studies?
Chapter 6: Policy process theory for rural policy
Chapter 7: Policy outcomes of decentralized public programs
Chapter 8: Co-constructing rural futures
Chapter 9: Territorial capital in rural policy development
Chapter 10: International migration
Chapter 11: Rural immigration and welcoming communities
Chapter 12: The role of women in rural areas
Chapter 13: Rural poverty in a comparative context
Chapter 14: Understanding the dimensions of aging and old age in rural areas
Chapter 15: Rural health and well-being
Chapter 16: Rural policy and the cultural construction of the urban/rural divide in the United States and Europe
Chapter 17: Environmental policy
Chapter 18: The inefficiency of resource policy as a mechanism to deliver rural policy
Chapter 19: The water–energy–food–climate nexus
Chapter 20: Governance of watersheds in rural areas
Chapter 21: Rethinking energy in agricultural and rural areas
Chapter 22: Conventional and alternative agri-food chains
Chapter 23: Building sustainable regional food systems
Chapter 24: Drivers of food losses and their implications for the agro-food chain
Chapter 25: Fish as food
Chapter 26: Public policies affecting community forest management
Chapter 27: Social economy and entrepreneurship in rural areas
Chapter 28: Grounded innovation in the rural bioeconomy
Chapter 29: Innovation, broadband, and community resilience
Chapter 30: Climate change adaptation by farmers
Chapter 31: Rural policy in the United States
Chapter 32: Rural policy in Canada
Chapter 33: Rural policy in Europe
Chapter 34: Rural policy in the Western Balkans
Chapter 35: Peri-urban agricultural policies in Canada and France
Chapter 36: A non-profit as a policy actor?
Chapter 37: Post-Soviet rural areas towards European integration
Chapter 38: “Why local governments?”
Chapter 39: A comparative case study of the Main Street Program in the United States Chapter 40: Community-managed forestry in Palo Seco, Mexico
Chapter 41: Land ownership and land management policies in Norway and Scotland
Chapter 42: Local policies addressing poverty and social exclusion in rural Spain during the recession
Chapter 43: Integral mountain development in Spain
Index

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program. Over this period dozens of scientists from different disciplines but with a common interest in rural issues and policy have collaboratively studied the policies in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

A core element of the book is the idea and practice of comparative research and analysis ? what can be learned from comparisons, how and why policies vary in different contexts, and what lessons might or might not be ?transferable? across borders. It provides skills for the use of comparative methods as important tools to analyze the functioning of strategies and specific policy interventions in different contexts and a holistic approach for the management of resources in rural regions. It promotes innovation as a tool to valorize endogenous resources and empower local communities and offers case studies of rural policy in specific contexts. The book largely adopts a territorial approach to rural policy. This means the book is more interested in rural regions, their people and economies, and in the policies that affect them, than in rural sectors, and sectoral policies per se.

The audience of the book is by definition international and includes students attending courses in agricultural and rural policy, rural and regional studies, and natural resource management; lecturers seeking course material and case studies to present to their students in any of the courses listed above; professionals working in the field of rural policy; policy-makers and civil servants at different levels seeking tools to better understand rural policy both at the local and global scale and to better recognize and comprehend how to transfer best practices.

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