Title: Winning and losing : the changing geography of Europe's rural areas /
Authors: Schmied, Doris, 1955-
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Rural development Europe; Agriculture Economic aspects Europe.; Agriculture and state Europe.; Europe Rural conditions.
Abstract: "Bringing together a range of comparative case studies from France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the UK and other countries, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced picture of rural change over the past five decades. It explores which aspects of the European countryside have benefited and which have suffered as a consequence of the often contradictory forces of restructuring."--BOOK JACKET.