Challenging welfare issues in the global countryside
By: edited by George Giacinto Giarchi.
Contributors: Giarchi, George Giacinto, 1930-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781405162418
Subjects: Sociology, Rural; Rural conditions
Other titles: Social policy & administration.
Notes: "First published as Volume 40, No. 6 of Social Policy and Administration."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Redefining the "rural question" : the new "politics of the rural" and social policy / Michael Woods; title: Rural movements in Europe : Scandinavia and the accession states / Vanessa Halhead; title: Market-based governance and the challenge for rural governments : US trends / Mildred E. Warner; title: Between decentralized planning and neo-liberalism : challenges for the survival of the indigenous people of Kerala, India / Darley Jose Kjosavik and Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam; title: Child health in rural Mexico : has progress reduced children's morbidity risks?; title: Maria C. Huerta; title: Rurality and social inclusion : a case of preschool education / Mark Shucksmith, Janet Shucksmith, and Joyce Watt; title: Global industries and inclusive rural development / Robyn Eversole and John Martin; title: Older people "on the edge" in the countrysides of Europe / George Giacinto Giarchi; title: Spinning the rural agenda : the countryside alliance, fox hunting, and social policy / Alison Anderson.