Rural sustainable development in the knowledge society
By: [edited] by Karl Bruckmeier and Hilary Tovey.
Contributors: Bruckmeier, Karl, 1952-; Tovey, Hilary.
Series: Perspectives on rural policy and planning
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.; Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780754674252
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Europe -- Case studies; Environmental policy -- Europe -- Case studies; Rural development -- Europe -- Case studies; Agricultural ecology -- Europe -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: UK : sustainable livelihoods on the Island of Skye / Hilary Talbot, Lorna Dargan and Mark Shucksmith; title: Sweden : the non-agricultural rural economy as a component of rural sustainable development / Karl Bruckmeier and Christina Höj Larsen; title: Poland : diversification and different contexts of knowledge : the case of Polish rural areas / Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula, Andrzej Pilichowski, Paweł Starosta; title: Czech Republic : regional disparities and their influence on sustainable rural development : a comparison of two different regions / Věra Majerová; title: Hungary : nature and culture : resource management and knowledge use in a Hungarian micro-region / Bernadett Csurgó, Imre Kovách, Boldizsár Megyesi; title: Italy : practical knowledge and institutional mediation in a controversial case of clam farming / Giorgio Osti and Francesco Silvestri; title: Ireland : ecologizing rural Ireland? conflicts and contradictions regarding knowledge for sustainable development / Hilary Tovey; title: Norway : interpretations of sustainability related to designated areas : a Norwegian example / Karoline Daugstad; title: Germany : nature conservation and bio-diversity in the Northeast / Rosemarie Siebert and Lutz Laschewski; title: Poland : designing nature and resource management strategies : cases from Poland / Krzysztof Gorlach, Tomasz Adamski, Marta Klekotko; title: Portugal : natural resources, sustainability and rural development / Isabel Rodrigo, José Ferragolo da Veiga; title: Greece : knowledge forms and sustainable management of natural resources in Lake Plastiras / Charalambos Kasimis ... [et al.]; title: Innovation in rural development and rural sustainable development / Hilary Tovey, Karl Bruckmeier, Robert Mooney.