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"Michael Woods has taken on the formidable task of giving an overview of rural places and society in advanced economies as a single author and has presented a book that rightly deserves to be called state-of-the-art."- Geographische Rundschau "For those students with an interest in rural change, this 'state of the art' book is essential reading." - Brian Ilbery, University of Coventry"With Rural Geography Michael Woods remedies the often underestimated dynamism of rural places and rural society by providing the much-needed synthesis of the European and North American literature on rural restructuring and globalization processes." - Patrick H. Mooney, University of KentuckyRural Geography is an introduction to contemporary rural societies and economies in the developed world. It examines the social and economic processes at work in the contemporary countryside - including the more traditional: like agriculture; land use; and population; as well as wider themes like: rural health, crime, exclusion, commodification, and alternative lifestyles. With a contextualising section defining the rural, the text is organized systematically in three principal sections: Processes of Rural Restructuring, Responses to Rural Restructuring, and Experiences of Rural Restructuring.Using the most recent empirical material, statistical data, and research, the text is global in perspective using comparative examples throughout. Rural Geography is a systematic introduction to the processes, responses, and experiences of rural restructuring.
Hidden Rural Lifestyles: Poverty and Social Exclusion
Hidden Rural Lifestyles: Poverty and Social Exclusion
Introduction
The previous three chapters have highlighted a number of processes and experiences that have contributed to deprivation and poverty in rural areas: problems of access to good quality, affordable housing and the burden of debt placed on many rural households in seeking to pay for property (Chapter 16); problems of the dependency of elderly residents on local services that are being rationalized (Chapter 17); and problems in finding appropriate work that leads to underemployment and a prevalence of low wage employment (Chapter 18). However, this landscape of rural poverty is often hidden. As Furuseth (1998) observes, ‘for most residents of the industrialized world, who live in urban and suburban communities, the term ...
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