UID:
almafu_9959245218102883
Format:
1 online resource (359 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-78560-796-0
Series Statement:
Research in rural sociology and development, v. 23
Content:
During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of living among an urban, academically educated middle class, an actual instance of which is the interest in local food but which also is manifested in rural gentrification. However, a more hardcore turn to nature is also discernible in the renewed interest for green lungs and for eco-services more broadly. In the future, local post-fossil energy may be a main concern regarding rural eco-services utilised by urban areas. We can here imagine flows and exchanges that may demand heavy societal regulation and thus be one of the main objects of future democracy. However, despite these developments urban (and rural) policy and planning is still tightly connected to the modern expansion of the urban into the rural. There are signs of new developments and paradigm shifts but these have to be strengthened to lay the ground for rural-urban resilience.
Note:
Includes index.
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Front Cover; Metropolitan Ruralities; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Appendices; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Challenging the Modernisation Paradigm; Counter-Urbanisation; New Urban Strategies; Metropolitan Ruralities as a Space in, and for, Itself; Protection and Regulatory Systems; Collaborative Governance, Public Sector Engagement and Economic Growth; Rural-Urban Relations as the New Regulatory Hot Spot; Further Need of Collaborative Governance; An Outline for the Volume
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Current Trends: Sprawl, Counter-Urbanisation, Discursive Reorientation and Signs of ProgressReferences; Further Reading; Part I: Urban Sprawl; Chapter 2 Neither Urban nor Rural: Urban Growth, Economic Functions and the Use of Land in the Mediterranean Fringe; Introduction; A Paradigmatic Study Area; Urban Expansion and Changes in the Use of Land; Agricultural Changes in Athens' Metropolitan Region; Mediterranean Cities and Peri-Urban Landscape: Reframing a Complex Nexus; Urban Morphology and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Contributions from Southern Europe; Conclusions; References
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Chapter 3 The Rural-Urban Dynamics and the Swedish-Speaking Finns. Challenges and Opportunities for a Regionally Based Ethnic GroupIntroduction; Conceptual and Operational Issues; Demographic Trends in a Nordic Context and Their Significance for the Swedish-Speaking Regions; Materials and Methods; Characteristics of and Trends in the Swedish-Speaking Regions over the Past Three Decades; Mobility in Swedish Finland; Concluding Discussion; Notes; References; Further Reading; Appendix A: Population Change 2003-2013; Appendix B: Ostrobothnia, Åboland, Nyland; Part II: Rurbanisation
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Chapter 4 Long Wave of Rural Research from Combating Poverty to Sustaining EcosystemsArticle I. Rural-Urban Duality; Article II. Evolution of Countryside; Article III. The Long Wave of Rural Research; Section III.1 Birth of Rural Sociology; Section III.2 From Modernisation Research to Environmental Questions; (a) Modernisation; (b) Critical Research; (c) Rural Studies; (d) Evolution of Research Institutes; (e) Evolution of Scientific Diet on Rural Research; Article IV. New Countryside as a Lost Paradise; Section IV.3 Construction of New Rurality; Section IV.4 Chaos in the Global Food Market
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(f) Changing Structures and New Farm Owners(g) Challenge of Bioenergy; Section IV.5 Social Problems Unsolved; Section IV.6 Ecosystem Wounded; Article V. Rural-Urban Relationship Revisited; Section V.7 Greenhouse Rationalism; Section V.8 Trans-Rurban Rurality; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5 Relations and Areas of Interaction between Landowners in a Peri-Urban Area; Introduction; Connections between Social Interaction and Land Management; Lack of Interaction - Potential Conflicts; Interaction - Social Influence; Egocentric Networks and the Concept of Homophily
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Classification of Landowners in Land-Use/Landscape Studies
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78560-797-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
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