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2010

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Rural-Urban Fringe in Canada: Conflict and Controversy

by Kenneth B. Beesley

This volume draws on the work of scholars from across Canada, each dealing with the rural-urban fringe in their own way. Contributors include scholars from Sociology, Geography, Planning, Recreation, Tourism and Rural Development; from senior scholars with decades of experience and younger scholars with new and exciting ideas and perspectives. Through these diverse contributions the chapters collectively address rural-urban fringe zones in Canada as areas of conflict and controversy.

This book is organized into seven parts: Conceptual Perspectives; Population Change; Agriculture; Recreation and Tourism; Community; Planning and Agriculture; and Planning and Development.

ISBN 978-1-895397-82-6

Price $45.00 each or $40.00 (for 5 or more copies)

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Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Change

editors Dick G. Winchell, Doug Ramsey, Rhonda Koster and Guy M. Robinson

This book focuses on three multi-faceted aspects of rural sustainability: farms and farming, the remaking of rural communities and rural spaces, and policy and action in rural development. The research is focused on three global regions: North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Australia. This volume is an important contribution to the literature on rural studies and development.

Chapters are loosely organized into three Parts around research approaches toward the rural across national contexts. The chapters in Part I emphasize the complexity and dynamics of rural social systems in transition, and divergent perspectives of farmers and farming, food production and change. Part II chapters explore structures and models that help frame and understand the dynamics of rural communities, with applications to specific places and contexts. Finally, Part III chapters emphasize rural action and explore the significance of national policies and local actions to identify and address rural resources and change. Finally, we offer a concluding chapter as an assessment of the future of rural geography across national perspectives.

ISBN 978-1-895397-81-9

Price $55.00 or $50.00 (for 5 or more copies)

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2005

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Rural Community Health and Well-Being: A Guide to Action

by Robert C. Annis, Frances Racher and Marian Beattie

This Guide emerged from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded research project that examined the determinants of health of rural populations and communities. It is intended to be a “hands-on” tool that can be used by rural and northern communities, and others, to look at the health and well-being of their communities from a variety of perspectives. Chapters 1-4 provide information, insight and ideas for community development, rural community health and well-being, and processes for community engagement and action. Chapter 5 consists of a number reproducible materials for use by communities.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) underscored the entire project. PAR involves participation in the research by people within communities, drawing on their knowledge and personal experiences to contribute to the research agenda, processes and findings. These community committees spend countless hours partnering with the university researchers to gather information to better understand their communities. They also provided invaluable feedback on the design, structure and content of this Guide.

ISBN 1-895397-78-2

Price $35.00

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2004

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Building for Success: Exploration of Rural Community and Rural Development

by Greg Halseth and Regine Halseth

Change has been a part of rural Canada for a very long time. What is new, however, is that the pace of change is accelerating. Under the pressures which this can generate, rural and small town residents and businesses, as well as public policy makers, are searching for information which can help them make sense of the changes and assess options for revitalization.

This book is divided into three sections. The first includes four chapters which describe facets of rural and small town community and economic development issues. The second section adds four chapters which explore elements of rural economic change. The final section adds five contributions which explore the community and community capacity sides of the rural development equation. Collectively, the chapters make a powerful contribution to our understanding of the changes rural places are experiencing.

The contributors have come together through the efforts of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. The CRRF seeks to link researchers, policy-makers, and rural residents to address the challenges and opportunities of the new rural rural economy and to disseminate information in support of the revitalization of rural Canada.

ISBN 1-895397-77-4

Price $30.00 or $25.00 (for 5 or more copies)

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The Structure and Dynamics of Rural Territories: Geographical Perspectives

by Doug Ramsey and Christopher Bryant

Rural is changing. This change is occurring on many levels, including institutional, cultural, residential, employment, and resource management. While urbanization continues to be a trend, rural persists as place for home, retirement, work, and recreation. The structures that have been responsible for maintaining and enhancing rural areas are also changing. On the one hand for example, tourism is promoted as a new economy, while on the other, rural areas struggle to maintain existing services and heritage elements. Adjacent to, or at least within the commuting sheds of urban centres, rural communities and lands are encroached upon by the shear growth of cities or further a field by those who seek the rural idyll. The role of work is also dynamic across resource sectors. The papers included in this volume address each of these rural topics and issues. They are products of special sessions held at the 2001 and 2002 Annual General Meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). The sessions were organized by the Rural Geography Study Group of the CAG and the International Geographic Union’s Commission of the Sustainability of Rural Systems.

ISBN 1-895397-76-6

Price $25.00 or $20.00 (for 5 or more copies)

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2003

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The New Countryside, Geographic Perspectives on Rural Change

by Kenneth Beesley, Hugh Millward, Brian Ilber and Lisa Harrington

Throughout the developed world, rural areas are in economic, social, and visible transition. Resource industries are typically in decline, while in the orbit of large towns and cities the countryside is increasingly a functional extension of the city: hamlets and villages mushroom into bedroom suburbs, backroads suffer a rash of “exurban” housing, golf-courses take over farmland, and trailer parks or industry blight the landscape. Even beyond commuting range, the countryside is increasingly in thrall to the cities, as land is valued more highly for recreation, tourism, retirement, or natural processes, and less highly for the production of food or fibre.

ISBN 1-895397-75-8

Price $48.00 or $38.00 (for 5 or more copies)

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