Overview
- Analyses rurality and rural imagery from different perspectives
- Presents empirical material collected by using different methodologies
- Deals with different territorial European contexts
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 107)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Living in the Rural: New and Old Actors and Their Visions on Rurality
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Consuming and Representing the Rural
Keywords
- Describing rural Finland
- International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
- Promotion of Schist Villages Network
- Rural Development in Hungary
- Rural In-Migration
- Rural and Urban in Galicia, Spain
- Rural idyll and development
- Rural in Transylvanian contexts
- Rural reconfiguration and restructuring
- Rural tourism
- Rurality in Pousadas de Portugal
- Social perceptions of the rural
- Uses of organic and local foods in Britain
- Uses of organic and local foods in Portugal
- shaping rural areas in 21st Century Europe
About this book
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elisabete Figueiredo is a sociologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Social, Political andTerritorial Sciences – University of Aveiro (UAVR) and Full Researcher at GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies [elisa@ua.pt]. Her principal research interests are rural sociology and rural studies, especially contrasting social representations and imaginaries on rural areas and on rurality; rural development policies and strategies; rural reconfiguration and restructuring processes; rural tourism impacts. She is also interested in environmental sociology and risk studies. She is author and co-author of more than 100 papers, in international and national books and journals. She is the general coordination of the book Rural Plural – Olhar o presente, imaginar o future [Plural Rural – looking at the present, imagining the future] (2011, 100Luz).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shaping Rural Areas in Europe
Book Subtitle: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
Editors: Luís Silva, Elisabete Figueiredo
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6796-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6795-9Published: 02 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8311-8Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6796-6Published: 17 June 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 268
Topics: Human Geography, Regional and Cultural Studies, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sociology, general