The Sustainability of Rural Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction: Sustainability and Rural Systems

      • C. Cocklin, L. Bowler, C. Bryant

      Pages 1-12

3. Interpreting sustainability

   1. Developing Indicators of ‘Sustainability’

      • W. Smith

      Pages 13-34

   2. Nature, Society and Sustainability

      • G. M. Robinson

      Pages 35-57

   3. The ‘Wild’, the Market and the Native: Indigenous Issues in Wildlife Utilisation and Management

      • M. Langton

      Pages 59-80

4. Globalisation, restructuring and sustainability

   1. Globalisation, Food Regimes and ‘Rural’ Networks

      • R. Le Heron

      Pages 81-96

   2. Restructuring Regulation and Sustainability

      • N. Lewis, W. Moran, C. Cocklin

      Pages 97-121

   3. Enterprises and Commodity Chains

      • M. Troughton

      Pages 123-145

5. Environmental imperatives

   1. Conservation and Sustainability

      • M. Tilzey

      Pages 147-168

   2. Sustainable Farming Systems

      • Ian Bowler

      Pages 169-187

   3. Planning for Sustainable Rural Land-Use Systems

      • Hubert van Lier

      Pages 189-210

6. Rurality, community and development

   1. Rural Population and Services: Shifting Prospects for Mutual Sustainability

      • A. Joseph

      Pages 211-223

   2. Sustainable Rural Communities and Rural Development

      • R. Epps

      Pages 225-246

   3. Urban and Rural Interactions and Rural Community Renewal

      • C. Bryant

      Pages 247-269

   4. Conclusion

      • C. Bryant, L. Bowler, C. Cocklin

      Pages 271-274

7. Back Matter

   Pages 275-282

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Economy, society, and environment comprise the three main dimensions of sustainable development but too often they are considered separately. This book, by comparison, examines the interaction of the three dimensions in the context of rural systems, embracing a wide range of topics, including globalisation and reregulation in sustainable food production, conservation and sustainability, the development of sustainable rural communities, and sustainable rural-urban interaction. An international team of geographers, drawn from the International Geographical Union's Commission on The Sustainability of Rural Systems, summarises the basis of unsustainable rural development in these topics, the remedial policies being pursued, and their own evaluations of the policies. Rather than deal just with generalisations, their analyses are illustrated by detailed case studies drawn from a variety of rural systems in both developed and developing countries.

• development
• globalization
• networks
• production
• sustainability

From the reviews:

"Various factors – ranging from the salience of ‘sustainability’ rhetoric in rural policies to the continuing vigour of the IGU Commission Sustainable Rural Systems, from which the present volume originates – suggest that the former may be more likely than the latter. … Most of the contributors are well-known in their respective fields and write with insight and authority. … it is a useful contribution to the literature." (A S Mather, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 171 (3), 2005)

• Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  Ian R. Bowler

• Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  Christopher R. Bryant

• Department of Geography, Monash University, Australia

  Christopher Cocklin

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