Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin: Selected Contributions to the Fifteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions

ISBN-13: 9781138732551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Hutson, John

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade. These communities are in the peripheries of advanced industrial nation-states, such as Canada and supra-national alliances, such as the European Community, yet despite this, there are no easy solutions to the development of these regions. This volume argues that the productive assets of these regions, and how they can be used to sustain household incomes, need to be better understood. The assets need to be converted into products and services and they need to be marketed profitably. The diminshing flow of young people who leave these areas to obtain higher education and who do not return must be turned around and efforts must be concentrated on the creation or strengthening of economic conditions which satisfy the younger generation's employment aspirations, consumer requirements and social needs.

Spis treści

I: New Perspectives on Community Development; 1: Looking to the Land: Regional Imagery, Quality Products and Development Strategy in Marginal Rural Regions; 2: New Public Management and Peripheral Regions; II: The Changing Fortunes of Farming and Fishing in the Economies of Marginal Regions; 3: Reflections on the Swedish Policy Responses to the Fisheries Crash of 1967; 4: How are Young People Coping with Economic Restructuring?; 5: Surviving the Farm Crisis: Ways Forward for Farmers in South West Wales; 6: Strategic Marginalisation and Coping Mechanisms: Farm Households in North West France; III: Resources and Constraints in Community Development; 7: The Problem of the Outsourcing of Service Provision and its Impact on Marginal Regions; 8: Crafts Producers on the Celtic Fringe: Marginal Lifestyles in Marginal Regions?; 9: The Economic Impact of Welsh National Nature Reserves; 10: The Politics of Local Land-Use Planning in Norway; 11: Differing Agendas in Community Development: The Case of Self-Build; 12: Fighting for Survival: A Comparison of Two Irish Community Development Movements; IV: Comparative Perspectives on Marginality and Regionality; 13: Continuity and Change in the Rural Economy: Flexibility as a Tradition; 14: Appropriating the Margins, Creating a Centre: The Group of Seven and the Construction of Canadian National Identity; Conclusion; 15: New Directions in Community Development

O autorze

John Hutson, Reginald Byron