The Rural and Peripheral in Regional Development: An Alternative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415793230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 268 str.

Peter De Souza

Opis

The countryside has sometimes been marginalized in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to engender a scientific and socio-political debate and a re-evaluation of the way in which the concept of the rural, peripheral and marginal is treated in scientific endeavors, in popular presentations and in basic policy elaborations. The book deconstructs the concept of the urban, in order to disqualify the idea of urban-rural, center-periphery comparisons, and ultimately to present an alternative approach and to provide a spark for ongoing discussions.

Spis treści

Preface 1 What is this all about? Introductory positioning, 2 The periphery, the marginal and the rural: conceptual discussion, 3 Theory: limits and potentials, 4 Measure what, with what and what does it represent?, 5 The urban deconstructed, 6 Geographic and demographic structures and processes, 7 Extended definitions: an alternative way to re-analyse, 8 Peripheral economics: some alternative approaches, 9 Economic structures and structural changes, 10 Policy frameworks

O autorze

Peter de Souza is a Doctor of Economics and Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. He has also worked at the universities of Göteborg, Uppsala and Örebro in Sweden, and has worked extensively as a consultant on regional and local development issues. A former member of the International Board of Regional Studies Association and Chairman of its Nordic Section, he is author of Territorial Production Complexes in the Soviet Union (1989) and co-editor of Towards New Nordic Regions (2008) and Regional Development in Northern Europe (2012).