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The radical transformation that Spanish rural areas have experienced in the past few decades suggest, as it has occurred in many OECD countries, a new approach to rural policy. Spain has recently undertaken a major reform of its rural policies, including the merger of the Ministry of Agriculture with the Ministry of the Environment and the recently approved Law on Sustainable Development of Rural Areas.  This new framework creates a multi-sectoral and place-based “rural policy of state”, making Spain better equipped to address the challenges and opportunities of rural areas. This report – undertaken at the same time as the reforms were being implemented – will interest both policy makers engaged in similar reform processes and others working on issues such the “political economy” of reforms, rural tourism, renewable energies, rural clusters, development of peri-urban areas and public service delivery in remote rural areas.

Rural development --- Développement rural --- Government policy --- Politique gouvernementale --- Spain --- Espagne --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales --- Government policy. --- Rural conditions. --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects

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A key, intensifying change affecting rural areas in the last few decades has been a decline in the proportion of national populations whose principal livelihood is farming. The corresponding re-distribution of population has typically resulted in a net population loss to rural areas, and diversification of rural activity. The corporatization and technological modification of food production has prompted new policy challenges, and has bound rural and urban populations together in new relationships articulated in moral discourses of custodianship, food safety, and sustainability. Contributors to this volume came together in the attempt to stimulate collective insight into trends of rural change in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The first two countries have been characterised by avowedly ǹeoliberal' rural policy "with considerable departures from it in practice; Europe, on the other hand, by a mix of policy measures which attempt to integrate land management and sustainability, diversification and maintenance of a competitive farming sector within an overarching policy framework more overtly, though only partially, oriented towards sustaining rural society. Aiming to build on research relating to the character of rural transitions, this volume offers substantive and critical contributions to the understanding of the sources of unpredictability, instability, and continuity, that underpin rural transition. The papers explore changes and continuities in policy, the governance of rural spaces, technological developments relating to rural areas and populations, and social forms of subjectivation and participation in increasingly diverse rural settings.

Sociology, Rural. --- Sociology, Rural --- Rural development --- Social policy --- Rural conditions --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Rural Groups --- Rural development. --- Social policy. --- Rural conditions. --- Rural life --- National planning --- State planning --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Rural sociology --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Social history --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Sociology

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.In Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists, Beatrice Craig examines and describes this economy from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling of food to new settlers, and of ton timbre to Britain. Craig vividly portrays the role of wives who sold homespun fabric and clothing to farmers, loggers, and river drivers, helping to bolster the community. The construction of saw, grist, and carding mills, and the establishment of stores, boarding houses, and taverns are all viewed as steps in the development of what the author calls "homespun capitalists." The territory also participated in the Atlantic economy as a consumer of Canadian, British, European, west and east Indian and American goods. This case study offers a unique examination of the emergence of capitalism and of a consumer society in a small, relatively remote community in the backwoods of New Brunswick.

Rural development --- Capitalism --- Développement rural --- Capitalisme --- History --- Histoire --- Madawaska (N.B. : County) --- Madawaska (N.-B. : Comté) --- Economic conditions --- Conditions économiques --- HISTORY --- Canada / General --- Business & Economics --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- Economic History --- Canada --- History & Archaeology --- New Brunswick --- Rural conditions --- Développement rural --- Madawaska (N.-B. : Comté) --- Conditions économiques --- Market economy --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Nouveau-Brunswick --- Madawaska Co., N.B. --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Rural conditions. --- E-books --- History.

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History of Europe --- anno 1200-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Agricultural banks --- Agricultural credit --- Agricultural lending --- Banques agricoles --- Credit [Agricultural ] --- Credit agricole --- Credit foncier --- Farm credit --- Farm loans --- Land credit --- Landbouwkrediet --- Warrants [Agricultural ] --- Rural credit --- Rural development --- Crédit rural --- Développement rural --- History. --- Histoire --- Europe, Western --- Europe de l'Ouest --- Rural conditions --- Conditions rurales --- History --- Rural credit. --- Rural development. --- Plattelandseconomie. --- Krediet. --- Landwirtschaft. --- Kreditwesen. --- Europe, Western. --- Noordwest-Europa. --- Nordwesteuropa. --- 338 <09> --- Economische geschiedenis --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Crédit rural --- Développement rural --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Credit --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Rural credit - Europe, Western - History --- Rural development - Europe, Western - History --- Agriculture --- Crédit --- Aspect économique

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Food consumption --- Food industry and trade --- Rural development --- Sustainable development --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Development Studies --- Rural Development --- -Rural development --- -Food consumption --- -Food industry and trade --- -Small business --- -338.439 <4> --- 911.373 --- 351.778.2 --- Businesses, Small --- Medium-sized business --- Micro-businesses --- Microbusinesses --- Microenterprises --- Small and medium-sized business --- Small and medium-sized enterprises --- Small businesses --- SMEs (Small business) --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Food preparation --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Consumption of food --- Cost and standard of living --- Food supply --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Congresses --- Economie van de voedselproductie. Economie van de voedingsindustrie.--Europa --- Studie van landelijke vestigingen. Geografie van landelijke vestigingen. Plattelandsgeografie --- Voedselbevoorrading --- Size --- Citizen participation --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Rural Development. --- 351.778.2 Voedselbevoorrading --- 338.439 <4>