TY - BOOK ID - 8833788 TI - Beyond the rural-urban divide : cross-continental perspectives on the differentiated countryside and its regulation PY - 2009 SN - 9781848551398 1848551398 1280771003 9786613681775 184855138X 1781901554 9781848551381 9781280771002 PB - Bingley, England : Emerald, DB - UniCat KW - Agriculture and state. KW - Farmers. KW - Forest management. KW - Foresters. KW - Forests and forestry -- Social aspects. KW - Rural-urban relations. KW - Communities - Rural Groups KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Forests and forestry KW - Social aspects. KW - Agrarian question KW - Agricultural policy KW - Agriculture KW - State and agriculture KW - Farm operators KW - Operators, Farm KW - Planters (Persons) KW - Forest administration KW - Forest plants KW - Forest resource administration KW - Forest resource management KW - Forest stewardship KW - Forest vegetation management KW - Forestry management KW - Stewardship, Forest KW - Vegetation management, Forest KW - Rural-urban interaction KW - Urban-rural interaction KW - Urban-rural relations KW - Society and forests and forestry KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Administration KW - Economic policy KW - Land reform KW - Agriculturists KW - Rural population KW - Arborists KW - Police, Rural KW - Ecosystem management KW - Natural resources KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Social forestry programs KW - Control KW - Rural-urban relations KW - Rural planning. KW - Rural communities. KW - Social Science KW - Sociology KW - Rural. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8833788 AB - The rural-urban dichotomy is one of the most influential figures of thought in history, laying the foundation for academic disciplines such as rural and urban sociology. The dichotomy rests on the assumption that rural and urban areas differ fundamentally. By the mid-twentieth century, scholars had observed that many rural areas displayed a blend of rural and urban features. Since then, counterurbanisation, urban sprawl and ever-increasing flows of people, goods and ideas between rural and urban areas have blurred the distinctions even further. Attempts to create new rural-urban classification systems, whether based on factors such as population size, density or distances, have largely failed. Clearly, new classification systems must use the meaning of observed changes in rural-urban systems as their point of departure rather than simple measurements of these changes. These meanings can, despite the interdependencies of our global world, be explored only in their political, cultural and economic settings. ER -