Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective

Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective

Author: B Ilbery, Q Chiotti, T Rickard
ISBN: 9780851991658
Pages: 352
Format: 16 X 23.5
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 1997



Readership
Rural geographers and also agricultural economists, rural sociologists and policy-makers concerned with rural studies.

Main Description
This book consists of selected and revised papers from a conference held in North Carolina that brought together rural geographers from Canada, UK and USA, plus one representative from New Zealand. The papers included in the book are those that focus on agricultural restructuring and sustainability. This subject is of considerable current interest at a time when rural areas in developed market economies are undergoing considerable change.
The chapters in the book examine, at various spatial scales, the broad processes and structural changes that are common to all rural systems in developed countries. Different geographical contexts are used to illustrate the uneven development of these processes and the implications for sustainable agriculture and rural systems. Authors provide both literature reviews and original research. The book is aimed at not only rural geographers but also agricultural economists, rural sociologists and policy-makers concerned with rural studies.

Main Contents
SECTION I: Conceptualizing Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability
• Sustainable Development: A Critical Review of Rural Land-use Policy in the UK, R Munton
• Sustainability, Spatial Hierarchies and Land-based Production, C Cocklin, G Blunden and W Moran
• Greening and Globalizing: Agriculture in ‘the New Times’, G Robinson
SECTION II: Family Farming and Farming Culture
• Sustainable Technologies, Sustainable Farms: Farms, Households and Structural Change, R Roberts and G Hollander
• Environmental Change and Farm Restructuring in Britain: The Impact of the Farm Family Life Cycle, C Potter
• The Construction of Environmental Meanings Within ‘Farming Culture' in the UK: The Implications for Agri- environmental Research, C Morris and C Andrews
• Community-level Worldviews and the Sustainability of Agriculture, J M Curry-Roper
SECTION III: Diversification and Alternative Agriculture
• Rural Re-regulation and Institutional Sustainability: A Case Study of Alternative Farming Systems in England, G Clark, I Bowler, A Crockett, B Ilbery and A Shaw
• On and Off-farm Business Diversification by Farm Households in England, B Ilbery, M Healey and J Higginbottom
• Great Plains Agroecologies: The Continuum from Conventional to Alternative Agriculture in Colorado, L A Duram
SECTION IV: Agricultural Sustainability and Climate Change
• Agricultural System Response to Environmental Stress, J Smithers and B Smit
• Adaptability of Agriculture Systems to Global Climate Change: A Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada Pilot Study, M Brklacich, D McNabb, C Bryant and J Dumanski
• Agricultural Response to Climate Change: A Preliminary Investigation of Farm-level Adaptation in Southern Alberta, Q Chiotti, T Johnston, B Smit and B Ebel
SECTION V: Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Policy
• Policy, Sustainability and Scale: The US Conservation Reserve Programme, D Nellis, L Harrington and J Sheeley
• Something Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: The Marriage of Agriculture and Conservation in England, N Evans
• Farmer Reaction to Agrienvironmental Schemes: A Study of Participants in South-West England and the Implications for Research and Policy Development, A W Gilg and M R J Battershill
• Achieving Sustainability in Rural Land Management Through Landowner Involvement in Stewardship Programmes, S Hilts
SECTION VI: Sustainability and Restructuring the Agricultural System
• Scale Change, Discontinuity and Polarization in Canadian Farm-based Rural Systems, M Troughton
• Sustainability Issues in the Industrialization of Hog Production in the United States, O J Furuseth
• Sustainable Agriculture and Its Social Geographic Context in Ontario, G Walker
• Restructuring for Rural Sustainability: Overcoming Scale Conflicts and Cultural Biases, D Napton