Rural category: 418 books
by Stacey Chillemi
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Do you know who your child is socializing with outside the home? Are you protecting your child from gang activity through taking positive actions, such as monitoring their activities, fostering close relationships with them, and using positive discipline strategies? Parents play a pivotal role in...
Dragons with Clay Feet?
Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies—China and Vietnam. The contributions to...
People's Livelihood in Contemporary China
Changes, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Since being established in 1949 — and especially since the reform and opening up 30 years ago — China has experienced the most drastic changes ever in its 5000-year history. During this period, China has transformed from an agricultural society into an emerging, dynamic, and industrialized nation...
Culture, Power, and the State
Rural North China, 1900-1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era. The author constructs a prismatic...
Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China
A multitheoretical and multidimensional analysis of successful businesswomen's everyday lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
This book examines the ways in which formal and non-formal education can contribute to women’s successful design, development and operation of small businesses in rural settings. Calling on varied, pertinent social theories, the book examines profitable businesses operated by Dongxiang Muslim women...
Water and Rural Communities
Local Politics, Meaning and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities. The authors argue that the politics of place is given meaning in relation to local knowledges and within multiple and multiscalar...
The New Peasantries
Rural Development in Times of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
When first published in 2008, The New Peasantries revolutionized our ways of thinking of what constitutes the peasantry and repeasantization. It showed how a new era of empire and globalization was creating new forms of peasantry.
This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a reorganization...
Réinventer les campagnes en Allemagne
Paysage, patrimoine et développement rural
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Cet ouvrage prend le parti de traiter de la transformation contemporaine des campagnes dans un cadre national et d'observer les processus actuellement à l'oeuvre, en Allemagne. Comme partout en Europe, les changements socio-économiques impulsés par la société urbaine ont entraîné dans les campagnes...
by Bessière Jacinthe
Language: French
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Dotée de nouveaux rôles – ludique, récréatif, résidentiel, mais aussi environnemental ou paysager –, la ruralité française poursuit sa transformation. Son développement répond à l’affirmation de nouvelles préoccupations sociales auxquelles s’ajoutent une diversité d’acteurs et...
by Armand Frémont
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Les tribulations d’un titre, au cours de dix années de recherche, expriment assez bien comme il peut être malaisé, pour un géographe, de choisir un sujet, de s’y tenir et de le traiter, tellement sont difficiles à cerner les limites et la finalité de notre discipline. J’avais la volonté,...
by Carla Gras, Valeria Hernández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
El campo argentino y la cúpula empresarial agropecuaria ya no pueden entenderse ni discutirse recurriendo a denominaciones como “vieja elite terrateniente” o rentista, o atendiendo al rol de organizaciones tradicionales como la Sociedad Rural. En los últimos cincuenta años se produjo y se consolidó...
by Susan McCorkindale
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don?t mix.
At her husband?s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm,...
by Wes Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
A ringing cry to forge a meaningful connection to the land by a leading voice in the sustainable agriculture movement: “A small book rich in ideas” (New York Times).
The New World―this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth―was to represent a new...
Dardanelle and the Bottoms
Environment, Agriculture, and Economy in an Arkansas River Community, 1819-1970
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Between 1819 and 1970, the town of Dardanelle, Arkansas, located on the south side of the Arkansas River in Yell County, Arkansas, experienced sustained prosperity and growth made possible by the nearby farming community known as the Dardanelle Bottoms.
A reciprocal relationship between the...