Rural Communities

A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompa...

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year If you...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home inSan Francisco, and plenty of...

The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a radical new approach to higher education in Cuba, as the country began slowly to recover from th...

Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democr...

The rural is not what it used to be. No longer simply a site for agricultural production for the city, the relationship between the rural and urban...

49% of the worlds population lives in small towns, villages and farms, yet until recent years criminological scholarship has focused almost exclusi...

Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global nort...

This collection presents creative strategies and programs designed to address needs of families in the context of rural communities. Even before th...

Most of Indonesian population live in rural areas, and the majority of poor people also live in rural areas, namely 13.47% in rural and 7.26 in urb...

Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalis...

Bringing a unique rural lens to the analysis of dark tourism in Australia, this book covers a range of sites including convict museums, sites of se...

AIDS epidemics continue to threaten the livelihoods of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Three decades after the disease was first recogniz...

China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and...

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government t...

A new approach to rural development is emerging. Instead of being about attracting companies that might create jobs over which communities have no ...