Home > Environment & Geography > Geography > Human geography > Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
37%
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future

Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future

          
5
4
3
2
1

Available


Premium quality
Premium quality
Bookswagon upholds the quality by delivering untarnished books. Quality, services and satisfaction are everything for us!
Easy Return
Easy return
Not satisfied with this product! Keep it in original condition and packaging to avail easy return policy.
Certified product
Certified product
First impression is the last impression! Address the book’s certification page, ISBN, publisher’s name, copyright page and print quality.
Secure Checkout
Secure checkout
Security at its finest! Login, browse, purchase and pay, every step is safe and secured.
Money back guarantee
Money-back guarantee:
It’s all about customers! For any kind of bad experience with the product, get your actual amount back after returning the product.
On time delivery
On-time delivery
At your doorstep on time! Get this book delivered without any delay.
Quantity:
Add to Wishlist

About the Book

Chapter 1. What is Shaping Rural Areas in Europe? Introduction; Luís Silva and Elisabete Figueiredo.- Part I. Living in the Rural: New and Old Actors and their Visions on Rurality.- Chapter 2. Running Wild in the Country?: Mobilising Rural In-Migration; Keith Halfacree.- Chapter 3. Translating Ex-Urban Dwellers' Rural Representations into Residential Practices and Rural Futures; María J. Rivera.- Chapter 4. Perceptions and Appropriations of Discourses in the National Park Island of Ons (Galicia, Spain); Juan M. Dabezies and Paula Ballesteros-Arias.- Chapter 5. Having, Loving, Being in the Periphery: Interpretations of Locality in the National Landscape of Koli, Eastern Finland; Eeva Uusitalo and Laura Assmuth.- Chapter 6. Projecting the ''Disadvantaged'': Project Class, Scale Hopping and the Creation of Ruralities; Alexandra Szőke.- Part II. Consuming and Representing the Rural.- Chapter 7. The Pastoral Ideal in Portugal: From Literature to Touristic Practices; Luís Silva.- Chapter 8. Mediating Rurality, History and Exclusivity in Pousadas de Portugal; Marta L. Prista.- Chapter 9. McRural, No Rural or What Rural?: Some Reflections on Rural Reconfiguration Processes Based on the Promotion of Schist Villages Network, Portugal; Elisabete Figueiredo.- Chapter 10. Connecting Food Memories with the Rural: The Case of Portuguese and British Consumers; Mónica Truninger.- Chapter 11. Does the Countryside Still Feed the Country?: Producing and Re-Producing the Rural in Transylvania; Árpád T. Szabó.- Chapter 12. In Search of the Rurban Idyll?: Developing the Residential Rural Areas in Finland; Pilvi Hämeenaho.- Chapter 13. The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi; Maria Kennedy.- Chapter 14. The Rurality Reinvention Discourse: Urban Demands, Expectations and Representations in the Construction of an Urban Rurality Project; Ana M. Fernandes.- Chapter 15. Cross-Cultural Perceptions and Discourses between Rural and Urban in Galicia; Xerardo Pereiro and Santiago Prado.- Chapter 16. Concluding Remarks on Perceived and Lived Ruralities and the Future of Rural Europe; Luís Silva.- Index.


About the Author: Luís Silva, anthropologist, is Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CRIA/FCSHUNL), Lisbon, Portugal [luis.silva98@gmail.com]. His principal research interests include rural dynamics and the anthropology of tourism, focusing specifically on the making of heritage and tourism products in rural areas, as well as on the local impact of tourism and the heritage enterprise. He has published the book Casas no Campo. Etnografia do Turismo Rural em Portugal (Houses in the Countryside. Ethnography of Rural Tourism in Portugal) (Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009), and various papers in journals and books, including Beneath the Surface of the Heritage Enterprise. Governmentality and Cultural Representation of Rural Architecture in Portugal (Ethnologia Europaea 41 (2):39-53).

Elisabete Figueiredo is a sociologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences - University of Aveiro (UAVR) and Full Researcher at GOVCOPP - Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies [elisa@ua.pt]. Her principal research interests are rural sociology and rural studies, especially contrasting social representations and imaginaries on rural areas and on rurality; rural development policies and strategies; rural reconfiguration and restructuring processes; rural tourism impacts. She is also interested in environmental sociology and risk studies. She is author and co-author of more than 100 papers, in international and national books and journals. She is the general coordination of the book Rural Plural - Olhar o presente, imaginar o future [Plural Rural - looking at the present, imagining the future] (2011, 100Luz).


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400767959
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 268
  • Series Title: Geojournal Library
  • Sub Title: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9400767951
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2013 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 571 gr


Similar Products

How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Bookswagon?

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS           
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
Springer -
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book
    Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!