Introduction: Natural resource management for rural sustainable development / Karl Bruckmeier and Hilary Tovey -- UK : sustainable livelihoods on the Island of Skye / Hilary Talbot, Lorna Dargan and Mark Shucksmith -- Sweden : the non-agricultural rural economy as a component of rural sustainable development / Karl Bruckmeier and Christina Höj Larsen -- Poland : diversification and different contexts of knowledge : the case of Polish rural areas / Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula, Andrzej Pilichowski and Paweł Starosta -- Czech Republic : regional disparities and their influence on sustainable rural development : a comparison of two different regions / Věra Majerová -- Hungary : nature and culture : resource management and knowledge use in a Hungarian micro-region / Bernadett Csurgó, Imre Kovách and Boldizsár Megyesi -- Italy : practical knowledge and institutional mediation in a controversial case of clam farming / Giorgio Osti and Francesco Silvestri -- Ireland : ecologizing rural Ireland? Conflicts and contradictions regarding knowledge for sustainable development / Hilary Tovey -- Norway : interpretations of sustainability related to designated areas : a Norwegian example / Karoline Daugstad -- Germany : nature conservation and bio-diversity in the Northeast / Rosemarie Siebert and Lutz Laschewski -- Poland : designing nature and resource management strategies / Krzysztof Gorlach, Tomasz Adamski and Marta Klekotko -- Portugal : natural resources, sustainability and rural development / Isabel Rodrigo and José Ferragolo da Veiga -- Greece : knowledge forms and sustainable management of natural resources in Lake Plastiras / Charalambos Kasimis [and others] -- Innovation in rural development and rural sustainable development / Hilary Tovey, Karl Bruckmeier and Robert Mooney -- Conclusion: Beyond the policy process : conditions for rural sustainable development in European countries / Karl Bruckmeier and Hilary Tovey.
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Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries. In doing so, it identifies key trends and reveals the changing nature of development processes on the way towards a knowledge society.
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Rural sustainable development in the knowledge society.
Agricultural ecology-- Europe, Case studies.
Environmental policy-- Europe, Case studies.
Rural development-- Europe, Case studies.
Sustainable development-- Europe, Case studies.
Agricultural ecology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
Environmental policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.