Metropolitan Ruralities: 23 (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 23) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785607979 ISBN 13: 9781785607974

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016

Synopsis

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion. However, there is a growing insight that there are limits to the urban expansion into rural areas. Signs of a new position are the awakened interest in the nature, the authentic and the simple way of living among an urban, academically educated middle class, an actual instance of which is the interest in local food but which also is manifested in rural gentrification. However, a more hardcore turn to nature is also discernible in the renewed interest for green lungs and for eco-services more broadly. In the future, local post-fossil energy may be a main concern regarding rural eco-services utilised by urban areas. We can here imagine flows and exchanges that may demand heavy societal regulation and thus be one of the main objects of future democracy. However, despite these developments urban (and rural) policy and planning is still tightly connected to the modern expansion of the urban into the rural. There are signs of new developments and paradigm shifts but these have to be strengthened to lay the ground for rural-urban resilience.

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Edited by Kjell Andersson, Abo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland Stefan Sjoblom Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Leo Granberg, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Peter Ehrstrom, Abo Akademi University, Vaasa, Finland Terry Marsden, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785607979
• ISBN 13: 9781785607974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Andersson Kjell, Sjöblom Stefan, Granberg Leo, Ehrström Peter, Marsden Terry