The next rural economies: constructing rural place in global economies

This book discusses the future of rural development and the recognition of the growing importance of 'place-based economies' where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments. New understandings of competitiveness and conceptualizations of a new economy underline the importance of making strategic investments in community infrastructure. Doing things, at the local and regional scales, matters and not doing things has consequences. Topics include seasonal economies, amenity migration, IT industries, green energy and transportation developments.

• 1: Introduction: The Next Rural Economiesa: Demographics, Migration, and Immigration
• 2: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed Something:::? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the New Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia
• 3: The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development
• 4: A New Rural North Carolina: Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement
• 5: Connecting Rural and Urban Places: Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wales
• 6: Ontario’s Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation: Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economyb: Emerging Economies
• 7: Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism: Lessons from Ireland
• 8: Value-Added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan’s Fruit Belt
• 9: Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy: Examples from Germany and Canada
• 10: Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region: The Case of Miramichi, New Brunswickc: Rural Policy and Governance
• 11: Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors
• 12: Partnerships, People, and Place: Lauding the Local in Rural Development
• 13: The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside: Stories from Rural Walesd: Rural-Urban Exchange
• 14: Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes
• 15: When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place: The Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France
• 16: Rural Development Strategies in Japane: Renewal in Resource Peripheries
• 17: Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada’s Periphery: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador
• 18: Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development: A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy
• 19: Understanding and Transforming a Staples-Based Economy: Place-Based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada
• 20: Space to Place: Bridging the Gap