This prescient book discusses the importance of reducing the environmental impacts of economic growth in agricultural regions. It examines the relationship between efforts to achieve economically viable food production in marginal and peripheral inland areas and the demand for environmental quality in rural districts.
Expert authors examine rural development from a sustainability perspective, illustrating how improved living conditions depend not only on economic growth, but also on the fair distribution of wealth. With a specific focus on Europe, they combine theoretical, qualitative and empirical analysis to explore local sustainable trajectories within rural contexts. Chapters delve into comparative case studies, exercises and advanced teaching on European farms. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to reflect on pressing environmental and economic issues, advocating for sustainable and long-term rural development paths.
Students and scholars of agricultural and regional economics, development studies, rural sociology and economic and environmental geography will greatly benefit from this illuminating book. It is also an essential resource for practitioners and policymakers in related fields such as planning, law, agronomy, development and forestry.
This prescient book discusses the importance of reducing the environmental impacts of economic growth in agricultural regions. It examines the relationship between efforts to achieve economically viable food production in marginal and peripheral inland areas and the demand for environmental quality in rural districts.
Recenzijas
Its great to see a book that challenges and questions the intrinsic association between rural and development. This book addresses the need for a much more critical examination of the balance between the two. The authors highlight transformational opportunities to rethink and reshape food production to support equitable intergenerational wealth distribution and ecosystem protection. -- Claire Kelly, University of Plymouth, UK
Contents
1 Agriculture, environment and natural resources
2 Sustainable rural development
3 Urbanization, rural development, and land-use change
4 Decoupling agricultural production from environmental
sustainability
5 A paradigmatic environmentaleconomic system of
rural development
6 Agriculture, rural development and environmental
policy in marginal areas
Bibliography
Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, University of Basilicata, Italy, Marco Maialetti, Independent Researcher and Luca Salvati, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
