Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Crisis and Change in Rural Europe: Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains

0/5 ( ratings)

This book argues that the marginal upland regions of southern Europe are facing a growing agrarian crisis. Drawing on an extensive period of original field research in northern Portugal, a theory of crisis is put forward, which draws on recent advances in the fields of geography, rural sociology, and development studies. In an in-depth analysis of the Serra do Alvao, the importance of external political economic factors are highlighted. It is argued that traditional agriculture systems have been undermined, and farmers marginalized, without creating the conditions for restructuring and more efficient production. A strategy for economic growth which prioritizes increases in productivity is rejected, in favour of a more flexible approach to development.

Language: English

Pages: 205

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Avebury

Release: January 01, 1992

ISBN: 1856282724

ISBN 13: 9781856282727

Crisis and Change in Rural Europe: Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains

0/5 ( ratings)

This book argues that the marginal upland regions of southern Europe are facing a growing agrarian crisis. Drawing on an extensive period of original field research in northern Portugal, a theory of crisis is put forward, which draws on recent advances in the fields of geography, rural sociology, and development studies. In an in-depth analysis of the Serra do Alvao, the importance of external political economic factors are highlighted. It is argued that traditional agriculture systems have been undermined, and farmers marginalized, without creating the conditions for restructuring and more efficient production. A strategy for economic growth which prioritizes increases in productivity is rejected, in favour of a more flexible approach to development.

Language: English

Pages: 205

Format: Unknown Binding

Publisher: Avebury

Release: January 01, 1992

ISBN: 1856282724

ISBN 13: 9781856282727

More books from Richard Black

Denied: The rise and fall of climate contrarianism

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Nikolis Cole: The Low-Rise Saint

Grave Markers: Volume 1

Targeting Development: Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Neo-opsis Issue 20

The Burning Barn

The Complete Family Guide to College Financial Aid

Rural Europe

Gay Mexico

The Future of Energy

I See 4

Living in the Landscape: Extraordinary rural homes in Australia and New Zealand

Mobile Landscapes

Rate this book!

Write a review?