Winning and Losing

Doris Schmied, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Contents: Introduction: Winning and losing in Europe's rural areas, Doris Schmied. The Changing Rural Economy: Employment restructuring in rural areas, Anne Green; Agriculture on the verge of the 21st century: the challenge of coming to terms with the environment, Maryvonne Bodiguel; Global integration and the industrialization of the countryside, Christos Kalantaridis; Sustainable rural tourism and rural change, Derek Hall; Rural areas in the digital economy, Jeremy Millard; Supply of goods and services in sparsely populated regions: the example of Sweden's glesbygd, Günter Löffler. The Changing Rural Society: Incomers and locals in the European countryside, Doris Schmied; The situation of young people in rural areas, Walter Bien, Lothar Lappe and Richard Rathgeber; Older people in rural Europe: a comparative analysis, Thomas Scharf, G. Clare Wenger, Frans Thissen and Vanessa Burholt; Structural funds and gender mainstreaming: counting heads or changing structures?, Gunnel Forsberg; Tackling social exclusion: an evaluation of local exchange and trading schemes (LETS), Colin C. Williams. The Changing Rural Areas: A booming country - a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas, Mary Cawley; Mountainous areas - forever losing? The examples of Oberallgäu (Germany) and Sierra de Francia (Spain), Alois Müller; Spatial restructuring of rural Finland, Markku Tykkyläinen; Social capital and rural development: from win-lose to win-win with the LEADER initiative, Gilda Farrell and Samuel Thirion; Index.