A Living Countryside?

Dr John McDonagh is from the Department of Geography and Dr Tony Varley is from the Department of Politics both at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Dr Sally Shortall is Director of the Gibson Institute for Land Food and Environment at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Contents: The politics of rural sustainability, Tony Varley, John McDonagh and Sally Shortall; Part I Policy and Planning for Sustainability: A legal framework for sustainable development in rural areas of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Yvonne Scannell and Sharon Turner; Environmental lessons for rural Ireland from the European Union: how great expectations in Brussels get dashed in Bangor and Belmullet, Brendan Flynn; Governance for regional sustainable development: building institutional capacity in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Gerard Mullally and Brian Motherway; Regional planning and sustainability, Mark Scott; Managing rural nature: regulation, translations and governance in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Hilary Tovey. Part II Primary Production and Sustainability: Agriculture and multifunctionality in Ireland, John Feehan and Deirdre O'Connor; Sustainable forestry in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Roy W. Tomlinson and John Fennessy; Governance and sustainability: impacts of the Common Fisheries Policy in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, David Meredith and Joan McGinley; Production, markets and the coastal environment: exploring the social sustainability of Irish aquaculture, John Phyne. Part III Information Technology, Tourism and Sustainability: Knowledge-based competition: implications for sustainable development in rural Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Seamus Grimes and Stephen Roper; Conflict to consensus: contested notions of sustainable rural tourism on the island of Ireland, Ruth McAreavey, John McDonagh and Maria Heneghan. Part IV Social Differentiation and Sustainability: Demography of rural decline and expansion, Trutz Haase; 'A growing concern': youth, sustainable lifestyle and livelihood in rural Ireland, Brian McGrath; Rural ageing and public policy in Ireland, Eamon O'Shea; Gender and sustainability in rural Ireland, Sally Shortall and Anne Byrne; The Irish language and the future of the Gaeltacht regions of Ireland, Seosamh Mac Donnacha and Conchúr Ó Giollagáin. Part V Sustainability and Civil Society: Environmental movements in Ireland: North and South, John Barry and Peter Doran; Populism and the politics of community survival in rural Ireland, Tony Varley; The road to sustainable transport: community groups, rural transport programmes and policies in Ireland, Henrike Rau and Colleen Hennessy. Conclusion: Sustainability and getting the balance right in rural Ireland, John McDonagh, Tony Varley and Sally Shortall; Index.