Regional Resilience, Economy and Society: Globalising Rural Places (The Dynamics of Economic Space)

There has been a great deal of restructuring of rural places and communities under globalization, highlighting the interaction of local and global actors to produce new hybrid socio-economic relations. Recent research highlights the heterogeneity of globalization in which rural places are different to each other, but also different to how they were in the past. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of academics, and comparative case studies from Europe (West and East) and Asia, this book explores and discusses opportunities and challenges associated with globalizing rural places, and identifies possibilities for policy and practical intervention by rural development actors.