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Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future: 107 2013th Edition
Author(s): Luís Silva (Editor), Elisabete Figueiredo
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 2 July 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 277 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789400767959
- ISBN-13: 9789400767959
Book Description
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.
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Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.
About the Author
Elisabete Figueiredo is a sociologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Social, Political andTerritorial Sciences – University of Aveiro (UAVR) and Full Researcher at GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies [elisa@ua.pt]. Her principal research interests are rural sociology and rural studies, especially contrasting social representations and imaginaries on rural areas and on rurality; rural development policies and strategies; rural reconfiguration and restructuring processes; rural tourism impacts. She is also interested in environmental sociology and risk studies. She is author and co-author of more than 100 papers, in international and national books and journals. She is the general coordination of the book Rural Plural – Olhar o presente, imaginar o future [Plural Rural – looking at the present, imagining the future] (2011, 100Luz).
