A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development

Elgar Research Agendas

Terry Marsden, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK, Claire Lamine, INRAE-Ecodéveloppement, France and Sergio Schneider, Department of Sociology and the Graduate Programs of Sociology and Rural Development, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanization, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.

‘Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as a site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.’
– Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, US