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Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside
Giarchi George Giac
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Description for Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside
Paperback. This book focuses attention upon rural social policy and welfare issues within selected areas in the US, Australia, continental Europe and Britain as well as in countrysides within less industrialised India and Mexico. This edited collection adds to the new genre of geopolitical and socio-economic rural transnational studies. Editor(s): Giarchi, George Giacinto. Series: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 274.
This book focuses attention upon rural social policy and welfare issues within selected areas in the US, Australia, continental Europe and Britain as well as in countrysides within less industrialised India and Mexico. This edited collection adds to the new genre of geopolitical and socio-economic rural transnational studies.
This book focuses attention upon rural social policy and welfare issues within selected areas in the US, Australia, continental Europe and Britain as well as in countrysides within less industrialised India and Mexico. This edited collection adds to the new genre of geopolitical and socio-economic rural transnational studies.
- Discusses the multi-dimensional factors affecting rural space, socio-political urban-rural power relations, conflicting urban-rural tensions and opposed values
- Adds to the existing studies of contemporary urban-rural dialogue, in respect of social policy and rural welfare in a changing global countryside
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405162418
SKU
V9781405162418
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-30
About Giarchi George Giac
George Giacinto Giarchi is Professor of Social Care Studies in the School of Applied Psycho-Social Studies, in the Faculty of Health and Social Work at the University of Plymouth, England.
Reviews for Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside
?This is an interesting -collection with some chapters providing broad overviews of rural welfare and others detailing the specifics in particular places.? (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)