Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside
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Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside by George Giacinto Giarchi
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
?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)
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405162418 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405162414 |
| Title | Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside |
| Author | George Giacinto Giarchi |
| Series | Broadening Perspectives In Social Policy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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