The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning
A Handbook for Practice

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century.

Looking across different international experiences ? from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging economies, including BRIC and former communist states ? it aims to develop new conceptual propositions and theoretical insights, supported by detailed case studies and reviews of available data. The Companion gives coverage to emerging topics in the field and seeks to position rural planning in the broader context of global challenges: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, food and energy security, and low carbon futures. It also looks at old, established questions in new ways: at social and spatial justice, place shaping, economic development, and environmental and landscape management. Planning in the twenty-first century must grapple not only with the challenges presented by cities and urban concentration, but also grasp the opportunities ? and understand the risks ? arising from rural change and restructuring. Rural areas are diverse and dynamic. This Companion attempts to capture and analyse at least some of this diversity, fostering a dialogue on likely and possible rural futures between a global community of rural planning researchers.

Primarily intended for scholars and graduate students across a range of disciplines, such as planning, rural geography, rural sociology, agricultural studies, development studies, environmental studies and countryside management, this book will prove to be an invaluable and up-to-date resource.

New Horizons in Rural Planning Section 1: CONCEPTS AND FOUNDATIONS Section 2: THE STATE AND RURAL GOVERNANCE Section 3 PLANNING FOR THE RURAL ECONOMY Section 4: SOCIAL CHANGE AND PLANNING Section 5 PLANNING THE INCLUSIVE COUNTRYSIDE Section 6: RURAL SETTLEMENT, PLANNING AND DESIGN Section 7: LANDSCAPE, AMENITY AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT Section 8: ENERGY AND RESOURCES Section 9: REFLECTIONS AND FUTURES Index

Mark Scott is Professor of Planning at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Nick Gallent is Professor of Housing and Planning and Head of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.

Menelaos Gkartzios is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Development at Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy, UK.