Rural Governance: International Perspectives

by Geoffrey Lawrence, Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins

Book Overview

Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to 'bottom-up' or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to 'empower' rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top-down government control. At the same time, however,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415654114
• ISBN13: 9780415654111
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"