Showing papers in "Journal of Rural Studies in 2004"

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that behavioural approaches in agriculture could be improved by using Ajzen's (Action Control: From Cognition to Behaviour, Springer, New York, 1985, pp. 11−39) theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework and, in particular, by taking greater account of normative influences, self-identity, and perceived selfefficacy.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the word counterurbanization is too broad to cover its depth of meaning and propose adoption of three concepts to describe the changing spatial redistribution of population: counterurban, counterurbanizing, and counterurbanisation.

TL;DR: The authors review the evidence of consumer demand for non-market goods and consider the methodologies used for eliciting public preferences regarding the policy tradeoffs that are likely to characterise the agri-industry reform debate.

TL;DR: The authors report results from a recent survey of agricultural business restructuring within six English study areas selected to span a range of agricultural settings and designed to identify the different trajectories of change to be found there.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the social constructions that have surrounded Tamworth's transition to country music capital and discuss the reactions of residents to constructions of Tamworth as Australia's 'country music capital' via a simple resident survey.

TL;DR: In this article, survey evidence from three Central European Countries (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) was analyzed to identify the degree of non-agricultural farm diversification and the factors facilitating or impeding it in individual and corporate farms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that Landcare has been a vast improvement on previous approaches to the management of the countryside in Australia, and that it has managed to mobilise a large cross-section of stakeholders.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the use of various forms of rural development expertise creates opportunities for some communities, but enhances inequality for others who either fail to conform to the risk-minimising forms of conduct prescribed by experts, or who pursue alternative forms of development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the operational terrain of LEADER local action groups in the Province of Northern Ireland has been surveyed, and the authors suggest that their strengths have been in developing the institutional capacity of rural communities and brokering connections in the local economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Delphi technique to forecast those factors likely to influence supply chain development and performance in two lagging rural regions in the UK: West Wales and the Scottish-English Borders.

TL;DR: However, there is growing evidence that the evolution of organic supply chains in the UK might be entering a phase characterised by the traditional farm-gate price-squeeze, so long an important feature of conventional agriculture as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors argue that there have been both interesting and important engagements between agricultural geography and cultural perspectives over the past decade, and elaborates four specific areas of research which provide evidence for concern about the "culture" within agriculture.

TL;DR: The authors argue that farm adjustments employed during and since this period have altered the character of family farming in the area in fundamental ways, such as increasing heterogeneity of farm structure, and the alteration of farming goals and household labour arrangements, together with the evolution of local cultural norms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of children in agricultural production, domestic reproduction, and trade in a rural Northern Nigeria community, and found that children play important economic roles supporting married women who spend much time in their walled residences ( gida) because of the local socio-religious practice of Muslim seclusion.

TL;DR: The authors used a study of women's participation in the Australian sugar industry to illustrate and critique the process and usefulness of reflexivity in rural research, and concluded with a brief reflexive examination of some of the challenges I face in taking up a new identity in rural sociology.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis on the varied paths of retail restructuring between 1988 and 1999, with a focus on changes in the geographic distribution and size of retail establishments in America's nonmetropolitan counties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the processes of community governance and how it applies in a number of case studies in Victoria and find that following municipal amalgamations these small towns lost many of the resources associated with their former municipal status and the outcome was the emergence of local development groups.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the implications of using various methods and combining different types of data for studying a subject matter called "the use of rural space" which concerns both physical land use and the practice and values of individual actors influencing the land use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in terms of its implications for the discipline of rural studies, focusing on the position of agriculture in rural economy and society, the standing of the government after its management of the outbreak, and the performance of the new devolved regional tiers of government.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data from a survey of agricultural stakeholders to demonstrate that institutions and social capital play an important role in agricultural success in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs).

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the evidence on a number of such fallacies: the economic impact of agriculture, depopulation, low incomes, rural labour markets, house prices, and service provision.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical incident analysis of the impacts of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) on rural micro-businesses and a review of the resulting adaptive responses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the role of market towns in alleviating problems in the provision of rural services and found that the continuation of this relationship depends on market towns taking advantage of demographic trends in rural areas.

TL;DR: In the context of declining government subsidization of agriculture, many analysts have predicted reversals in certain characteristic trends of post-1945 Western agriculture with positive implications for agroecosystem well-being as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on agricultural shows as sites and events central to such re-imaging strategies: shows are moments of convergence, assembling farming people, entities, knowledges and practices, and nonfarming publics, and allowing agricultural societies to stage managed encounters between farming and non-farmers.

TL;DR: The authors explored the changing relationship between nature and rurality through an examination of the shifting iconography of animals, and particularly "wild" animals, in a rural setting, arguing that the faunistic icons of rural areas are evolving as alternative conceptions of the countryside, of nature and of the classic dichotomy between 'wild' and 'domesticated' animals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the existence of two powerful discourses of rurality in Denmark after World War II, the first one is termed the modernist-agriculturalist discourse, which is based on key words, such as structural changes, development and vertical integration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine decline in cocoa production at three historical moments: Trinidad in the early 18th century, Brazil in the first half of the 20th century and Ghana in the recent transition from colonialism to independence.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study involving complementary use of qualitative and quantitative research methods was undertaken to assess the belief that farmers cooperate more with their industry organisations than with government in ensuring compliance, both in terms of sanctioning one another's compliance and supporting their organisations in providing third-party sanctioning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on contemporary re-imaginings of the land in North Sutherland that counter global, modernist discourse and argue that people create what Edward Said (Culture and Imperialism) calls a ‘culture of resistance to contemporary as well as past processes of dispossession.