Rongo Univesity Library

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Rural-global linkages -- Economic entanglements and the re-shaping of place in the global countryside / Michael Woods -- Agriculture in chains : farms, firms and contracts / Michael Taylor and Matthew Tonts -- The unjust chain? : the value chain of milk in Germany / Karsten Lehmann, Peter Dannenberg and Elmar Kulke -- International migration and resilience : rural introductory spaces and refugee immigration as a resource / Susanne Stenbacka -- Community resilience under influences of higher governance structures : the case of the Czech rural community noovice / Vladan Hruka -- Rural entrepreneurship and labour markets -- Non-farm businesses in rural areas : response to crisis or exploiting opportunities? : evidence from Vietnam / Juergen Bruenjes and Javier Revilla Diez -- Immigrant small enterprises in rural Sweden : local and transnational resource mobilisation / Ali B. Najib -- The role of large enterprises in local labour market development in non-metropolitan rural areas in Poland / Magdalena Dej and Grzegorz Micek -- Rural innovation and learning -- Entrepreneurial innovation capability of rural regions : an underestimated phenomena? / Ruediger Meng -- Arranging support for collective learning in rural areas of Germany / Wiebke Wellbrock, Birte Nienaber, Michael Kriszan, Robert Nadler, Wioletta Frys, and Dirk Roep -- Networks of regional learning in rural eastern Saxony / Joachim Burdack, Michael Kriszan and Robert Nadler -- The role of agglomeration economies for sme transnationalisation : bypassing the global urban service nexus? / Michiel van Meeteren -- Rural policies and governance -- The role of side activities in building rural resilience : the case study of Kiel-Windeweer (The Netherlands) / Heike Delfmann, Marianna Markantoni and Bettina van Hoven -- Metropolitan regions and rural development the case of Bremen-Oldenburg, northwestern Germany / Annika Neubauer and Christine Tam�asy -- New approaches to rural places / Javier Revilla Diez and Christine Tam�asy.

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