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Many people living in rural areas face hardship but the UK's welfare system is poorly adapted to meet their needs, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. This book combines person-based and place-based approaches to tackling rural poverty.

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"Getting ‘under the skin’ of hidden poverty benefits from qualitative research approaches. This volume succeeds admirably in this regard, providing an important addition to a research area neglected because of its hiddenness." Town Planning Review

Table of Contents
Foreword by Professor Sir Howard Newby 1. Introduction 2. Poverty and social exclusion in rural Britain: a review 3. East Perthshire: an accessible rural area in Scotland 4. Harris: an island area of Scotland 5. The North Tyne valley, Northumberland: a remote area of England 6. Rural poverty in a pandemic: experiences of COVID-19 7. Changing sources of support: precarity, conditionality and social solidarity 8. Conclusions and policy implications

Rural Poverty Today

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 22 February 2023
      ISBN-13 9781447367123
      978-1447367123
      ISBN-10 144736712X
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      Poverty and precarity Rural communities / rural life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Many people living in rural areas face hardship but the UK's welfare system is poorly adapted to meet their needs, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. This book combines person-based and place-based approaches to tackling rural poverty.

      Trade Review
      "Getting ‘under the skin’ of hidden poverty benefits from qualitative research approaches. This volume succeeds admirably in this regard, providing an important addition to a research area neglected because of its hiddenness." Town Planning Review

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Professor Sir Howard Newby 1. Introduction 2. Poverty and social exclusion in rural Britain: a review 3. East Perthshire: an accessible rural area in Scotland 4. Harris: an island area of Scotland 5. The North Tyne valley, Northumberland: a remote area of England 6. Rural poverty in a pandemic: experiences of COVID-19 7. Changing sources of support: precarity, conditionality and social solidarity 8. Conclusions and policy implications

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