Description
Book Synopsis* A new textbook specially designed for use on rural and countryside courses * Sister book to the successful Agricultural Notebook * Edited by Richard Soffe, with contributions from a wide range of experts * International scope: also suitable for use in temperate countries outside the UK .
Table of ContentsPart 1 Rural Development.
1 One thousand years of rural life.
P Brassley.
Part 2 Rural Society & Government.
2 An introduction to contemporary rural economies.
M Winter and M Lobley.
3 More than picturesque: An introduction to contemporary rural society.
M Reed and M Lobley.
4 Countryside law.
T Felton.
5 Rural planning.
P Tyler P Warner.
Part 3 The Rural Environment.
6 Nature conservation.
E Williams.
7 Landscape.
S Blackburn and P Brassley.
8 Building conservation.
PC Child.
Part 4 The Rural Economy.
9 The common agricultural policy of the European Union.
P Brassley and M Lobley.
10 Livestock production.
RA Cooper.
11 Cropping in the UK.
A Samuel.
12 Grassland.
RJ Wilkins.
13 Organic farming.
NH Lampkin.
14 Farm woodland management.
AD Carter and I Willoughby.
15 Game bird management.
S Tapper.
16 Equine.
J Houghton Brown.
17 Amenity fisheries and aquaculture.
P Haughton and D Horsely.
18 Tourism.
PR Brunt.
19 Marketing management.
R Soffe.
20 Managing people.
MAH Stone
