Conflict and Change in the Countryside

Conflict and Change in the Countryside
Author: Guy M. Robinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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The book adopts a three part structure, with the first four chapters examining the nature and structure of rural society including the urbanization of rural communities, depopulation and counter urbanization.

Growth in a Time of Change

Growth in a Time of Change
Author: Hyeon-Wook Kim
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815737769

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Growth in a Time of Change: Global and Country Perspectives on a New Agenda is the first of a two-book research project that addresses new issues and challenges for economic growth arising from ongoing significant change in the world economy, focusing especially on technological transformation. The project is a collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Korea Development Institute. Part I of the book looks at key elements of change from a global perspective. It analyzes how technological change, shifts in investment, and demographic transition are affecting potential economic growth globally and across major groups of economies. The contributors explore possible scenarios for the global economy as the digital revolution drives rapid technological change, including impacts on growth, jobs, income distribution, trade balances, and capital flows. Technology is changing the global configuration of comparative advantage and globalization increasingly has a digital dimension. The implications of these developments for the future of sectors such as manufacturing and for international trade are assessed. Part II of the book addresses new issues in the growth agenda from the perspective of an individual major economy: South Korea. The chapters in this section analyze how macroeconomic developments and technological change are influencing the behavior of households and firms in terms of their decisions to consume, save, and invest. Rising income and wealth inequalities are a major concern globally. Against this backdrop, trends in the labor income share and wage inequalities in South Korea are analyzed in terms of the role played by technology, industrial concentration, shifts in labor demand and supply, and other factors. Throughout the book, the contributors, in their analysis of both global and Korea-specific trends and prospects, place emphasis on drawing implications for policy.

The Changing Countryside

The Changing Countryside
Author: Jörg Müller
Publisher: Heryin Books, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Cities and towns in art
ISBN: 9780976205647

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Seven illustrations show how a village changes between the years 1953 and 1972.

Canada, A Country of Change

Canada, A Country of Change
Author: Graham Broad
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1774920158

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Canada; A Country of Change (1867 to Present) explores the characters and events that have shaped Canada. Through Confederation, two world wars, Depression, and post-war prosperity, Canada has risen to become the free country we know today. In this book, your students will discover the exciting story that defines our nation. It includes: Historical photographs and artwork; Primary archival documents, including letters and other first-person accounts; Sidebars that extend the main text; Profiles of Canada’s prime ministers; Fun facts that connect history to children’s own experiences; Maps and charts designed for young readers; and Much more.

The Changing Countryside

The Changing Countryside
Author: Open University
Publisher:
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1987
Genre:
ISBN:

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Transforming the Appalachian Countryside

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside
Author: Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807862975

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In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region. Ronald Lewis explores the transformation in these mountain counties precipitated by deforestation. As the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region, West Virginia provides an ideal site for studying the broader social impact of deforestation in Appalachia, the South, and the eastern United States. Most of West Virginia was still dominated by a backcountry economy when the industrial transition began. In short order, however, railroads linked remote mountain settlements directly to national markets, hauling away forest products and returning with manufactured goods and modern ideas. Workers from the countryside and abroad swelled new mill towns, and merchants ventured into the mountains to fulfill the needs of the growing population. To protect their massive investments, capitalists increasingly extended control over the state's legal and political systems. Eventually, though, even ardent supporters of industrialization had reason to contemplate the consequences of unregulated exploitation. Once the timber was gone, the mills closed and the railroads pulled up their tracks, leaving behind an environmental disaster and a new class of marginalized rural poor to confront the worst depression in American history.

People In The Countryside

People In The Countryside
Author: A G Champion
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1991-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781853961281

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This book outlines the changes occurring in Britain’s rural areas and their impact on people’s lives. It challenges the image of the ‘rural idyll’ which many of the nation’s city dwellers hold. A key feature of the book is the use of local case-study material to illustrate the major themes identified from a broader evaluation of the topics. This approach gives readers a better feel for the nature and implications of social change in the countryside than can be obtained from standard texts on rural geography.

Consumers in the Country

Consumers in the Country
Author: Ronald R. Kline
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801862489

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From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies–the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power–transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly–and with what levels of resistance and acceptance–did this change take place? In Consumers in the Country Ronald R. Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.

The Countryside

The Countryside
Author: MARK. GILG BLACKSELL (ANDREW.)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781032935652

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The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making. It looks at the underlying reasons for change in the rural environment first and then the governmental response as reflected in powers assumed and rights granted to guide and direct rural development. The way in which land-use changes have been affected by public policies is then examined in further detail, with particular attention to settlements. Detailed case studies are utilised for this purpose.