Publisher's Synopsis
Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade. These communities are in the peripheries of advanced industrial nation-states such as Canada, and of supra-national alliances such as the European Community, yet despite this there are no easy solutions to the development of these regions. - - Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volume examines how peripheral North Atlantic communities might turn around their economic and population decline. By placing these communities in their wider economic contexts and by seeing them through the eyes of young local people, this inspiring collection offers insights to and understandings of the processes which are shaping the future of communities in these regions.
