Publisher's Synopsis
This volume brings together twelve of the papers given to the Fourteenth Seminar on Marginal Regions, which met in Scotland in the summer of 1997. The Seminar is a unique interdisciplinary group which meets every two years to discuss the common problems in rural development on the North Atlantic margin, and to report upon the findings of new research and policy initiatives. On this occasion, the Seminar?s forty participants included economists, geographers, educationalists, planning and land-use specialists, sociologists, anthropologists, demographers and development-agency professionals from the USA, Canada, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Part one of the volume looks to the future, building further on the issues and research problems identified in the papers contained in the previous volume, Sustainable Development on the North Atlantic Margin. These include a paper reporting on an innovative EU-sponsored research initiative outlining an approach to sustainable rural development in the EU and EFTA countries: and papers reporting upon new analyses of ways of enhancing, generating, maintaining and organizing economic activities to provide households with livelihoods in the face of continued pressures acting to drain economic opportunities from these regions.
