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This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities.
List of contents
1. Rural Governance in the UK: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society 2. What is the rural? 3. Rural Governance of the United Kingdom in and out of the European Union 4. Co-designing post-Brexit agri-environmental policy - focusing on environmental land management in England 5. Governing the UK agri-food system post-Brexit 6. Resistance to Mining and Pathways to a Sustainable Rural Environment: Rewriting the Maps 7. Governing like a forest: achieving diachronic integrity or emergency carbon sequestration through post-Brexit forest policy? 8. Sustainable rural development and rural energy communities in a post-Brexit UK: Paralysis or broader visions in uncertain times? 9. The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK 10. Sustainable rural communities and patriarchal structures: the case of Shetland’s Lerwick Up-Helly-Aa 11. Brexit and rural social entrepreneurship in the UK 12. Ongoing Challenges: for a Resurgent Rural in Post-Brexit, Post-Covid Times
About the author
Adrienne Attorp is a Senior Social Researcher at Scottish Government and an Associate Researcher at the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise at Newcastle University, UK.
Sean Heron is a PhD candidate in politics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
Ruth McAreavey is a Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK.
Summary
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities.
