First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of Contributors
Lists of Figures and Tables
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Prologue: Rural Policy and the British Countryside
Paul Alhnson and Martin Whitby
Part I: Rural Resources
1. The Role of Markets in the Rural Economy
David Hatvey
2. Pesticides, Pollution and Sustainability
Neil Ward
3. Natural Resource Management: the Case of Heather Moorland
Ben White
4. Valuing Environmental Goods in the Countryside
Guy Gawod
5. The Role of Marketing Rural Food Products
Christogher Ritson and Shamn Kurnesof
Part 11: Rural Economy
6. A Sustainable Rural Economy?
Paul Allunson
7. The Planning of Rural Britain
Jonathan Murdoch
8. Local Rural Development and the LEADER I Programme
Christopher Ray
9. Losers and Gainers from Rural Policy
Martin Whitby
The Rural Economy and the British Countryside
10. Blueprint for a Rural Economy
Philip Lowe
References
Index

Allanson, Paul ; Whitby, Martin