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Paul J. Cloke, FBA, FAcSS (1953 [citation needed] – 25 May 2022) was an author and emeritus professor of geography. He was known as the founding editor of the international and multidisciplinary academic Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier Science. [1]
The Journal of Rural Studies is a peer reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier (originally Pergamon Press). It covers research on present-day rural societies, as well as their economies, cultures, and lifestyles. This includes rural geography and agricultural economics. Paul Cloke was the founding editor-in-chief.
Shingleton graduated from Stantonsburg (NC) High School, where he was class president, in 1954 and then from East Carolina University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in social studies, in 1958. [5] He went on to complete a Master of Arts degree in social studies at Appalachian State University. [6]
Rural American history is the history ... John E. "Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces Shaping the American Midwest," Studies in ... Handbook of Rural Health ...
Increasing numbers of people have taken on important dualistic questions of society/space, nature/culture structure/agency and self/other from the perspective of rural studies. However, it is the 'cultural turn' in wider social science which has lent both respectability and excitement to the nexus with rurality, particularly with new foci on ...
Rural sociology is a field of sociology traditionally associated with the study of social structure and conflict in rural areas. It is an active academic field in much of the world, originating in the United States in the 1910s with close ties to the national Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of agriculture.
Participatory Rural Appraisal Methods and Applications in Rural Planning: Essays in Honour of Robert Chambers. Concept, Second Revised Edition, ISBN 81-8069-105-5; Order of the British Empire, 1995. Honorary doctorate, University of Edinburgh; Honorary DLitt, University of Sussex, 2007. Honorary DLitt, University of East Anglia, 1995.
The term rural development is not limited to issues of developing countries. In fact many developed countries have very active rural development programs. [citation needed] Rural development aims at finding ways to improve rural lives with the participation of rural people themselves, so as to meet the required needs of rural communities. [20]