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1. Rural Governance

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to ‘bottom-up’ or community-based approaches to planning and...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Agricultural Governance

   Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation

   Edited by Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium. In an era of globalization, where nation states appear to have a diminishing role in governing these matters, the existing and emerging power relations...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge