List of tables
List of figures
List of contributors
Rural-global linkages
Economic entanglements and the re-shaping of place in the global countryside / Michael Woods
Agriculture in chains : farms, firms and contracts / Michael Taylor and Matthew Tonts
The unjust chain? : the value chain of milk in Germany / Karsten Lehmann, Peter Dannenberg and Elmar Kulke
International migration and resilience : rural introductory spaces and refugee immigration as a resource / Susanne Stenbacka
Community resilience under influences of higher governance structures : the case of the Czech rural community noovice / Vladan Hruka
Rural entrepreneurship and labour markets
Non-farm businesses in rural areas : response to crisis or exploiting opportunities? : evidence from Vietnam / Juergen Bruenjes and Javier Revilla Diez
Immigrant small enterprises in rural Sweden : local and transnational resource mobilisation / Ali B. Najib
The role of large enterprises in local labour market development in non-metropolitan rural areas in Poland / Magdalena Dej and Grzegorz Micek
Rural innovation and learning
Entrepreneurial innovation capability of rural regions : an underestimated phenomena? / Ruediger Meng
Arranging support for collective learning in rural areas of Germany / Wiebke Wellbrock, Birte Nienaber, Michael Kriszan, Robert Nadler, Wioletta Frys, and Dirk Roep
Networks of regional learning in rural eastern Saxony / Joachim Burdack, Michael Kriszan and Robert Nadler
The role of agglomeration economies for sme transnationalisation : bypassing the global urban service nexus? / Michiel van Meeteren
Rural policies and governance
The role of side activities in building rural resilience : the case study of Kiel-Windeweer (The Netherlands) / Heike Delfmann, Marianna Markantoni and Bettina van Hoven
Metropolitan regions and rural development the case of Bremen-Oldenburg, northwestern Germany / Annika Neubauer and Christine Tamásy
New approaches to rural places / Javier Revilla Diez and Christine Tamásy.