Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Next Rural Economies -- Demographics, Migration, and Immigration -- 2 Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something...? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the "New" Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia -- 3 The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development -- 4 A New Rural North Carolina: Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement -- 5 Connecting Rural and Urban Places: Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wales -- 6 Ontario's Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation: Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economy -- Emerging Economies -- 7 Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism: Lessons from Ireland -- 8 Value-added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan's Fruit Belt -- 9 Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy: Examples from Germany and Canada -- 10 Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region: the Case of Miramichi, New Brunswick -- Rural Policy and Governance -- 11 Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors -- 12 Partnerships, People, and Place: Lauding the Local in Rural Development -- 13 The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside: Stories from Rural Wales -- Rural-Urban Exchange -- 14 Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes -- 15 When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place: the Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France -- 16 Rural Development Strategies in Japan -- Renewal in Resource Peripheries -- 17 Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada's Periphery: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador.

18 Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development: A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy -- 19 Understanding and Transforming a Staples-based Economy: Place-based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada -- Closing -- 20 Space to Place: Bridging the Gap -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.