International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
By the editors 04/03/2014 As announced in early January, Exploring Rurality will be expanding the team of editors this year. We want to bring a new editor on board and are looking for any volunteers. As part of the editing team you will have a great opportunity to develop the blog further and to keep Read More …
by the editors 02/03/2014 Two job opportunities have come to our attention lately: In Europe: Professor in the discipline of Natural Resource Economics and Management at the University of Gent, The Netherlands In the US: Postdoc Opportunity – Watershed Ecosystem Services The University of New Hampshire seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate to play a central Read More …
by John Bryden, 23/02/2014 Now that we have ten years of experience with ICRPS, there is room for diversity of views on the future of ICRPS. For my part, I think it remains a very robust model that has stood the test of time as a self-supporting entity which is a creature of its Faculty Read More …
by the editors 16/02/2014 Dr. Dave Kohl, Professor Emeritus in the Agricultural & Applied Economics Department at Virginia Tech University discusses the key economic indicators to observe in the agricultural industry in the recorded webinar entitled The Pulse of Global Economics Mapping Local Food Webs Toolkit from the Campaign to Protect Rural England Rural communities Read More …
by John Bryden 10/02/2014 It is not always easy to perceive who is an ICRPS ‘student’ and who is ‘faculty’. The fact is that faculty come to the summer school in great numbers and regard it as an important means of learning new things, as well as updating themselves on contemporary issues and debates. The Read More …
by Doug Ramsey 04/02/2014 While the Journal of Rural Policy Studies conceived by ICRPS founders did not come to fruition, myself with others (including ICRPS members not mentioned in John Bryden’s history of ICRPS) did found the Journal of Rural and Community Development (JRCD) in 2005. Given my recent post about technology I thought it Read More …
by the editors 31/01/2014 Here is a sampling of what we have Recently Read. Enjoy! UN Report on Small-Scale Organic Farming LiDAR laser scanning reveals that New England once was quite a farming Eldorado (via sciencemag.org) ICRPS Faculty member Doug Ramsey wins award for research paper on how rural communities better can promote themselves as tourist Read More …
by John Bryden, 26/01/2014 From the start the ICRPS group adopted a territorial approach to rural policy, in fact following the development of the OECD approach, in which several of us were quite closely involved. This meant that we were, and are, more interested in rural regions, their people and economies and in the policies Read More …
by John Bryden 20/01/2014 Tom Johnson, Tony Fuller and I prepared a paper on the history of ICRPS since its inception in autumn 2002 and its possible future directions for the tenth anniversary conference of the ICRPS summer institutes. This was held during the tenth summer institute in Bologna, June 2013. We did so as Read More …
by the editors 16/01/2014 What makes a PhD become a fruit picker? (via NPR news) ‘Meat Atlas’ charts a changing world of meat eaters article from BBC News and the full report from the Heinrich Boell Foundation– an interesting report about the meat industry, purchasing and dietary habits worldwide, and the implications on the economy and Read More …