Understanding the use of rural space: The need for multi-methods

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The implications of using various methods and combining different types of data for studying the use of rural space, which is concerning both physical land use and the practice and values of individual actors influencing the land use, are discussed. The examples from Senegal and Denmark illustrate the ways in which the approach facilitates quite different studies of both practice and values and how quantitative and qualitative data can be combined in a non-eclectic way.

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Exploring the current and future role of market towns in servicing their hinterlands: A case study of Alnwick in the North East of England

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The current and future role of market towns in servicing their hinterlands is explored by using the case of the hinterland of Alnwick, a market town in the North East of England. The results suggest a mutual dependence between market town services and hinterland residents and that the continuation of this relationship depends on market towns taking advantage of demographic trends in rural areas.

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New community governance in small rural towns: The Australian experience

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The ways in which the new concerns for communal ties and voluntary social organizations operate when formal government structures are withdrawn are discussed. The processes of community governance and the way it applies in a number of case studies in Victoria, the rural town in Australia, are given.

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