Sustainable Development and Geographical Space: Issues of Population, Environment, Globalization and Education in Marginal Regions

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- PART 1 - POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 2 From unity to the present - spatial aspects of population development in Tuscany seen on maps -- 3 Patterns of population sustainability in the US Midlands -- 4 Economic growth, ecological consequences and depopulation in the rural areas of Galicia (Spain) -- 5 Local poverty in Finland in 1995 -- 6 Regional imbalances in Spain at the end of the century -- 7 Job development and regional structure - local examples of growing and declining industries in Northern Finland -- 8 Rural development and marginal areas in Slovenia -- PART 2 - ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 9 Establishing a sustainable conservation policy in northern Saudi Arabia -- 10 Biosphere reserves - sustainable development of marginal regions? -- 11 Sorghum based farming systems in Botswana - the challenges of improving rural livelihood in a drought prone environment -- 12 Global change and community self-reliance strategies in Southern Africa -- 13 Subsistence and marginal lands - an Alaskan political and geographic issue -- 14 Traditional water rights in northern New Mexico -- PART 3 - GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 15 Spatial shifts in production and consumption - marginality patteras in the new international division of labour -- 16 Economic change and transportation deregulation in selected marginal and critical areas of the US Pacific Northwest -- 17 Nearer the core - the fishing sector in one of Europe's marginal regions -- 18 Tourism and sustainable development - 'snow tourism' in European Mountain regions -- 19 Rural tourism and new patterns of development in the Portuguese rural space.