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This edited collection, first published in 1989, provides a detailed analysis of rural land-use policies on a country-specific basis. Case studies include analyses of planning and legislation in Britain, The Netherlands, Japan, the U.S.A. and Australia. Alongside a comprehensive overview of the concept and application of rural land use from Paul Cloke, environment issues, resource management and the role of central governments are topics under discussion throughout. At an international level, this title will of particular interest to students of rural geography and environmental planning

Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people: Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and understanding of urban homelessness; Emphasizes the ethical and emotional geographies of care embodied and performed within homeless services spaces; Suggests that different homelessness 'scenes' develop in different places due to varied historical, political, and cultural responses to the problems face

Argues that homeless statistics are important to identify problems and formulate public policies, and that to improve the reliability of counts there is a need to draw on the experience of housing officers, local agency workers, and others dealing daily with localized homeless; Great Britain. Summaries in French and Spanish.