Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin: Selected Contributions to the Fifteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions

SYNOPSIS

Fifteen contributions, presented by Byron (sociology and anthropology, U. of Wales, UK) and Hutson (social anthropology, U. of Wales, UK) explore the development possibilities of the isolated communities that lie along the North Atlantic Coast in Canada and Europe. The authors look at the nature of the economies of these communities that rely primarily on fishing and farming for their economic health. After a number of papers look at the contexts for the declining fortune of these communities, other articles examine the resources and constraints for community development in a number of regions. Specific topics include the politics of local land-use planning in Norway, the economic impact of the Welsh national nature reserves, a comparison of two Irish community development movements, Swedish policy responses to the fisheries crash of 1967, and the economies of farm households in northwest France.