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The rural fuse has been lit. The countryside is tinder-dry. Post offices and banks, shops and schools are closing. Farmers are going out of business. Houses are becoming unaffordable as prices soar ad poverty grows. Pollution and over-exploitation are destroying landscapes. Many rural communities are on the verge of collapse. Some fear the foot- and - mouth crisis will prove to be the last straw. This book offers disturbing evidence of the background to the crisis.
A Countryside For All is a rallying cry for action, pointing ways towards a presciption for the future. This volume tackles many of the issues in a variety of new and original ways. Possibly the most controversial and radical call is for the creation of a Department for the Countryside, with a Secretary of State for the Countryside- who would be responsible for setting a coherent set of policies to reverse the decline of rural Britain.
This timely book outlines the main problems facing the countryside, and starts to bring together a balanced range of proposals. Thought-provoking, filled with common sense, often controversial but always fascinating, it points the way forward for the countryside, and for town and country as a whole.
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The rural fuse has been lit. The countryside is tinder-dry. Post offices and banks, shops and schools are closing. Farmers are going out of business. Houses are becoming unaffordable as prices soar and poverty grows. Pollution and over-exploitation are destroying landscapes. Many rural communities are on the verge of collapse. Many fear the foot-and-mouth crisis will prove to be the last straw.
A Countryside For All is a rallying cry for action, pointing ways towards a prescription for the future. This volume tackles many of the issues in a variety of new and original ways. Possibly the most controversial and radical call is for the creation of a Department for the Countryside, with a Secretary of State for the Countryside –who would be responsible for setting a coherent set of policies to reverse the decline of rural Britain.
This timely book outlines the main problems facing the countryside, and start to bring together a balanced range of proposals. Thought-provoking, filled with common sense, often controversial but always fascinating, they point the way forward for the countryside, and for town and country as a whole.
Professor Lord Skidelsky, Michael Sissons, Professor Roger Scruton, Simon Jenkins, Dr Matt Ridley, Dr Mark Pennington, Alan Kilkenny, Rt Hon John Gummer MP, Professor Sir Colin Spedding, Graham Harvey, Hugh Oliver-Bellasis, Abigail Woods, Caroline Hitchman, Graham Cox, Nick Way, Dawn Goodfellow
