THE ARKLETON TRUST
Enstone
and
THE ARKLETON CENTRE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
University of Aberdeen
NEWSLETTER
1998
THE ARKLETON TRUST
Enstone
and
THE ARKLETON CENTRE FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
University of Aberdeen
NEWSLETTER
1998
Arkleton Trust
The Trust has been busy this year with seminars, which were always one of its
main activities and now that Research is with Aberdeen there is time and energy to
devote to more seminars. Our aim is to hold a major one each year - funds willing.
Our particular pleasure at the 1998 Seminar has been to welcome a group of participants from six Eastern European countries - a good chance for them to meet other members of the Community and, indeed, to meet each other.
During the year the Trust made a travel award to Oxford University to enable an Eastern European participant to attend a European Conference on Environmental and Societal Changes in Mountain Regions: two delegates from the Czech Republic were able to take up the award and they reported back to us on how helpful the conference had been, and how the award had enabled them to participate.
We have been making a determined effort to get into the modern world here at the Oxfordshire Office and we have succeeded. We now have an e-mail address which is: arkleton@enstoneuk.demon.co.uk
The Trust also runs three internet mailing lists in collaboration with the Arkleton Centre at Aberdeen - all are joined by sending a one-line text message by e-mail of the form: join <listname> <your name> to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
The listnames are:
| arkleton | a general arkleton list |
| arktel | a list about rural telecommunications & IT issues |
| reaper | a list about rural research in Europe. |
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Not all of the above lists are very active.
Professor Dandekar's death
A sad piece of news since our last Newsletter which, regrettably we are slow to report, was the death of Professor V M Dandekar in July 1995. Vinayak Dandekar was a member of our International Advisory Committee for some twenty years and was one of India's outstanding economists. After his training in statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta he joined the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune in 1945, and retired there in 1980. He was Director of the Institute for 10 years. In 1970 he set up the Indian School of Political Economy and was founder/editor of its prestigious journal.
Through his writings Dandekar made a lasting impact in the broad area of poverty, unemployment, agriculture and land reforms. His monograph on Poverty in India (1970), jointly written with Nilkantha Rath, was rightly heralded as a pioneering work and remains an important landmark in the field.
Dandekar was an inspiring teacher and a critical and provocative speaker in academic gatherings and public meetings. He enjoyed participating in debates on policy issues and his audience in turn relished his outspoken and sharp interventions which raised the analytical level of debates. Marshalling data and arguments he campaigned for legalisation of cow-slaughter in the midst of a political agitation seeking its ban. As a good debater he presented his views forcefully, even aggressively, but was equally respectful to the ideas of others.
Dandekar will be long remembered not only for his valuable scholarly contributions to the study of Indian political economy but also for his fearless championing of causes dear to him.
The seminar focused on the implications of such changes for the UK, and had participants from development agencies, land use agencies, government departments, LEADER groups, NGOs and Universities in Scotland, England, N Ireland and Wales. It was chaired by Professor Howard Newby, Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University and facilitated by John Bryden. A report of the meeting was published and copies are available from the Arkleton Trust office in Oxfordshire.
Prior to the seminar a Study Tour was organised for Eastern European participants, with the aim of seeing how the EU rural regulations (Structural Funds in Objective 1, CAP Accompanying Measures, Environment) were implemented on the ground. The tour, accompanied by Michael Tracy and John Bryden, started with a visit to the Scottish Office in Edinburgh, continued to Inverness where we met officials and members of the Highlands and Islands Objective 1 Partnership, the Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and Inverness & Nairn LEADER programme. Visits were made to Nigg, to see the dry dock supported by Objective 1 funds, and to Kilmorack Village Hall, by Beauly, to talk with LEADER beneficiaries and local representatives. Support for Eastern European participants came from TAIEX, the European Commissions office for Technical Support to the CEECs. CEECs must harmonise their internal regulations with those of the EU during the process of Accession.
1997: Wendy Carter won the top award for 1997 to help her to start a project on primary health care in Zapallal, Peru. Her aim is to leave behind her a programme for local care workers and teachers to initiate projects to improve existing education, nutrition and health standards in the village. Wendy was planning to return to this country during the early part of this year.
Mark Grindley led a team on the Project Elgon '97 to assist the Mount Elgon Conservation and Development Project to carry out research to expand the limited knowledge of the conflicts within the Mount Elgon National Park in S E Uganda, especially between those who live there and those who simply visit. The project was completed and Mark has sent a copy of his final report to us. This report will also form part of his final dissertation.
1998: Julia Betts has been awarded the Fellowship to examine how the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques in the planning and implementation of adult literacy projects affects women's impetus for socio-economic development in the community. A set of three PRA-based literacy projects in rural El Salvador will be investigated and her work will be monitored by both CIAZO (Inter-Agency Committee for Literacy) and Action Aid.
The second Fellowship for 1998 was made to Sebastian Taylor who is studying development aid agencies and how they work with aid beneficiaries in the developing world. He is concentrating on the work of a UK charity (Mines Advisory Group), looking at its work with local village communities in the clearance of unexploded ordnance, as well as rural development, in South-East Asia, amongst the villages of Xieng Khouang Province, Laos.
The first award was made to Michael Taylor during 1997. Michael has spent the last year living in several Khwe settlements in Botswana studying how the people living there understand their position in the modern state of Botswana, what the impacts of government development programmes have been and how, if possible, they can shape their own future. Michaels research will be written up in the form of a thesis on his return to this country.
The 1998 award was made to Gustav Nemes, a Hungarian student who is studying for his MSc at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gustav will be analysing the EU's rural development policy from the Central European point of view; what can be learnt from the current practice of the Structural Funds, what sort of interactions can be expected between the present and the candidate EU countries and how both groups of countries should prepare themselves for when these countries join the EU.
The first was made to Daniel D Adjokatcher who lives in Ghana and whose project was to produce a documentary video on the alternative sustainable and cost- effective sources of energy available to people in rural areas and to show more efficient uses to which their energy resources can be put. Daniel successfully completed his work and we have a copy of his video in the office.
The second award was made to Alice Martha Achieng who works with an organisation called Forum for Women Education Initiatives (WORFO). Their project was to print and circulate a newsletter on Civic Education Awareness for Kenyan Women, which they planned to coincide with the elections held in Kenya last year. The newsletter was based on workshops that had already taken place.
Two further awards have been made during the early part of 1998 and these were: to East Anglia University for their research project, Study on the Future Landscapes in the West Oxfordshire Region, and to the Rural Stress Information Network (RSIN), based at Stoneleigh, to help them set up a data base.
Lady Higgs continues her work with the Rural Community Council, local government and diocesan affairs and has recently become a Trustee of the Rural Stress Information Network.
We are delighted to congratulate Elspeth and Robert Grant on the arrival of their first baby, Ellen Jane, last October.
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Kirstine Adamson has joined the team as part-time secretary.
Dr George Fotheringham was appointed Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for six months, with effect from 1 April 1998. George has long been involved in Indian and Aboriginal Affairs with the Canadian Government, and is currently leading a policy team mandated by and reporting directly to the Deputy Ministers for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Whilst with the Centre he will be undertaking research on economic development and governance of remote and sparsely populated regions. Catherine Murray, currently studying for her MSc in European Rural Development/RRRP at Aberdeen, is working with George over the summer.
March 1997
John Bryden, Mark Shucksmith, Deborah Roberts and John Farrington attended
the 48th European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) Seminar in Dijon.
The following papers were given: John Bryden - 'New Technology and Rural
Development' (in collaboration with Alan Sproull of Glasgow Caledonian University)
and 'Rural Development: Policy Orientations and the Cork Declaration' (in
collaboration with Patrick Commins of TEAGASC, Ireland); Mark Shucksmith -
'Rural Development and Social Exclusion: Conceptualising the Research Issues';
Deborah Roberts - 'Rural-Urban Interdependencies: Analysis using an
Interregional SAM-based Model' and John Farrington - 'New Pressures on Social
and Economic Access in Rural Areas: Car Dependence in Rural Scotland'.
A number of Arkleton Centre Associates attended the Agricultural Economics Society (AES) annual conference at the University of Edinburgh. Mark Shucksmith organised a Symposium on Rural Policy. He and John Bryden gave papers at the conference and Deborah Roberts gave a paper with Scott McDonald (Department of Economics, University of Sheffield) entitled 'Implications of BSE for the UK Economy: a CGE Analysis'.
April 1997
'Rural Employment: An International Perspective', edited by John Bryden and Ray
Bollman, was published by CAB International.
May 1997
John Bryden and Morag Paterson organised and co-ordinated a meeting in Bergen,
Norway of researchers, small enterprises and development agencies, from the
peripheral areas of Scotland and Scandinavia, on uses of Information and
Communications Technologies in relation to Marketing. The meeting was part of
the on-going IT-Scand Project, currently funded by the Scottish Office and the
Nordic Council of Ministers. The aim is to develop collaborative projects between
SMEs in Scotland and Scandinavia in the application of IT as a regional
development tool.
Mark Shucksmith and John Bryden met Martin Auld and Steve Sankey of the RSPB to discuss the respective interests and activities of the RSPB and the Centre, and the possible areas of co-operation.
The new Chancellor of Aberdeen University, Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, visited the Centre to discuss the vision, aims, funding and activities of the Centre.
Mark led a discussion on Rural Regeneration at the annual conference of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in Newcastle, Co Down.
Dr Gard Folkesdotter of the Swedish Institute for Housing Research, University of Uppsala, visited the Centre to give a seminar on Development and Migration of Small Settlements in Sweden.
June 1997
Mark Shucksmith visited the Centre for Rural Research, University of Trondheim,
Norway, to give two seminars and to discuss future research collaboration.
John Bryden successfully tendered to work on Integrated Rural Policy with the Land Use Policy Group, involving the Countryside Commission, English Nature, Countryside Council for Wales and Scottish National Heritage.
John attended a meeting of the European Observatory in Brussels in his capacity as co-ordinator of the Future Prospects Group of the Observatory. John and Morag organised a workshop for the Scottish participants in the IT-Scand project to further develop a series of IT-based projects which had been agreed at the Bergen meeting earlier in the year.
As co-ordinator of the IT-Scandinavia project, John visited Iceland with Dr Chris Bendixen of SINTEF (Nordic co-ordinator) and met with the Regional Development Institute and Nordic Council of Ministers Group, Holar Rural College and various companies with a view to involving Icelanders in the project.
July 1997
John Bryden organised a workshop on rural policy for the UK Land Use Policy
Group of the key land use agencies (Countryside Commission, English Nature,
Countryside Commission for Wales, SNH) in Newcastle. Mark Shucksmith and
Philip Lowe (Newcastle University) also contributed to this workshop.
John Bryden appeared on the lunchtime BBC programme, 'Grassroots' to discuss the European Commissions Agenda 2000 proposals for reform of CAP and Structural Funds.
John Bryden was invited to join the Scottish Office Rural Agenda Working Group as one of the two external assessors, the other being Deirdre Hutton, Chairman of Rural Forum Scotland.
August 1997
Visitors during August included Dr Fiona MacKenzie of Calton University, Ottawa,
Canada.
John Bryden attended the meeting of the International Association of Agricultural Economists in Sacramento, California, and gave a joint paper with Dr Ray Bollman (Statistics Canada) on rural employment in a workshop organised by Alberto Valdez (World Bank). John also visited Mexico en route.
September 1997
Visitors to the Centre included Professor Norio Tsuge, Tohoko University, Japan
and David Singe of the Australian Wheat Belt Development Commission.
Mark Shucksmith and John Bryden organised a workshop in Aberdeen for RSPB officials on Reforms to EU Agricultural and Structural Policy.
John Bryden attended a meeting of the European Rural Observatory in Brussels to prepare the November Colloquium - Rural Development: 800 LEADER Groups Present their Views. John addressed the conference on 'Future Prospects for Rural Areas' and also chaired a workshop on 'Co-ordinating the local, regional, national and European levels'.
During the month John attended meetings of the Scottish LEADER Network and the Scottish Office Rural Agenda Group (as assessor).
Almudena Buciega (Spain) started work experience with the centre as honorary research assistant, focusing on LEADER and qualitative evaluation techniques. This work built on her Masters dissertation, comparing LEADER's in Scotland and Spain.
Anthony O'Keeffe started work on his PhD, supported by an ESRC CASE award jointly with the Crofters Commission. Anthony is studying changing income opportunities for crofters and their families in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
October 1997
The Centre started its regular lunchtime seminar series with a presentation by John
Bryden on the implications of the EU's Agenda 2000 for rural areas.
John gave a keynote address on 'IT in the Northern Rim. to the meeting of the Scottish-Nordic business forum in Nairn. Participants were from Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, as well as various funding agencies.
Mark Shucksmith convened an all-day seminar in London of the seven teams of researchers working within the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Action in Rural Areas programme. This 350,000 pounds research programme, on which Mark works part- time as Programme Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is investigating the processes underlying key social problems within rural areas and identifying changes in policy and practice which might improve matters.
At the same seminar, Mark, Dr Euan Phimister (Economics) and Esperanza Vera (Land Economy) gave a paper presenting the results of their recent research into Social Exclusion in Rural Areas: A Preliminary Analysis of Rural Households in the BHPS (British Household Panel Survey).
Mark led a session on rural Policy at the Rural Forum Annual Conference in Oban and gave a paper on 'Rural Action: From Research to Policy'. At the same conference, Lord Sewel made a major announcement of the new Governments policy for rural Scotland.
November 1997
John was appointed as external assessor to the Land Reform Policy Group in the
Scottish Office, and gave an interview on Radio Scotland about the functions of the
Group. This compliments his appointment as external assessor on the new Inter-
Departmental Committee for Rural Affairs in the Scottish Office.
John gave a Plenary Paper on Future Issues for Rural Europe at the November Colloquium - Rural Development : 800 Leader Groups Present their Views- held in Brussels. He also chaired a workshop of over 100 participants on 'Co-ordinating the local, regional, national and European levels'.
John gave an invited paper on the insertion of the EU Structural Funds in Austria, following the 1995 Accession to a Symposium on Regional Policy in a Federal System - The Austrian Approach to a Co-operative Regional Policy, Brussels - 27/11/97.
Mark attended the European Symposium 'Towards a New Community Initiative for Rural Development' in Brussels, and participated in a workshop on Local Democracy, Participation and Equal Opportunity.
Mark also visited Queens University, Belfast, to conduct the examination of a doctoral thesis, and visited the Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle- upon-Tyne to give a seminar on 'The Dynamics of Low Income and Social Exclusion in Rural Britain' based on work with Euan Phimister and Esperanza Vera.
Ms Shirley P Dawe - a PhD student with the Centre - represented the Centre at the meeting of the team evaluating LEADER I Community Initiative in Brussels.
Arkleton lunchtime seminars at the Centre included :
Bill Pardy (Aberdeenshire Council - Community Development Officer) on
Sustainable Development, Pat Snowdon (Department of Agriculture) on Rural
Partnerships and Almudena Buciega on the implementation of community
empowerment ideas in the LEADERs in Spain and Scotland which she has been
studying.
Visitors to the Arkleton Centre included Dr Fiona Mackenzie (Carelton University, Canada) who is pursuing research on rural development in Harris.
December 1997
John Bryden took part in a seminar on Agenda 2000 at St James' Palace, chaired
by HRH The Prince of Wales and attended by Mr Frans Fischler, EU Commissioner
for Agriculture and Rural Development and the Rt Hon Jack Cunningham, Minister
of Agriculture.
John participated, as assessor, in meetings of the Scottish Office Land Reform Policy Group which were chaired by the Minister of State, Lord Sewel, and in the Inter-Departmental Committee for Rural Affairs. John also chaired a session on European Mountain Regions at the International Conference on Mountain Regions held at Oxford University. He attended a meeting of the European LEADER Observatory in Brussels to meet representatives of the National Networks and plan seminars and other activities for the coming year.
January 1998
John visited Queens University Belfast where he was external assessor for the
Gibson Chair of Rural Development. He also attended a Strategy Meeting of
Leirssin, the Gaelic Research Centre at Sabhal Mor Ostaig in Skye following his
appointment to its Advisory Board. The Board is chaired by Sir Kenneth Alexander.
John gave the opening address 'Challenges for European Rural Policies' at the
Conference on Development Perspectives for Rural Areas in Germany, organised
by the Federal Institute for Regional Planning during 'Green Week' in Berlin.
John attended a Highland Council meeting on a Strategic Vision for the Highlands in 2017.
Mark Shucksmith spent some time in Norway working with colleagues at the Centre for Rural Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, on a research proposal for the EU's FAIR Programme. This application for 930k ECU's has now been submitted, with the Arkleton Centre as proposed co-ordinator.
During January the Centre submitted research funding bids totalling 2 million pounds, mainly to the EU and Scottish Office.
Mark Shucksmith contributed to a day's small-group discussion of how to tackle Social Exclusion, with Scottish Office Ministers and officials and other leading authorities. The aim of the discussion was to help to inform the new Social Exclusion Unit within the Scottish Office, paralleling that within the Cabinet Office.
Mark attended a workshop organised by the National Lotteries Charities Board for Scotland, to advise on the evaluation of proposals and projects.
Mark also spoke at a Planning Exchange Conference in Glasgow on the subject of housing and economic regeneration.
As part of his work as Programme Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Action in rural Areas Programme, Mark chaired a number of project advisory group meetings in various parts of England.
February 1998
Mark was appointed to membership of the Scottish Advisory Group of the European
Union's Article 10 Programme for transnational co-operation in the Northern
Periphery of Europe, which involves collaborative projects between Norway,
Sweden, Finland and Scotland. Mark attended a conference in Bodo, Norway at
which he made a presentation entitled 'The development and transfer of new
knowledge and good practice in relation to the sustainable development of the
northern periphery'.
John spoke to the South West Association of Nature Conservationists at Dalry, Kirkudbrightshire, on rural policy issues. He also organised the Study Tour for Eastern Europeans and facilitated the annual Arkleton Trust Seminar (see under Arkleton Trust).
John Bryden and Mark Shucksmith have been awarded a contract by the Scottish Office to design an evaluation of the Laggan Community Forestry Initiative.
Everyone worked very hard to complete the bid to SHEFC (the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council) for the new research centre, and this was duly submitted during the month, with a large number of supporting letters from colleagues around the world.
March 1998
John Bryden met Gus MacDonald, chairman of the Cairngorm Partnership to
discuss land and related issues. He and Kate Robinson also met with Professor
Hannaford of the Department of Public health to discuss areas of joint research
interest in relation to rural health and welfare.
John attended the seminar on evaluation organised by the European Leader Observatory, and acted as rapporteur for two workshops.
John and Mark facilitated a lunchtime seminar to draft a response to the Governments discussion paper: Towards a Development Strategy for Rural Scotland.
John was invited by Professor Brian Duffield to join the ad hoc policy group of the University of the Highlands and Islands, and attended its first meeting in Inverness on 13 March to discuss the UHI response to the Governments rural strategy discussion paper
John attended a meeting of the Rural Agenda group at the Scottish Office.
Mark took part in a BBC programme - Countryfile - in Glasgow, discussing the crisis in farming, its effect on rural areas and rural poverty.
George and Janet Fotheringham arrived from Canada at the end of the month.
Murphy, C; Bryden, J M; Shucksmith, M with Mather, S & Callander, R (April 1998) Evaluation and monitoring of the Laggan Community Forest Partnership. Draft Final Report to the Scottish Office.
Bryden J M (April 1998) Property & the Parliament : setting the agenda. Paper on Land Reform given at Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Bryden, J M (March 1998) Towards a Framework for an Integrated Rural Policy. Final Report for the Land Use Policy Group.
Dawe, S P & Bryden, J M (March 1998) Competitive Advantage in the Rural Periphery: Redefining the Global-Local Nexus. Plenary Paper, International Conference on Urban Development: A Challenge for Frontier Regions, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, April 1998.
Bryden J M; Liversedge, A & Storey, C (March 1998) Towards more sustainable rural development. A draft report for CPRE (The Council for the Protection of Rural England).
Bryden J M (January 1998) Rural society and space. A paper given in Berlin at the Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building & Urban Development Congress on development perspectives for rural areas in Germany.
Van den Bor, W ; Bryden, J M & Fuller, A M (1997) Rethinking rural human resource management - the impact of globalisation and rural restructuring on rural education and training in Western Europe. Published by the Mansholt Institute, Wageningen, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6754-517-1.
Bryden, J M (November 1997) Regional policy in a federal system - the Austrian approach to a co-operative regional policy. Paper given at Symposium in Brussels, 27/11/97.
Bryden, J M (November 1997) Some future challenges for rural Europe. A plenary keynote address at the LEADER European Symposium in Brussels, 10/11/97.
Bryden, J M (November 1997) Agenda 2000 : rural development aspects : preliminary analysis. Paper given to a seminar in December at St James Palace, London.
Chapman, P; Phimister, E; Shucksmith, M; Upward, R & Vera-Toscano, E (October 1997) The dynamics of low income and social exclusion in rural Britain : a preliminary study of rural households using the British Household Panel Survey. Working Paper 98/01 : Work, opportunity and low pay in rural households : some descriptive dynamics using the BHPS. Working Paper 02/98 : Dynamics of low income in rural households : exploratory analysis using the BHPS. A report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Bryden J M (October 1997) Information technology and rural economic development in the periphery: opportunities for SME collaboration between Scotland and Scandinavia. A paper give to the SME Forum, organised by Highlands and Islands Enterprise, in Nairn.
Bryden J M (July 1997) Rural renewal in Europe : global tendencies and local responses. Draft dossier for the European LEADER Observatory.
Bryden J M (June 1997) Prospects for EU rural policy after Cork and the Cohesion Conference : some issues for rural Scotland? Discussion paper for Rural Forum Scotland.
Bollman, R & Bryden J M (March 1997) Rural employment : an international perspective. Joint edited. CAB International.
Shortall, S & Shucksmith, M (March 1997) Rural development in practice ; issues arising in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Paper given at Agricultural Economics Society Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Disadvantage in rural areas (with Chapman, Clark, Black, Conway). Rural Development Commission, London
Shucksmith, M (1997) Rural Scotland today: people, perceptions and policies - overarching document (with McHenry, Chapman, Henderson). Rural Forum Scotland, Perth.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Evaluation of Lochaber LEADER 1 (with Conway). Paper to seminar on LEADER evaluation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Shucksmith, M (1997) A review of Scottish Homes' Rural Policy (with Chapman). Invited paper to Scottish Homes research symposium, Stirling.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Housing and rural regeneration. Paper given at the annual conference of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Newcastle, Co Down.
Shucksmith, M (March 1997) Rural development and social exclusion : the case for Scotland. Paper given at the Triennial Congress of the European Society of Rural Sociologists, Chania, Crete.
Shucksmith, M & Shortall, S (1997) Integrated rural development : issues for the Scottish experience. Paper given at the Triennial Congress of the European Society of Rural Sociologists, Chania, Crete.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Rural and regional policy implementation : issues arising for the Scottish experience. Keynote paper to the Nordic-Scottish University Network for Rural Development Conference, Ristiina, Finland.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Rural development and social exclusion : the case of Scotland. Seminar paper to the Centre for Rural Research, University of Trondheim, Norway (with P Chapman)
Shucksmith M (1997) Farm household behaviour and the transition to post - productivism. Seminar paper to the Centre for Rural Research, University of Trondheim, Norway.
Shucksmith, M (1997) Translating rural research into policy. Paper to Rural Forum (Scotland) Annual Conference, Oban.
Shucksmith, M (1997) The dynamics of low income and social exclusion in rural Britain. Seminar paper to the Housing Research Group, University of Newcastle-upon- Tyne.
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