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List of Contents Number 1 Articles L. Jarosz and J. Qazi The geography of Washington’s world apple: global expressions in a local landscape S. Grimes Rural areas in the information society: diminishing distance or increasing learning capacity? R. Liepins New energies for an old idea: reworking approaches to ‘community’ in contemporary rural studies M. J. Broadway Planning for change in small towns or trying to avoid the slaughterhouse blues M. Winter Strong policy or weak policy? The environmental impact of the 1992 reforms to the CAP arable regime in Great Britain N. Argent Whither the lender of last resort?: the rise and fall of public farm credit in Australia and New Zealand P. Chaney and K. Sherwood The resale of right to buy dwellings: a case study of migration and social change in rural England A. D. Kidd, J. P. A. Lamers, Privatising agricultural extension: caveat emptor P. P. Ficarelli and V. Hoffmann C. Morris and C. Young ‘Seed to shelf, ‘teat to table’, ‘barley to beer’ and ‘womb to tomb’: discourses of food quality and quality assurance schemes in the UK J. Beedell and T. Rehman 117 Using social-psychology models to understand farmers’ conservation behaviour 129 Book reviews Number 2 Articles H. Matthews, M. Taylor, K. Sherwood, F. Tucker and M. Limb Growing-up in the countryside: children and the rural idyll M. Haw, C. Cocklin and D. Mercer A pinch of salt: landowner perception and adjust- ment to the salinity hazard in Victoria, Australia O. Jones and J. Little Rural Challenge(s): partnership and new rural gov- ernance S. E. Baker and D. W. Macdonald Foxes and foxhunting on farms in Wiltshire: a case study L. Herbert-Cheshire Contemporary strategies for rural community development in Australia: a governmentality perspective B. Ilbery and M. Kneafsey Producer constructions of quality in regional speci- ality food production: a case study from south west England H. Caraveli A comparative analysis on intensification and ex- tensification in mediterranean agriculture: dilemmas for LFAs policy A. Stockdale, A. Findlay and D. Short The repopulation of rural Scotland: opportunity and threat Book reviews Number 3 Editorial C. Anderson and M. Bell The social economy of rural life: an introduction Articles L. Busch The moral economy of grades and standards M. Bell and P. Lowe Regulated freedoms: the market and the state, agriculture and the environment C. C. Hinrichs Embeddedness and local food systems: notes on two types of direct agricultural market A. Bonanno The crisis of representation: the limits of liberal democracy in the global era R. Liepins Exploring rurality through ‘community’: discourses, practices and spaces shaping Australian and New Zealand rural ‘communities’ B. Brandth and M. S. Haugen From lumberjack to business manager: masculinity in the Norwegian forestry press J. Egdell Consultation on the countryside premium scheme: creating a ‘market’ for information E. Nel and T. Binns Rural self-reliance strategies in South Africa: community initiatives and external support in the for- mer black homelands K. Falconer 379 Farm-level constraints on agri-environmental scheme participation: a transactional perspective 395 Book reviews Number 4 Articles J. Murdoch Networks — a new paradigm of rural development? H. J. Mayer and M. Greenberg Responding to economic change in remote, rural regions: federal installations in Idaho and Wash- ington K. Scott, J. Park and C. Cocklin From ‘sustainable rural communities’ to ‘social sus- tainability’: giving voice to diversity in Manga- kahia Valley, New Zealand C. Ray Endogenous socio-economic development in the European union — issues of evaluation W. B. Beyers and P. B. Nelson Contemporary development forces in the nonmet- ropolitan west: new insights from rapidly growing communities L. Owen, W. Howard and M. Waldron Conflicts over farming practices in Canada: the role of interactive conflict resolution approaches J. D. Garcia Pérez and H. Groome Spanish forestry planning dilemmas: technocracy and participation S. Rahman Women’s employment in Bangladesh agriculture: composition, determinants and scope Book reviews