Terry Marsden is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, and Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University, UK.

In the end, food matters, rural communities matter, and sustainable place-making matters. Only someone with Marsden’s erudition and conceptual reach can pull these vital spheres of life together into a vibrant and coherent whole.

• List of FiguresList of Tables and BoxesAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Governing for Agri-Food Security and Rural Sustainability: Antecedents and Transitions2. Contested Sustainabilities in Agri-Food and Rural Development: Exploring Sustainable Pathways of Green Growth and the Bio-Economy in the UK3. Socialising and Spatialising the Bio-Economy: Reconstructing Natural Powers4. An Alternative Model: Exploring the 'New Rural Paradigm' and the Rural Eco-Economy in Europe5. Evolving Webs of Agri-Food and Rural Development in the UK: The Case of Devon and Shetland6. Towards a Sustainability Science and Place-Making for Rural and Agri-Food DevelopmentReferencesIndex

Terry Marsden is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, and Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University, UK.

In the end, food matters, rural communities matter, and sustainable place-making matters. Only someone with Marsden’s erudition and conceptual reach can pull these vital spheres of life together into a vibrant and coherent whole.

• List of FiguresList of Tables and BoxesAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Governing for Agri-Food Security and Rural Sustainability: Antecedents and Transitions2. Contested Sustainabilities in Agri-Food and Rural Development: Exploring Sustainable Pathways of Green Growth and the Bio-Economy in the UK3. Socialising and Spatialising the Bio-Economy: Reconstructing Natural Powers4. An Alternative Model: Exploring the 'New Rural Paradigm' and the Rural Eco-Economy in Europe5. Evolving Webs of Agri-Food and Rural Development in the UK: The Case of Devon and Shetland6. Towards a Sustainability Science and Place-Making for Rural and Agri-Food DevelopmentReferencesIndex

Terry Marsden is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, and Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University, UK.

In the end, food matters, rural communities matter, and sustainable place-making matters. Only someone with Marsden’s erudition and conceptual reach can pull these vital spheres of life together into a vibrant and coherent whole.

• List of FiguresList of Tables and BoxesAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Governing for Agri-Food Security and Rural Sustainability: Antecedents and Transitions2. Contested Sustainabilities in Agri-Food and Rural Development: Exploring Sustainable Pathways of Green Growth and the Bio-Economy in the UK3. Socialising and Spatialising the Bio-Economy: Reconstructing Natural Powers4. An Alternative Model: Exploring the 'New Rural Paradigm' and the Rural Eco-Economy in Europe5. Evolving Webs of Agri-Food and Rural Development in the UK: The Case of Devon and Shetland6. Towards a Sustainability Science and Place-Making for Rural and Agri-Food DevelopmentReferencesIndex