This title was first published in 2001. Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade.

I: New Perspectives on Community Development; 1: Looking to the Land: Regional Imagery, Quality Products and Development Strategy in Marginal Rural Regions; 2: New Public Management and Peripheral Regions; II: The Changing Fortunes of Farming and Fishing in the Economies of Marginal Regions; 3: Reflections on the Swedish Policy Responses to the Fisheries Crash of 1967; 4: How are Young People Coping with Economic Restructuring?; 5: Surviving the Farm Crisis: Ways Forward for Farmers in South West Wales; 6: Strategic Marginalisation and Coping Mechanisms: Farm Households in North West France; III: Resources and Constraints in Community Development; 7: The Problem of the Outsourcing of Service Provision and its Impact on Marginal Regions; 8: Crafts Producers on the Celtic Fringe: Marginal Lifestyles in Marginal Regions?; 9: The Economic Impact of Welsh National Nature Reserves; 10: The Politics of Local Land-Use Planning in Norway; 11: Differing Agendas in Community Development: The Case of Self-Build; 12: Fighting for Survival: A Comparison of Two Irish Community Development Movements; IV: Comparative Perspectives on Marginality and Regionality; 13: Continuity and Change in the Rural Economy: Flexibility as a Tradition; 14: Appropriating the Margins, Creating a Centre: The Group of Seven and the Construction of Canadian National Identity; Conclusion; 15: New Directions in Community Development