New Labour's Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain Since 1997

NEW LABOUR’S COUNTRYSIDE......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
List of tables and boxes......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 6
Introduction......Page 12
The political construction of the countryside......Page 16
Labour and the political construction of rural Britain......Page 19
Constructing New Labour’s countryside......Page 23
Deconstructing New Labour’s countryside?......Page 28
Overview of this volume......Page 31
The meaning of modernisation......Page 38
1997 to 2000: producing the Rural White Paper......Page 40
2001 to 2003: the disruption of the foot and mouth crisis......Page 43
2004 onwards: the rural strategy and the eclipse of rural policy......Page 46
Conclusions: New Labour, modernisation and the countryside......Page 48
New Labour’s regional agenda and its impact on rural policy......Page 54
Problematising the rural as an object of government......Page 56
Modernising the delivery of rural policy......Page 58
Devolution and rural policy beyond England......Page 63
Concluding comments: on constructing rural policy in a devolved environment......Page 65
Introduction......Page 68
International economic change and the British countryside......Page 70
International social change and the British countryside......Page 74
International political change and the British countryside......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 82
Introduction......Page 90
‘Carnage by computer’: dealing with an epidemic......Page 91
FMD and the politics of resistance......Page 93
Learning the lessons......Page 96
New policies and institutions for farming, food and the rural economy......Page 99
Conclusions......Page 101
Introduction......Page 104
Labour and hunting in historical perspective......Page 105
The Foster Bill......Page 107
The Burns Inquiry......Page 111
The political endgame......Page 115
Conclusion......Page 120
Introduction......Page 124
Evolving debate – 1997 to 2003......Page 125
Sustainable communities and planning reform......Page 131
The South East of England......Page 135
Conclusions......Page 139
Introduction......Page 144
The significance of countryside access and rurality in national politics......Page 145
Old Labour/New Labour: the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act......Page 148
The 2000 Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act......Page 150
Discussion......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 154
Agricultural crisis and policy development......Page 158
CAP reform and the liberalisation of world trade......Page 161
Animal disease and risk management......Page 164
Modernisation, policy delivery and stakeholder interaction......Page 167
What is ‘new’ about New Labour?......Page 171
Community development and governance in New Labour’s rural policy......Page 178
Mobilising community involvement in development and governance......Page 184
Evaluating the impacts of government through community......Page 188
Conclusion......Page 194
Introduction......Page 198
New Labour and welfare reform......Page 199
New Labour’s approach to poverty and welfare in rural areas......Page 201
Evaluating the impacts of welfare reform in rural areas......Page 206
Conclusion......Page 208
Introduction......Page 214
Contexts......Page 215
New Labour and rural policing......Page 216
Conclusions......Page 224
Introduction......Page 230
Governing the New Deal: partnership frameworks......Page 232
Rurality and delivery......Page 237
Conclusion......Page 245
Introduction......Page 250
The National Park system......Page 251
Changing policy and governance structures......Page 253
The Review of English National Park Authorities......Page 256
Where next for the National Parks?......Page 258
Conclusions......Page 260
Introduction......Page 266
The social and economic impact of Labour’s rural policy......Page 267
The political impact of Labour’s rural policy......Page 272
A rural third way?......Page 275
The institutional legacy......Page 278
The politicisation of the countryside......Page 280
Index......Page 286