Rethinking rural policy under new labour

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-44

  Ward, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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