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Sociologia Ruralis
Published on behalf of the European Society for Rural Sociology
Edited by:
Henry Buller
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 16/99 Sociology
Impact Factor: 1.41
Sociologia Ruralis reflects the diversity of European social-science research on rural areas and related issues. The complexity and diversity of rural problems require multi and interdisciplinary approaches. Over the past 40 years Sociologia Ruralis has been an international forum for social scientists engaged in a wide variety of disciplines focusing on social, political and cultural aspects of rural development. Sociologia Ruralis covers a wide range of subjects, ranging from farming, natural resources and food systems to rural communities, rural identities and the restructuring of rurality.
TopNews and Announcements
Sociologia Ruralis Anniversary Virtual Issues
Read the latest Virtual Issues from the Sociologia Ruralis on Food and Farming, Rural Development and The Gendered Rural, edited by Henry Buller.
Sociologia Ruralis is now one of the featured journal on Sociology Lens. Sociology Lens is an essential new free resource which is a valuable teaching tool for anyone who would like to give their students an example of theory at work.
Online content now available back to Volume 1 (1960)
All back issues of this journal are available online. Click here to browse contents and abstracts. For further information on how to access these articles please visit our Librarian Site.
Manuscript Central
Authors are now able to submit their paper to Sociologia Ruralis online using Manuscript Central. Benefits of online submission include:
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TopHighlights
You can now access a free online sample issue of Sociologia Ruralis - simply click here
Networking: Social Capital and Identities in European Rural Development
Jo Lee, Arnas Arnason, Andrea Nightingale and Mark Shucksmith
Possible Food Economies: a Methodological Framework for Exploring Food Production-Consumption Relationships
Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneatsey, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Elizabeth Dowley and Helena Tuomainen
Both these highly accessed articles are available free - click on the links to be directed to the full text articles.
Recent Special Issue
Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society Era
Guest Edited by Hilary Tovey
The articles in this special issue owe their existence to the authors' participation in the research project CORASON ('A cognitive approach to rural sustainable development'), a 30-month (2004-2007) cross-national project which was funded by the EU under its Framework Programme 6. CORASON set out to explore the dynamic relations between the different forms of knowledge revealed in development and sustainable development projects in rural settings, with the broader aim of understanding something of the diverse ways in which contemporary European rural society is being drawn into a 'knowledge society'. Read more.
