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Rural Development Institute

LibGuide for Rural Development students at BU!

Welcome to the Rural Development Institute Guide

This guide is intended to help you find resources for Rural Development Institute and information from

  • Research works on RDI's five strategic research directions
  • Print and electronic books and publications
  • Journals, reports, presentations and sample e-books
  • Theses, webinars and research briefs
  • Trustworthy internet sites and web resources

Use the tabs on the side to navigate through the pages of the guide.

Featured Research Briefs

Episode 1 of The Research Center Series

The Rural Development Institute
Presenter: William Ashton

Featured books on Rural Development

Rural Tourism Development

Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with both the nature of change in rural areas and tourism development, the dynamics and impacts of integrating these two dramatic shifts are not well known but yet are becoming increasingly provocative discourses for study. This book links changes at the local, rural community level to broader, more structural considerations of globalization and allows for a deeper, more theoretically sophisticated consideration of the various forces and features of rural tourism development. While Canadian in content, the cases and discussions presented in this book can be considered generally relevant to any rural region, continentally and globally, that has undertaken or is considering rural tourism development.