Books By Mark (Newcastle University, UK) Shucksmith - Author

Mark Shucksmith is Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Social Renewal, UK, where he is also Professor of Planning. His main areas of research include rural development, social exclusion in rural areas, rural housing, agricultural change, and rural policy. His books include Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK (Routledge, 2012); Future Directions in Rural Development (Carnegie UK Trust, 2012); Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe (Ashgate, 2009); CAP and the Regions: the territorial impact of the CAP (CABI, 2005), Young People and Rural Policy in Europe (Ashgate, 2004), Housing in the European Countryside (Routledge, 2003), and Exclusive Countryside? Social Inclusion and Regeneration in Rural Britain (JRF, 2000). In 2007-2008 he chaired the Scottish Government’s Committee of Inquiry into Crofting, which led to the Crofting Reform Act 2010. He has also served on the UK Government’s Commission for Rural Communities, Affordable