Introduction : winning and losing in Europe's rural areas / Doris Schmied
1. Employment restructuring in rural areas / Anne Green
2. Agriculture on the verge of the 21[superscript st] century : the challenge of coming to terms with the environment / Maryvonne Bodiguel
3. Global integration and the industrialization of the countryside / Christos Kalantaridis
4. Sustainable rural tourism and rural change / Derek Hall
5. Rural areas in the digital economy / Jeremy Millard
6. Supply of goods and services in sparsely populated regions : the example of Sweden's glesbygd / Gunter Loffler
7. Incomers and locals in the European countryside / Doris Schmied
8. situation of young people in rural areas / Walter Bien, Lothar Lappe and Richard Rathgeber
9. Older people in rural Europe : a comparative analysis / Thomas Scharf, G. Clare Wenger, Frans Thissen and Vanessa Burholt
10. Structural funds and gender mainstreaming : counting heads or changing structures? / Gunnel Forsberg
11. Tackling social exclusion : an evaluation of local exchange and trading schemes (LETS) / Colin C. Williams
12. booming country - a booming countryside? : the Celtic tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas / Mary Cawley
13. Mountainous areas - forever losing? : the examples of Oberallgau (Germany) and Sierra de Francia (Spain) / Alois Muller
14. Spatial restructuring of rural Finland / Markku Tykkylainen
15. Social capital and rural development : from win-lose to win-win with the LEADER initiative / Gilda Farrell and Samuel Thirion.