Agrarian morphology ; Agrarian structure ; Agricultural area of a parish ; Agricultural land use ; Arable land ; Ireland ; Rural area ; Rural settlement ; Settlement ; Village
a largely inefficient farming system. The paper demonstrates that even within one parish these farm clusters form, at any one time, was far from uniform and classless.
Reformulating the closed parish thesis : associations, interests, and interaction
Historical geography ; Land ; Landed estate ; Legislation ; Nineteenth Century ; Parish ; Poverty ; Power ; Rural area ; Rural community ; Seventeenth Century ; United Kingdom
Social, economic and demographic changes of rural areas in Lithuania
Changing functions of rural areas in the Baltic Sea Region
Demographic change ; Economic restructuring ; Farm ; Lithuania ; Rural area ; Rural parish ; Rural population ; Rural settlement ; Social change ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution
The article deals with the problems of the economic and demographic situation in the rural areas of Lithuania ; contains a brief review of distribution of farms according to the size and area of cultivated land. Special attention is paid
Patterns in the survival of Catholic national parishes, 1940-1980
In 1980, the USA contained more than 1,000 ethnic Catholic communities that have maintained their own churches. But about one third of all such parishes in 1940 did not exist in 1980| those founded by German speaking people have undergone the most
An analysis of regional voting patterns, by parish, for Jamaica, between 1959 and 1986. Traditional one-party voting tendencies in the majority of parishes have become eroded as the country has come to have more uniform regional voting trends. - (DB)
The mental maps of a sample of 207 residents of Barbados are analysed. A major contrast is revealed between the low imageability of the northern parishes and the enhanced desirability of the south-western coastal strip, especially the Christ Church
area, using graphical, correlation and regression analyses of mean residential desirability scores. The implications of the findings for physical development planning are assessed. (MPM).
Living conditions ; Poland ; Post-communism ; Rural parish ; Rural population
This paper aims to define relations between living conditions of rural inhabitants and function of the area. Better infra-structural outfit and higher economic potential are suspected to characterise communes with non-agricultural functions
Refiguring geography: parish maps of common ground
The Parish Maps Project, initiated by the environment and arts group Common Ground, raises questions around the social role of mapping and the production of local knowledge. The work and philosophy of Common Ground are introduced and the key themes
The geopolitics of the Irish-Catholic parish in nineteenth-century Montreal
Irish Catholics in 19th Montreal encountered a cultural environment very different from that experienced by their compatriots in most cities of eastern North America. They had to overcome numerous obstacles in order to obtain churches and parishes
Agrarian structure ; Agricultural area of a parish ; Andalusia ; Farming system ; Geosystem ; Historical geography ; Rural area ; Rural landscape ; Spain ; Village
Agricultural area of a parish ; Agricultural land use ; Belgium ; Cultural capacity ; Enclosed landscape ; Farm ; Hedge ; Liège ; Natural environment ; Rural area ; Rural landscape
Agricultural area of a parish ; Agricultural intensification ; Agricultural revolution ; Agriculture ; Farm income ; Farming system ; India ; Production cost ; Rain farming ; Semi-arid area ; Sustainable development
Agricultural area of a parish ; Burgundy ; Côte-d'Or ; France ; Outer conurbation area ; Plots of land ; Rural planning ; Territory ; Terroir ; Village