External links

This is a list of external websites related to rural development, including people, projects, information services and organisations.

Organisations

• ESRS: European Society of rural sociology
• DSA: Development Studies Association (UK)
• DEFRA: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• CRE: Centre for the Rural Economy, University of Newcastle
• Rural Research Gateway: University of Nottingham
• CRR: Centre for Rural Research, University of Exeter
• PyGyWG: Participatory Geographies Working Group
• Macaulay: Landuse research Institute

Information services

• ID21 Rural Development: Policy and research information,with a developing country focus
• RuralNet: UK-based online community

Projects

• SLIM: social learning for the integrated management and sustainable use of water at catchment scale

Personal sites

• Gusztáv Nemes: Hungarian based sociologist.
• Chris High: UK based lecturer and researcher

Rures.net provides website space for reporting on rural research projects and related initiatives.
It is owned and maintained by Chris High of the UK's Open University.