An introduction to research into socio-economic restructuring in resource communities / Cecily Neil and Markku Tykkyläinen -- A rural community faces the turmoil of the welfare state: the case of Härjedalen, Sweden / Lars Olof Persson -- Double or quits: restructuring and survival on the margin of the South Australian wheatbelt / Peter J. Smailes -- Market forces and community development in rural Poland / Jan Łoboda, Zbigniew Rog, and Markku Tykkyläinen -- Coping with socialist restructuring and the transition to a market economy in rural Hungary / István Süli-Zakar [and others] -- Restructuring and articulation of the modes of production in Russian Karelian villages / Eira Varis -- The role of a non-governmental organization in Vietnamese rural communities in transition / Cecily Neil [and others] -- The effect of transition on a village in south central Bulgaria the case of a lead-zinc plant / Alfred Levinson, Cecily Neil, and Markku Tykkyläinen -- Mill closure, option for a restart: a case-study of local response in a Finnish mill community / Jarmo Kortelainen -- Toward translocal communities: a mine in Western Australia / Markku Tykkyläinen --Mining to tourism: economic restructuring in Kellogg, Idaho, USA / Harley Johansen -- Extracting local.

resources: the tourism route to development in Kolari, Lapland, Finland / Heikki Jussila and Jari Järviluoma -- The development of community-based rural tourism in Ireland / Micháel Ó Cinnéide and John Burke -- Factors in local economic development / Cecily Neil and Markku Tykkyläinen -- Comparing the key actions of the 1990s' rural restructuring / Markku Tykkyläinen -- A multicausal theory of local economic development Markku Tykkyläinen.