The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a gl...Lasīt vairāk
The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a gl...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a methodology for holistically crossing borders and connecting issues to nurture new design thinking and collaborative problem solving. It will allow designers, architects, policymakers and citizens to envisage the solutions to...Lasīt vairāk
Design thinking and the problem-solving process of design is a strategic resource. Through creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship it can help communities optimize limited land and water resources in urban and rural landscapes. To address the...Lasīt vairāk
Between Land and Water reveals topologies within the changing rurban landscape of the Yongning river plain in China. It explores the interwoven relationships between the cultural meanings of places associated with water, the ecological co...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, dive...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, dive...Lasīt vairāk
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. This volume...Lasīt vairāk
This prescient book discusses the importance of reducing the environmental impacts of economic growth in agricultural regions. It examines the relationship between efforts to achieve economically viable food production in marginal and peripheral inla...Lasīt vairāk
In the context of digital transformation and rapid advances in information and communication technologies, as well as urbanization and climate change, effective land administration has become increasingly important. The UNECE Working Party on Land A...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). It also studies the implications of variations...Lasīt vairāk
This anthology of writing is grounded in the idea that community ownership of building projects makes for better building, empowers communities and ensures characterful neighbourhoods....Lasīt vairāk
Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply interconnected, we are als...Lasīt vairāk
This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning sixty years and two distinct political regimes.Professor Mostafa Azkia has spent many decades demonstrating the importance of participatory rural development, not...Lasīt vairāk
Words from the Hedge is a passionate evocation of the history, beauty and importance of our hedgerows by a craftsman who has been laying hedges for almost three decades and has the scars to prove it. Hedges are as old as civilisation and...Lasīt vairāk
Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an en...Lasīt vairāk
Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic...Lasīt vairāk
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in...Lasīt vairāk
