Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development

Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development
Author: Armin Kratzer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000175715

This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of globalization, digitalization, environmental challenges and the search for sustainable development continue, rural and urban areas around the world become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. This book contributes to understanding the role of this growing interconnectedness from an economic geographical perspective. It does so by theoretically and empirically addressing the various existing linkages, such as food networks, value chains, and regional governance at local, regional, national and international levels. In doing so, contributions extend and contrast existing approaches dealing with urban and rural areas separately by considering the interplay between these two as well as their consequences for sustainability transition pathways. This edited volume adds to the academic and policy debate by bringing together a variety of concepts and themes in order to shift the research and policy agenda away from simple dichotomy to different notions of rural-urban linkages. Offering multidisciplinary insights into rural-urban linkages, the book will be of interest to decision-makers, practitioners and researchers in the fields of economic geography, regional planning, food studies and economics.

Local Organizations

Local Organizations
Author: Milton Jacob Esman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Comparison of the performance of rural area local level associations (cooperatives, farmers associations, rural worker organizations, womens organizations, etc.) in developing countries - studies their role as intermediaries, and their neglect in development theory and development research; considers types and tasks of organisations, structural factors, obstacles to their activities and practices to improve them; discusses strategies to strengthen organisations and their contacts with governments and aid institutions. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor

Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor
Author: David K. Leonard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1982
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Research report, rural development, development administration, decentralization, rural institutions, developing countries - rural area poverty alleviation, case study of the USA, role of rural cooperatives and the small farm sector in agricultural development, rural worker organizations, community participation in primary health care, obstacles. Diagram, references, table.