Rural development

Animal production and natural resources utilisation in the Mediterranean mountain areas

by European Association for Animal Production, Rosati, Andrea, Mosconi, C., Georgoudis, A., (Andreas), Hellenic Society of Animal Production, International Mediterranean Symposium Animal Production and Natural Resources Utilisation in the Mediterranean Mountain Areas, Iōannina, Greece)

fromEAAP publication

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Mediterranean inhabitants depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Livestock production and forestry are key sources of income yet are carried out under harsh conditions such as limited land resources, marginal agricultural conditions, isolation, and scant equipment an…

Integrated watershed management in rainfed agriculture

by Rockström, Johan, Wani, Suhas P., Sahrawat, K. L.

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This book provides a presentation of the realization of improved rainfed agriculture yield in semi-arid and dry land areas. The incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. Besid…

Informal institutions and rural development in China

by Hu, Biliang

fromRoutledge studies on the Chinese economy

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"This book shows the great importance of informal institutions on the economic and social development of rural China. It examines the relationship between informal institutions and rural development in China since the end of the 1970s, focusing in particular on three major infor…

Informal institutions and rural development in China

by Hu, Biliang

fromRoutledge studies on the Chinese economy

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Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focus…

Informal institutions and rural development in China

by Hu, Biliang

fromRoutledge studies on the Chinese economy

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"This book shows the great importance of informal institutions on the economic and social development of rural China. It examines the relationship between informal institutions and rural development in China since the end of the 1970s, focusing in particular on three major infor…

Rural people and communities in the 21st century: resilience and transformation

by Brown, David L., (David Louis), Schafft, Kai A.

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Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic and environmental roles at a time in which societies are rapidly urbanizing, and the identities of local places are increasingly subsumed by flows of people, information and economic activity across global …

Women in the Soviet countryside: women's roles in rural development in the Soviet …

by Bridger, Sue

fromSoviet and East European studies

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This study looks at the Soviet experience of development as reflected in the lives of rural women. It attempts to analyze the gains made and the problems still faced by rural women in a country where development policies have been accompanied by a formal commitment to sexual equ…

Women in the Soviet countryside: women's roles in rural development in the Soviet …

by Bridger, Susan

fromSoviet and East European studies

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This books looks at the Societ experience of development as reflected in the lives of rural women. It attempts to analyse the gains made and the problems still faced by rural women in a country where development policies have been accompanied by a formal commitment to sexual equ…

Population and development projects in Africa

by Clarke, John Innes, Khogali, M., (Mustafa), Kosinski, Leszek A., International Geographical Union, Commission on Population Geography

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Articles, comparison of the impact of development projects on population dynamics and rural development trends in Sudan and other African countries - discusses rural urban disparity, social implications of internal migration and deliberate rural population geographic distributio…

Introduction to Rural Planning

by Kidd, Sue, Gallent, Nick, Juntti, Meri

fromNatural and built environment series

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Charting the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the British countryside, Introduction to Rural Planning provides an introduction to rural planning for students on planning, geography and related programmes.

Introduction to Rural Planning

by Gallent, Nick

fromNatural and built environment series

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Providing an overview of rural (spatial) planning for students on planning, geography and related programmes, this book charts the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the British countryside, its landscape, its communities and its economies in the twentieth ce…