Rural category: 418 books
Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
Taking the Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increasingly, these communities are compelled to reimagine the paths that lead not only to economic success, but also to the cultural, social, environmental,...
Hollowing Out the Middle
The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class “stayers”; ambitious and college-bound “achievers”;...
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing...
ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development
Addressing the Digital Divide
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
While technology has had a considerable impact on humanity’s progress, it can also fuel inequality and tension. Considerable opportunities exist for investigating the link between ICT design and individual and social development. ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development: Addressing...
Fighting for the Farm
Rural America Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors—anthropologists...
by Toyohiro Kono
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Composed of a series of 12 articles, this work analyzes China's rural reforms. The articles cover such topics as the responsibility system, privatization, industrialization, social conflict, urban-rural relations and rural urbanization.
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher...
by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
"This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the past, peasants and their seemingly simple production models have been criticized for being unable to fully meet the needs of modern society, especially...
Farmers Helping Farmers
The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
One of the largest volunteer movements in the twentieth century, local farm and home bureau organizations have been woefully underrepresented in socio-political studies of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Nancy K. Berlage addresses this omission with an insightful look at how bureau members put...
Agrarian Transformation in Western India
Economic Gains and Social Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transformation: colonial, post- colonial, and neoliberal. This work combines macro and micro economic data, economic and noneconomic phenomena, and quantitative...
by Sanjay Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The difference between urban centres and rural areas may seem so obvious that definitions should not be an issue. However, there can be major variations in the ways in which different nations define what is an urban centre. The criteria used include population size and density, and availability of...
The Financialization of Agri-Food Systems
Contested Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. The premise of this book is that the actions of financial actors, and their financial logics, are transforming...
Singlewide
Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public...