Urban Rural Interfaces

Author : David N. Laband,B. Graeme Lockaby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780891186151

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Urban-Rural Interfaces by David N. Laband,B. Graeme Lockaby Pdf

What is the urban–rural interface? Is it a visual phenomenon, a place where country gives way to neighborhoods and shopping areas in a startling way? Is it a simple factor of population density? There is nothing simple about the urban–rural interface—editors David Laband, Graeme Lockaby, and Wayne Zipperer present the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary complexities at play. Organized into three sections on changing ecosystems, changing human dimensions, and the dynamic integration of human and natural systems, this book is a must read for anyone who works in the real world, where natural and human systems are joined. This is the new sustainability science, an emerging discipline that integrates social and economic values with the physical, chemical, and ecological functions of ecosystems. The goal is optimal management, since our human impact is often significant and far-reaching in both space and time.

Author : Ellen Hoffmann,Andreas Buerkert,Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel,Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh,Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj,Prem José Vazhacharickal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030799735

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The Rural-Urban Interface by Ellen Hoffmann,Andreas Buerkert,Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel,Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh,Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj,Prem José Vazhacharickal Pdf

Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems. Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl. The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.

Author : Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781942876298

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Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa by Shogo Kudo,Orleans Mfune,Melissa Hansen,Jackline Nyerere Pdf

This book highlights the important role of the complex nature of interactions between rural and urban areas in Africa and how this relates to sustainable development on the continent – one with a fast urbanization rate. The volume critiques the widely held assumption of a societal divide where rural areas are mostly agricultural, whilst urban areas engage in industry and services. Contributors provide conceptual arguments and present case studies in Africa which illustrate the complex and multifaceted interdependencies between cities and rural areas, through the flow of natural resources, people, capital, information, goods and services which directly impacts the socio-ecological as well as economic sustainability of these spaces. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.

Author : Duncan McGregor
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849775878

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The Peri-Urban Interface by Duncan McGregor Pdf

Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and innovative approaches and solutions. This book, authored by top researchers and practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the impacts of rapid urbanization on livelihoods, poverty and resources in the peri-urban zones in diverse African, Asian, Latin American and Caribbean contexts. Topics include peri-urban resource sustainability, ecosystems and societies and environmental changes in peri-urban zones. Rich case studies cover production systems and livelihoods including the impacts of irrigated vegetable production, horticulture, dairy enterprises, waste-fed fisheries and pastoral livelihoods. Also addressed are planning and development issues in the peri-urban interface including the difficulty in achieving sustainability, conflict and cooperation over resources, and a fresh look at the relationship between people and their environment. The final part of the book presents policies and strategies for promoting and measuring sustainability in peri-urban zones including community-based waste management, the co-management of watersheds and empowerment of the poor. This book is the most comprehensive examination of the challenges and solutions facing the people and environments of peri-urban zones and is essential reading for all practitioners, students and academics in geography and development.

Author : Kenny Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134513987

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Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World by Kenny Lynch Pdf

Understanding the rural-urban interface -- Food -- Natural flows -- People -- Ideas -- Finance.

Author : Misselwitz, Philipp,Gao, Xiaoxue,Langguth, Hannes,Lynam, Ava
Publisher : Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783798331754

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Interfaces by Misselwitz, Philipp,Gao, Xiaoxue,Langguth, Hannes,Lynam, Ava Pdf

The URA periodical is an annual open-access publication, which will accompany the Sino-German research and development project Urban-Rural Assembly (URA,01LE1804A-D), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the FONA program Sustainable Development of Urban Regions (NUR). By combining scientific and essayistic writings, photographic works, and/or ethnographic studies including interviews, spatial mappings and drawings, the URA periodical will seek to bridge academic, practice and policy discourses around global sustainability challenges and integrated planning and governance approaches at the urban-rural interface. Der URA Sammelband ist eine jährliche Open-Access Publikation, die im Rahmen des deutsch-chinesischen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojektes Urban-Rural-Assembly (URA) herausgegeben wird. Durch die Kombination von wissenschaftlichen und essayistischen Schriften, fotografischen Arbeiten und ethnografischen Studien, einschließlich Interviews sowie räumlicher Kartierungsarbeiten, werden die einzelnen Ausgaben des URA Sammelbandes eine Brücke zwischen akademischen, praktischen und politischen Diskursen zu globalen Nachhaltigkeitsfragen und integrierten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsansätzen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Stadt und Land schlagen. URA wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Rahmen des FONA-Programmes Nachhaltige Entwicklung städtischer Regionen (NUR) gefördert (KZF: 01LE1804A-D, 2019-2024).

Author : Joyeeta Gupta,Karin Pfeffer,Hebe Verrest,Mirjam Ros-Tonen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319212722

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Geographies of Urban Governance by Joyeeta Gupta,Karin Pfeffer,Hebe Verrest,Mirjam Ros-Tonen Pdf

With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming rapidly, impacting human welfare, economic development and urban-regional landscapes. This poses new challenges to urban governance, while emerging city networks, advancing geo-technologies and increasing production of continuous data streams require governance actors to re-think and re-work conventional work processes and practices. This book has been written to enhance our understanding of how governance can contribute to the development of just and resilient cities in a context of rapid urban transformations. It examines current governance patterns from a geographical and inclusive development perspective, emphasizing the importance of place, space, scale and human-environment interactions, and paying attention to contemporary processes of participation, networking, and spatialized digitization. The challenge we are facing is to turn future cities into inclusive cities that are diverse but just and within their ecological limits. We believe that the state-of-the-art overview of topical discussions on governance theories, instruments, methods and practices presented in this book provides a basis for understanding and analyzing these challenges.

Author : David N. Laband
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : MINN:31951D031169274

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Proceedings, Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces II: Linking Science and Society by David N. Laband Pdf

Author : Jonathan Baker,Poul O. Pedersen
Publisher : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070614214

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The Rural-urban Interface in Africa by Jonathan Baker,Poul O. Pedersen Pdf

Discusses the role of small towns as agents for rural improvement and focuses on the links provided by small towns to both rural areas and larger towns. Reviews the role of selected indigenous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in supporting the activities of small enterprises in small towns and rural areas. Covers trends from the 1960s.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agriculture and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nature
ISBN : NAP:14277

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Productive Agriculture & a Quality Environment by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agriculture and the Environment Pdf

Author : Ryo Kohsaka,Yuta Uchiyama
Publisher : Mdpi AG
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 303651810X

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Urban Agriculture, Forestry and Green-Blue Infrastructure as "Re-discovered Commons" by Ryo Kohsaka,Yuta Uchiyama Pdf

This book re-explores research topics related to the relationships between urban and rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic period in 2020 and beyond. We revisit the roles and values of the components of agricultural lands and forestlands-as well as urban ones-from the perspective of green-blue infrastructure.

Author : Sunil Nautiyal,Mrinalini Goswami,Puneeth Shivakumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030692018

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Field Margin Vegetation and Socio-Ecological Environment by Sunil Nautiyal,Mrinalini Goswami,Puneeth Shivakumar Pdf

This book has been produced as a part of the project ‘Social-Ecological Systems at the Indian Rural-Urban Interface: Functions, Scales, and Dynamics of Transition’. It addresses transition processes in agriculture and society triggered by urbanization, focusing on Bengaluru as an example of a rapidly growing megacity in India. Adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary approach embedded within a social-ecological systems research framework, it explores how the physical and socio-economic landscapes have led to changes in economic priorities, which have overpowered ecological and traditional priorities with regard to ecosystem governance. Allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of this unexplored dimension of socio-ecological systems, this book is a valuable resource for international researchers, scholars and master’s students in the field of environmental science, socio-ecology, forestry and agriculture.

Author : Ellen Hoffmann,Andreas Buerkert,Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel,Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh,Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj,Prem José Vazhacharickal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030799724

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The Rural-Urban Interface by Ellen Hoffmann,Andreas Buerkert,Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel,Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh,Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj,Prem José Vazhacharickal Pdf

Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems. Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl. The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.

Author : Ulrich Zeller,Gad Perry,Thomas Göttert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1197126207

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Biodiversity and the Urban-rural Interface: Conflicts Vs. Opportunities by Ulrich Zeller,Gad Perry,Thomas Göttert Pdf

Author : Farai Kapfudzaruwa,Shogo Kudo,Kanako Matsuyama,Doreen Ingosan Allasiw
Publisher : Spears Media Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781942876588

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Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development by Farai Kapfudzaruwa,Shogo Kudo,Kanako Matsuyama,Doreen Ingosan Allasiw Pdf

This volume picks up from where a previously edited title in this book series - Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainable Development in Africa (2018) left off, by presenting nine new case studies from various parts of the African continent. These cases illustrate the complex and multifaceted interactions between cities and rural areas, through the flow of resources, people, capital, information, and goods which directly impact the sustainable development of these concerned areas. Contributions are drawn from young faculty and graduates from the three master’s programmes in Sustainable Urban Development, Sustainable Integrated Rural Development and Mining and Mineral Resources, coordinated by the eight partner African universities who make up the Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) initiative. The volume is part of the ESDA book series that serves primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa. It also aims to inform policy initiatives on development issues on the continent.