Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Africa, 

Автор: Matian Van Soest
Название: The Political Ecology of Malaria: Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda
ISBN: 3837650537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837650532
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Описание: Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda's capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socio-ecological transformations. Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book provides a holistic picture of the malaria epidemic in central Uganda, revealing the highly localized character of an epidemic that once spanned across almost the entire globe. Understanding, and ultimately tackling the disease, requires an appreciation of the social, political, as well as ecological circumstances that frame this epidemic.

Автор: Ahmed, Faisal Z. (princeton University, New Jersey)
Название: Perils of international capital
ISBN: 1108726852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108726856
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Financial capital affects domestic politics, and can finance policies that entrench authoritarian rule. This book presents theoretical foundations, cross-national quantitative analysis, and specific historical examples to challenge existing studies and contribute to important literatures in economics and political science.

Автор: Rigg, Jonathan
Название: More than rural
ISBN: 0824876598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824876593
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the 1970s, Thailand was developing but poor and largely agrarian. By the 1980s it had become the fastest growing large economy in the world and, in the process, made the transformation from a low-income to a middle-income economy. Fast forward to 2010 and Thailand had climbed yet another rung in the development ladder to become, according to World Bank criteria, an upper middle-income economy. Throughout this period of economic and social transformation, contrary to historical experience and theoretical models, one thing has remained constant: the central role of Thai smallholder farming. This conundrum—the persistence of the smallholder in a time of extraordinary change—lies at the heart of this book.In More than Rural author Jonathan Rigg explores how people in the countryside have adapted to their changing world, the new opportunities available, and the consequences for rural life and living. The Thai government has successfully ""developed"" the countryside, but with unexpected results. New household forms have emerged, women have become mobile in a manner few expected, and relations between rural and urban have changed. Yet the smallholder has persisted, and Rigg's attempts to understand why offer a fresh perspective on Thailand's development. Setting aside the urban, industrial point of view that we so often privilege, Rigg asks different questions about Thailand's development. What if, he wonders, the present changes are not simply way stations, transitions to the main act of urbanization? What if they represent a new form of rural livelihood?Rigg's thoughtful, nuanced approach to agrarian change—viewing the countryside as more than agriculture, the rural as more than the countryside, and rural people as more than farmers—offers insights into Thailand's wider transformations (class identities, intergenerational relations), its political impasse, and more. Based on over three-and-a-half decades of fieldwork in seventeen villages, across three regions, and encompassing more than one thousand households, and a deep knowledge of primary and published sources, More than Rural is a significant work with implications for contemporary development across Asia and the global South.

Автор: Susan Parham
Название: Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 0857854534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857854537
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process - how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of - it is impossible to create truly resilient and convivial urbanism.

Moving from the table and home garden to the town, city, and suburbs, Food and Urbanism explores the connections between food and place in past and present design practices. The book also looks to future methods for extending the 'gastronomic' possibilities of urban space. Supported by examples from places across the world, including the UK, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Australia and the USA, the book offers insights into how the interplay of physical design and socio-spatial practices centred around food can help to maintain socially rich, productive and sustainable urban space. Susan Parham brings together the latest research from a number of disciplines - urban planning, food studies, sociology, geography, and design - with her own fieldwork on a range of foodscapes to highlight the fundamental role food has to play in shaping the urban future.

Автор: Martin Williams
Название: The Nile Basin: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments
ISBN: 110717919X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107179196
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book provides detailed reconstructions of past environmental changes in the Nile Basin and considers how prehistoric humans adapted or failed to adapt to these changes. It will greatly assist archaeologists, geographers and planners who need to understand how the Nile has responded to past climatic changes in its headwaters.

Автор: Tian
Название: Peri-Urban China
ISBN: 0815349114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815349112
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop. Chapters in this book explore how rural industrialization has changed the landscape and rules about land use in peri-urban areas.

Автор: Mathew Kurian; Patricia McCarney
Название: Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services
ISBN: 9400794398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400794399
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book discusses practical tools to help decision makers institute incremental improvements in the delivery of water and sanitation services in developing countries so that more people can have access to safe water and sanitation service.

Автор: Susan Parham
Название: Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 0857854526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857854520
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process - how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of - it is impossible to create truly resilient and convivial urbanism.

Moving from the table and home garden to the town, city, and suburbs, Food and Urbanism explores the connections between food and place in past and present design practices. The book also looks to future methods for extending the 'gastronomic' possibilities of urban space. Supported by examples from places across the world, including the UK, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Australia and the USA, the book offers insights into how the interplay of physical design and socio-spatial practices centred around food can help to maintain socially rich, productive and sustainable urban space. Susan Parham brings together the latest research from a number of disciplines - urban planning, food studies, sociology, geography, and design - with her own fieldwork on a range of foodscapes to highlight the fundamental role food has to play in shaping the urban future.

Название: Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Africa
ISBN: 1138351946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138351943
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Published in 1999, this work sets out to assess the potential of urban and peri-urban agriculture for generating income and for improving food supply for the growing urban population in Africa.

Автор: Mukherjee, Neela
Название: Alternative Perspectives on Livelihoods, Agriculture and Air Pollution: Agriculture in Urban and Peri-urban Areas in a Developing Country
ISBN: 1138635626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138635623
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This title was first published in 2001. This text is based on participatory field research in selected urban and peri-urban villages in Varanasi and Faridabad districts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, respectively. The topic of air pollution is approached in a holistic manner in terms of local lives and livelihoods.

Автор: James Sarah
Название: Farming on the Fringe: Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney
ISBN: 3319812300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319812304
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney`s sprawling urban jungle.

Автор: Kjell Nilsson; Stephan Pauleit; Simon Bell; Carmen
Название: Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe
ISBN: 3642428983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642428982
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book discusses the wide-ranging impacts of the trend toward peri-urbanisation, and issues in planning and management. Presents six case studies, and proposes a future-oriented management approach focused on scenarios and sustainability impact analysis.