Rural communities / rural life Books

Book SynopsisIn Arctic and northern communities, livelihoods and land use depend heavily on natural resources. Decision-making processes around the use of natural resources are often contested and given their importance to these communities the participation of local stakeholders is vital. This timely book presents practices that have been developed with key stakeholders to improve the collection and utilization of locally relevant knowledge in land use planning. Chapters illustrate how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) can be made spatially explicit by using, for example, participatory GIS. Focusing on countries including Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Ireland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this book pays particular attention to the recognized challenges of these regions, including the relationships between local and national actors and indigenous and other local populations.Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management will be a key resource for students and researchers of geography, planning, regional and tourism studies as well as planning authorities and consultants, offering new ideas and tools for the inclusion of local knowledge in decision making processes.Trade Review‘The importance of public participation in decision-making has for decades been acknowledged, but cost-effective tools are unfortunately still lacking. The book emphasizes opportunities offered by the rapid technical development within geographical information systems (GIS) that greatly facilitate public participation and co-operation between the public, academics and political decision makers. The book is well organized, with easily readable texts for non-experts, and is highly recommended for anyone interested in improving social equity in decision-making.’ -- Guðrún Pétursdóttir, University of Iceland‘Increasingly, researchers working in northern contexts are required to bring different groups and types of knowledge together to better inform policies, practices, and decisions related to natural resource governance. Many efforts thus far have proven unsuccessful. The value of this book is that it demonstrates effective methods for generating shared knowledge, illustrating ways that both western scientists and indigenous peoples can work together using contemporary approaches to foster common interests and advance a sustainable and shared future.’ -- Maureen G. Reed, University of Saskatchewan, Canada‘Lapland in Finland, with Rovaniemi as its capital, has become an important international tourism destination in recent years due to its natural environment, clean air, tourism activities and northern lights. This edited volume is very timely in that it offers great ideas and tools to address the ever more urgent issue of developing tourism in a sustainable way and reconciling it with other land use modes.’ -- Esko Lotvonen, Mayor of Rovaniemi, Lapland, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv 1 Building shared knowledge capital to support natural resource governance in the northern periphery: concepts and challenges 1 John McDonagh, Seija Tuulentie and Ari Nikula 2 Indigenous and local knowledge in land use planning: a comparative analysis 16 Minna Turunen, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Hans Holt Poulsen, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 3 Whose knowledge is it anyway? Apprehensions around sharing knowledge of natural resources in the northern peripheries 29 Seija Tuulentie, Gun Lidestav, Inkeri Markkula, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marie Søndergaard and Minna Turunen 4 Traditional knowledge and natural resource governance: a gender perspective 42 Gun Lidestav, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Per Sandström and Stefan Sandström 5 Who is the public and where is participation in participatory GIS and public participation GIS 55 Stefan Sandström, Per Sandström and Ari Nikula 6 PPGIS for a better understanding of people’s values: experiences from Finland and the Faroe Islands 70 Ari Nikula, Minna Turunen, Ragnhei›ur Bogadóttir, Inkeri Markkula and Sini Kantola 7 The contradictory role of tourism in the northern peripheries: overcrowding, overtourism and the importance of tourism for rural development 86 Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Seija Tuulentie, Gestur Hovgaard, Karl Brix Zinglersen, Marita Svartá, Hans Holt Poulsen and Marie Søndergaard 8 ‘Nothing is sustainable the way it is’ – reflections on local sustainability perceptions and interpretations 100 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell and Therese Conway 9 ‘There’s no transfer of knowledge, it’s all one way’ – the importance of integrating local knowledge and fostering knowledge sharing practices in natural resource utilisation 116 John McDonagh, Rannveig Ólafsdóttir, Louise Weir, Marie Mahon, Maura Farrell, Johannes Welling and Therese Conway 10 ‘Who knew digitizing and dialogue could change the course of reindeer herding rights? We know, now’: building bridges between knowledge systems and over highways 130 Per Sandström, Eva-Lisa Myntti, Stefan Sandström, Niklas Jonsson, Gun Lidestav and Tobias Jonsson 11 Social licence to operate: is local acceptance of economic development enhancing social sustainability? 144 Leena Suopajärvi, Arvid Viken, Gaute Svensson and Sanna Pettersson 12 Participation, local knowledge and decision-making: challenging the boundaries, realizing the opportunities 160 John McDonagh and Seija Tuulentie Index 171

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together experts from around the world to reflect critically on the relationship between tourism and rural community development. It first orients the reader in the important conceptual and epistemological foundations of the topic, before moving to consider key concepts and the most significant and salient theoretical and methodological developments in the field.Chapters written by a range of well-established, leading and emerging scholars in the field consider crucial issues facing tourism development in rural communities across different geographical settings. The Handbook represents a variety of traditional and emerging forms of scholarly writing, including theoretically driven chapters, empirical case studies and first-person narratives, to offer a detailed study of the topic. With a forward-looking angle, it studies tourism development in rural areas, including working with rural communities, tourism governance and ethical considerations. Chapters also consider new directions in the field, examining food and tourism, degrowth, landscapes, animals, social impacts and women social entrepreneurs.This comprehensive and innovative Handbook offers a wealth of empirical and theoretical knowledge on tourism and rural community development, and as such will be a critical resource for tourism, development studies and human geography scholars and students.Trade Review‘Stretching well beyond the typical examination of rural tourist experiences, the authors of this collected volume set rural places and their communities front and center, driving home the message that there is no such thing as ‘good’ tourism development if it is not good for local lives and livelihoods. Both students and seasoned researchers will appreciate the book’s conceptual and epistemological content—a rarity in a research area that has largely focused on case studies. Particularly noteworthy for its global reach and inclusion of Indigenous and Black voices advocating for decolonization, this book is sure to become the foundational text on rural tourism in the post-Covid rebuild.’ -- Kellee Caton, Thompson Rivers University ne Secwepemcu'lecw, Canada‘This excellent Handbook is essential reading for anyone concerned with rural development and tourism. It is full of empirical examples and crucial concepts that affect rural communities everywhere. This collection satisfies any inquisitive mind with its balanced treatment of the ups and downs of tourism as a rural development tool.’ -- Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, US‘In the wake of the recent global pandemic, tourism scholars are contending with what will follow. This work analyses the role of tourism in rural community development, with contributions from leading and emerging tourism scholars. Together, they present critical and even radical insights into the value of tourism that go far beyond its economics. Questioning the purposes of tourism, this volume centres communities and suggests the ways in which tourism can be better shaped for positive rural community futures.’ -- Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: understanding rural community development and tourism in challenging times 1 Heather Mair PART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS 2 Understanding rural communities 15 Michael Woods 3 Understanding rural tourism 29 Donald G. Reid 4 Understanding rural development 41 Kelly Vodden, Mery Angeles Perez and Brady Reid PART II EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS, PARADIGMS, AND WORLDVIEWS 5 Post-positivism and mixed methods research in rural tourism 62 Girish Prayag 6 Interpretive approaches to research with rural communities: privileging emotion in tourism encounters 76 Meghan Muldoon 7 Decolonial pedagogies as a pathway to transformational learning for rural community and tourism development 88 Christine N. Buzinde 8 Interpreting the social impacts of tourism-led rural regeneration: the case of the Alps to Ocean (A2O) Cycle Trail 99 Michael Mackay, Nick Taylor, Harvey C. Perkins and Tracy Nelson 9 Building rapport à soi: thinking critically about rural community tourism development 113 Keith Hollinshead and Heather Mair 10 Refusing tourism 125 tebrakunna country, Emma Lee and Bryan S.R. Grimwood PART III KEY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 11 Gender and rural tourism 140 Katherine Dashper 12 Food, tourism, and rural community development: close encounters of the nourishing kind? 153 Jennifer Sumner 13 Heritage, heritage interpretation and rural tourism 166 Bernard Lane 14 Climate change 180 Mark C.J. Stoddart and Yixi Yang 15 Tourism: vulnerability and resiliency in rural regions 194 David W. Marcouiller 16 Degrowing rural tourism development: thinking globally to save the local 205 Alexander Safonov and C. Michael Hall 17 Understanding a multifunctional rural tourism landscape: a case study of the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia 218 Sinead Francis-Coan and Annæ Buchmann 18 Creatively regenerating St. Jacobs Village 235 Tawsif Dowla and Karla A. Boluk PART IV PROCESSES AND PRACTICES 19 Ethical considerations for rural community tourism 254 Tazim Jamal and Blanca Camargo 20 Sustainable tourism development in rural areas: an alternative paradigm using the appreciative inquiry approach 272 Roslizawati Che Aziz 21 Tourism governance for rural community well-being: challenges and creative opportunities 286 Gianna Moscardo 22 “Salvaging” presence: tourism as regional development strategies for rural communities 301 Dominic Lapointe 23 Rural communities, tourism, and the roles of academics 316 Bernard Lane PART V EMERGING MATTERS AND NEW DIRECTIONS 24 Community events, rural–urban interdependencies, and rural community development 332 Kyle Rich 25 Centering animals within rural tourism 344 Carol Kline 26 Shifting from benefiting to serving community: a case of regenerative tourism and building cultural capital through the Children’s University Tasmania 359 Can-Seng Ooi and Becky Shelley 27 Exploring the regenerative practices of Canadian women tourism social entrepreneurs: a feminist ethic of care 373 Karla A. Boluk, Gaurav Panse, and Sung Eun Jeon 28 Transforming a dogsledding community: the ‘Gafsele Open’ and lifestyle migrants in sparsely populated northern Sweden 386 Marco Eimermann, Doris A. Carson and Linda Lundmark 29 Traveling workers as rural tourists: extending understandings from Tibetan travelers 403 Xiaotao Yang 30 Conclusion: inspiring a radical politics of community-controlled rural tourism 417 Heather Mair Index

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Book SynopsisRethinking Rural Studies presents an explicitly trans-disciplinary perspective on rural social science. David L. Brown and Mark Shucksmith identify emerging issues and research avenues on the topic, highlighting opportunities for rural studies to contribute towards greater collective wellbeing.

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.Trade Review‘This book makes an interesting contribution to rural studies, informed by a solid grounding in the history of the discipline. It is surely correct to work toward eroding the division between rural and urban studies and the book provides a good guide to anyone looking for a broad description of the issues facing global development.’ -- Selyf Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This book makes a significant and valuable contribution to interdisciplinary rural studies. It centres the rural and rurality while breaking down barriers, divides and binaries between the rural and the urban. It identifies key areas of rural research, as well as their relevant debates and bodies of literature, which will be indispensable for anyone interested in researching or working in and on rural spaces and places.’ -- Miles Kenney-Lazar, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography'Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.' --Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. New ruralities and centralities for rural development 2. Changing questions of governance: reflexive and disruptive governance in the Anthropocene 3. New power configurations and transformations 4. Financialization and nested vulnerabilities. The rise of fictitious capital in placing agrarian change 5. Re-claiming land: questions of land rights and the management of the biosphere 6. Agroecology: a new paradigm for rural development? 7. Family farming in changing agricultural social structures 8. The power of the new markets Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the social impact of migration, this book explores migration as an inevitable part of rural development and transition in light of the sharp political divides in European and national political arenas on the topic. It provides an innovative immigration impact assessment based on recently conducted empirical work to enhance local development in European rural and remote regions, looking to promote change in the perception of migration and related policies and practices.The book concentrates on third country nationals (TCNs), considering the spaces in which TCNs settle down as both the input and output of a process of collective production of places. Chapters analyse how the particular traits of rural and remote contexts interact with TCNs’ integration paths and impact, looking at how demographic trends, socio-economic dynamics and migration patterns to a specific region affect the opportunities, policy responses, societal attitudes and perceptions towards TCNs.With empirically grounded recommendations and advice on strategies and solutions to improve the local governance of migration, this book will be a useful tool for European policymakers. It will also be an informative and interesting read for regional studies, governance and human geography scholars focusing on migration.Trade Review‘With this book, the researchers of the MATILDE project fill an important research gap. Through the diversity of the case studies, the range of opportunities and challenges experienced in remote areas through third-country nationals are impressively exemplified. The book is a valuable addition to the literature, especially for migration studies and rural studies.’ -- Birte Nienaber, University of Luxembourg, LuxembourgTable of ContentsContents: 1 On the potential of immigration for the remote areas of Europe: an introduction 1 Jussi P. Laine, Daniel Rauhut and Marika Gruber PART I RECOGNITION, RENEGOTIATION, REVITALISATION 2 Appropriate housing in rural and mountain areas? Current structures and practices of access for immigrants – the case of Alpine regions in Austria and Germany 27 Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger, Ingrid Machold and Marika Gruber 3 Labour market shortages and exclusion practices: the irrationalities of the labour markets and the legislation 44 Marika Gruber, Kathrin Zupan, Nuria del Olmo Vicén and Raúl Lardiés-Bosque 4 Long-term needs to achieve social inclusionary pathways for migrants 60 Ingrid Machold, Thomas Dax and Lisa Bauchinger 5 Russian-speaking immigrants’ vulnerable transnational family lives on the border: the case of North Karelia 77 Pirjo Pöllänen, Lauri Havukainen and Olga Davydova-Minguet 6 De/re/bordering remoteness in times of crisis: migration for reterritorialization and revitalization of a remote region 93 Anna Krasteva 7 Migrating to Scottish insular communities: how remoteness affects integration by shaping borders and identities 111 Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi and Simone Baglioni PART II CHALLENGES FOR POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 8 The impact of foreign immigrants on the revitalization of rural areas in Spain 130 Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo Vicén 9 Access to welfare policies by immigrants: comparing centralized and decentralized governance in the examples of Turkey and Spain 149 Põnar Uyan Semerci, Fatma Yõlmaz Elmas, Raœl LardiŽs Bosque and Nuria Del Olmo-Vicén 10 The local turn in migrant practices in Turkey: Syrians in Bursa 166 Ayhan Kaya 11 Immigrant integration in Austria and Sweden: a patchwork of multilevel governance and fragmented responsibilities 183 Marika Gruber and Daniel Rauhut 12 ‘A spanner in the works’: exploring the relationship between provision of welfare and integration in rural areas 201 Susanne Stenbacka and Tina Mathisen 13 Structures, trends and turning points of Norwegian and Swedish integration policies 218 Ulf Hansson, Akin Deniz, Zuzana Macuchova and Per Olav Lund 14 Conclusions: renegotiated remoteness and the social impact of immigration 237 Daniel Rauhut, Jussi P. Laine and Marika Gruber Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last four decades, China has witnessed dramatic economic growth, transforming into an economic powerhouse with considerable consequences for its rural regions. In this timely book, Guy M. Robinson adeptly navigates the principal elements, key events and significant changes of the transformation of China’s countryside.Chapters assess economic, social, and environmental aspects of China’s rural transformation, examining the central role of the Chinese Communist Party and government policies in shaping this change. Offering an interdisciplinary perspective, Robinson comprehensively explores the key events in the transition from a rural peasant society to a countryside that is a complex mosaic of ‘hollowed’ villages, ‘desakota’ peri-urban fringes, farming landscapes, tourist attractions, new villages, ‘left behind’ children and elderly, wholesale rural poverty alleviation, and degraded and newly restored ecosystems.This book will prove to be an essential read for academics and students of geopolitics, human geography, environmental studies, economics and finance, and development studies focusing on China. It will also be an invigorating read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Chinese and Asian studies.Trade Review‘This book offers an impressive and very insightful overview of China’s rural development policies since the 1980s and their outcomes. Guy M. Robinson tackles issues ranging from poverty alleviation, ecological restoration programs and the rise of cooperatives to land consolidation and agricultural modernization. He does not shy away from contentious issues like China’s one-child policy, forced resettlement policies, and rural development policies in western China’s ethnically and culturally diverse regions. A must-read for anyone interested in gaining an objective, science-based view of China’s rural transformation.’ -- Nico Heerink, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands‘Informed by half a century of research on rural and environmental dynamics and an extensive review of writings by Chinese scholars, Guy M. Robinson provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of China's multifaceted and uneven rural-urban, and accompanying agrarian, demographic and social transitions. Along the way, Transforming Rural China is also a valuable guide to further reading on an array of topics, from China's ecological discourses to regional development and rural tourism.’ -- James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore‘Professor Robinson gives us a unique and clear perspective on China’s rural transformation. He began with the guidance of a Cambridge-trained teacher who shared much of the Western bias towards China. Eventually, through his own endeavours, the collaboration of his Chinese students and friends, and numerous visits to China, he developed an understanding of rural China that most Westerners still do not comprehend, which he shares in this book.’ -- Helen Bao, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Approaches to rural transformation 2 Peasants no more? Social change in the countryside 3 Rural–urban migration and ‘hollowed’ villages 4 Desakota landscapes 5 From collectives to co-operatives 6 Modernising agriculture 7 Rural tourism and rediscovering rural heritage 8 Towards the ecological civilisation: conservation and afforestation 9 Building the rural future and alleviating rural poverty 10 Way out west: managing China’s ‘colonial’ frontier 11 Whither rural China? References

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Book SynopsisLooking beyond urban immigration, this ground-breaking book explores how immigrants can become a part of local communities in remote regions. Contributors argue that immigrant integration is place-dependent, and develop new theories, methodologies, and policies that address the specific dynamics of immigration to peripheral areas.Emphasising migrants’ attachments to the places they reside in, this book adopts a bottom-up approach to immigrant integration, prioritising the needs of individual agents. It highlights the various methodological flaws and ideological biases of existing theories of integration and provides novel solutions to integration problems. Chapters examine key features of immigration to remote places, including transnational social networks developed by migrants, and translocal and global understandings of place. Ultimately, the book reveals the multi-faceted, multi-layered and socially-constructed nature of immigrant integration.New Methods and Theory on Immigrant Integration will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in international migration, human geography, ethnic relations, European studies, and sociology. It will also be essential reading for professionals in NGOs and political institutions seeking to develop effective immigration integration policies.Trade Review‘In our day and age, when migrants in the West are no longer confined to cities and metropoles, but also increasingly make their mark in the countryside and small towns, there is a dire need for scholarly research on migration outside urban areas. Wait no more. In Daniel Rauhut’s New Methods and Theory on Immigration Integration, all those sorely overlooked topics are carefully analyzed from refreshing perspectives by distinguished scholars in the field. Along with it, conventional wisdom is being challenged. Certainly, an extremely valuable research and teaching resource!’ -- Göran Adamson, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix 1 Methodological and theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration in rural and remote areas: an introduction 1 Daniel Rauhut 2 Theorising immigrant integration: a critical examination 13 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 3 Integration and rural space in Sweden: a three-dimensional approach 33 Susanne Stenbacka 4 Integrating remote places: a place-based perspective on integration in the Scottish Outer Hebrides 51 Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi, and Simone Baglioni 5 Crossing the border: immigrant integration in a bordering perspective 68 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 6 Transcultural and post-migrant evidence in rural Carinthia: a conceptual approach 86 Marika Gruber 7 Subjective perceptions of immigrant integration: an example from rural Spain 104 Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo-Vicén 8 Measuring immigrant integration – determining how, what, and who 123 Zuzana Macuchova and Daniel Rauhut 9 The methodology of immigrant integration: an epistemological perspective 142 Daniel Rauhut 10 Epilogue: what is lurking behind migrant integration? 163 Ayhan Kaya Index

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Book SynopsisDespite increasing disaster risk in South Asian countries, exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards are not yet at the forefront of development agendas. Covering disaster scenarios, and the causes and consequences of disaster displacement, Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods: Perspectives from South Asia provides a much-needed focus on the South Asian context, generating new insights and considering the policy implications of strategies for building resilient livelihoods. Recognising the diversity of South Asian countries in terms of culture, environment, livelihood patterns and socioeconomic and political structures, chapters consider risk landscape and resilience capacity in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Bringing critical attention to an emerging topic, Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods: Perspectives from South Asia breaks fresh ground by considering resilient livelihoods in terms of capacity, resources and policy within each country’s diverse local context. Delving into communities’ capacities to prevent displacement, their ability to mitigate protection risks during displacement and their options in terms of durable solutions, contributors offer a resilience building framework that incorporates common principles while also retaining a flexibility and adaptability for specific risk environments. Capturing the diverse context of the South Asian resilient livelihood framework, Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods: Perspectives from South Asia addresses a crucial gap for an interdisciplinary audience interested in urban and political sociology, social and cultural anthropology and disaster, development and South Asian studies.Table of ContentsForeword; Bayes Ahmed Chapter 1. Introduction: Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods in South Asia; M. Rezaul Islam Chapter 2. Research Trends on Natural Disasters in the Context of India: A Bibliometric Analysis; Babul Hossain, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Guoqing Shi, and Md. Salman Sohel Chapter 3. Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Disasters in Pakistan: A Systematic Literature Review; Babul Hossain, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Guoqing Shi, and Md. Salman Sohel Chapter 4. Disaster Vulnerability, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods among the Afghan Urban Women; Marina Hamidazada and Ana Maria Cruz Chapter 5. Livelihood Resilience of Climate-Induced Displaced People in South Asia: Implications for Bangladesh; Md Nazirul Islam Sarker Chapter 6. An Assessment of Population Displacement and Resilience Livelihood Options among River Erosion-Affected People in Bangladesh; M. Rezaul Islam and Walter Leal Filho Chapter 7. Community Resilience Initiatives among River Erosion Affected People in Bangladesh; M. Rezaul Islam Chapter 8. Disaster and Displacement: Opportunities and Challenges for Enhancing Resilience in Nepal; Raju Chauhan, Sudeep Thakuri, and Charles Pradhan Chapter 9. Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods in Sri Lanka: Policy Imperatives; R. Lalitha S. Fernando, Manjitha Kavindi Siriwardhana, E. Achini Indrachapa Kularathna, and H. D. M. Kaushalya Geethamali Chapter 10. Conclusions: Disaster, Displacement and Resilient Livelihoods in South Asia; M. Rezaul Islam

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Book SynopsisThroughout their lifetime, men and women are subject to a wide variety of risks, such as illness, accident, death, or less directly, unemployment, crop failure, loss of property, disability, business failure, and skill obsolescence.This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk coping strategies among today's poor rural societies. Ways in which these strategies may be re-examined and improved by governments and international organisations are proposed.Rural Poverty, Risk and Development is an important contribution to the development literature and should be read by anyone interested in exploring the causes of and solutions to poverty in rural areas.Trade Review'The book is very rigorous and follows a logical sequence. It will no doubt become the reference book on rural poverty, risk and development with the most relevant references of the literature, and extensive mathematical modeling where possible. Indeed, the book is a masterly review of risks facing the rural poor and it comes very timely with the renewed emphasis by donors and governments on rural poverty alleviation.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Risk and Poverty 3. The Risk Coping Strategies of the Rural Poor 4. The Limits to Risk Coping 5. Risk and Inequality 6. Risk and Development 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRural policy in industrialized countries is currently undergoing significant change. 'Place-based economies', where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments, are increasingly important for rural development. The Next Rural Economies debates the future of rural development and highlights successes and failures to inform research, policy and community action. Case studies present discussions of the current state of rural community and economic restructuring and provide research and policy directions for constructing resilient and sustainable rural economies.Table of Contents1: Introduction: The Next Rural Economies a: Demographics, Migration, and Immigration 2: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed Something:::? Rediscovering the Comparative Advantage of the New Pastoral Economies of Northern New South Wales, Australia 3: The US Great Plains, Change, and Place Development 4: A New Rural North Carolina: Latino Place-Making and Community Engagement 5: Connecting Rural and Urban Places: Enduring Migration between Small Areas in England and Wales 6: Ontario’s Greenbelt and Places to Grow Legislation: Impacts on the Future of the Countryside and the Rural Economy b: Emerging Economies 7: Adding Value Locally through Integrated Rural Tourism: Lessons from Ireland 8: Value-Added Agricultural Products and Entertainment in Michigan’s Fruit Belt 9: Rural Restructuring and the New Rural Economy: Examples from Germany and Canada 10: Nurturing the Animation Sector in a Peripheral Economic Region: The Case of Miramichi, New Brunswick c: Rural Policy and Governance 11: Co-Constructing Rural Communities in the 21st Century: Challenges for Central Governments and the Research Community in Working Effectively with Local and Regional Actors 12: Partnerships, People, and Place: Lauding the Local in Rural Development 13: The Political Economies of Place in the Emergent Global Countryside: Stories from Rural Wales d: Rural-Urban Exchange 14: Reviving Small Rural Towns in the Paris Periurban Fringes 15: When Rural-Urban Fringes Arise as Differentiated Place: The Socio-Economic Restructuring of Volvic Sources et Volcans, France 16: Rural Development Strategies in Japan e: Renewal in Resource Peripheries 17: Heroes, Hope, and Resource Development in Canada’s Periphery: Lessons from Newfoundland and Labrador 18: Fly-in, Fly-out Resource Development: A New Regionalist Perspective on the Next Rural Economy 19: Understanding and Transforming a Staples-Based Economy: Place-Based Development in Northern British Columbia, Canada 20: Space to Place: Bridging the Gap

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies. The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of settings, for a range of people, for the quality of data and subsequent findings, and for the production of rigorous social research. The collection will also stimulate thinking about how methodological advancement can be made in the field. It is the first book of its kind to combine practical and methodological reflections with clearly presented recommendations about how the approach can be used. Presenting the latest thinking in the field and providing summaries, case studies and review questions, 'Community research for participation' will be invaluable to students, researchers, academics and practitioners who aim to place community members at the centre of their research.Trade Review"Goodson and Phillimore have collated a comprehensive and timely volume into the nature of community research that highlights the benefits of working with and in communities." LSE Review of Books"A usefull and far reaching discussion drawing on a wide range of practice/research illustrations" Carol Packham, MMU"This text cleverly negotiates through community research dealing with theoretical, ethical and practical issues in an engageing manner" Stuart Agnew, University Campus Suffolk"It is invaluable when practitioners produce reflections on experiences of undertaking their craft, and this volume is no exception. With a series of illuminating chapters covering a range of topics, this will be of value to those engaged in the field of community research." Tim May, co-director, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsPart One: Theoretical and methodological issues ~ Community research: opportunities and challenges ~ Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore; A critical communicative perspective on community research: Reflections on experiences working with Roma in Spain ~ Aitor Gómez and Terese Sordé Marti; Authenticity and validity in community research: Looking at age discrimination and urban social interactions in the UK ~ Andrew Clark, Caroline Holland and Richard Ward; Community research with Gypsies and Travellers in the UK: Highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity ~ Philip Brown, Lisa Scullion and Pat Niner;Involving community researchers in refugee research in the UK~ Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt, Hameed Hakimi and Therese O'Toole; Universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in Germany, Finland and Russia ~ Patricia Bell, Melinda Madew, Tony Addy and Sakari Kainulainen; Data analysis and community research: Capturing reality on housing estates in Bradford, UK ~ Heather Blakey, EJ Milne and Louise Kilburn; Participation in community research: Experiences of community researchers in HIV/AIDS research in South Africa ~ Maretha Visser; Part Two: Ethics, power and emotion ~ Power and participation in community research: Community profilinh in Italy ~ Terri Mannarini; The pedagogy of community research: Moving out of the ivory tower and into community organisations in Canada ~ Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande and Ann Marie O'Brien; Engaging community researchers in evaluation: Looking at the experiences of community partners in school based projects in the US ~ Jenifer Cartland, Holly Ruch-Ross and Maryann Mason; Are we recovery orientated? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experience ~ Lisa Brophy, Melissa Petrakis, Liam Buckley, Matthew Scott, Jayne Lewis, Nadine Cocks, Michael Stylianou and Kieran Halloran; Ethics in community research: Reflections from ethnographic research with First Nations people in the US ~ Barbara Kawulich and Tamra Ogletree; Avoiding best being the enemy of good: using peer interviewer methods for community research in place-based settings in Australia ~ Deborah Warr, Rosey Mann and Richard Williams; Part Three: Managing the research process ~ Mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections on a qualitative study of citizens' experiences of compulsory mental health laws in Northern Ireland ~ Damien Kavanagh, Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Martin Daly and Moira Harper; Community organisation and community research: Women's struggle for food security in India ~ Janki Andharia; Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction intervention in Botswana: Challenges and opportunities ~ Bagele Chilisa and Rapelang Chilisa; Recruitment and capacity building challenges in participatory research involving young people in Northern Ireland ~ Claire McCartan, Dirk Schubotz and Stephanie Burns; Translating lives: Cross language community research with Polish migrants in the UK ~ Bogusia Temple and Katarzyna Koterba; Mentoring refugee community researchers in the UK: An empowerment tool? ~ Patricia A. Jones and Ricky Joseph.

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Book SynopsisThis book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies. The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological and methodological questions. They explore what community peer research means in a range of settings, for a range of people, for the quality of data and subsequent findings, and for the production of rigorous social research. The collection will also stimulate thinking about how methodological advancement can be made in the field. It is the first book of its kind to combine practical and methodological reflections with clearly presented recommendations about how the approach can be used. Presenting the latest thinking in the field and providing summaries, case studies and review questions, 'Community research for participation' will be invaluable to students, researchers, academics and practitioners who aim to place community members at the centre of their research.Trade Review"Goodson and Phillimore have collated a comprehensive and timely volume into the nature of community research that highlights the benefits of working with and in communities." LSE Review of Books"A usefull and far reaching discussion drawing on a wide range of practice/research illustrations" Carol Packham, MMU"This text cleverly negotiates through community research dealing with theoretical, ethical and practical issues in an engageing manner" Stuart Agnew, University Campus Suffolk"It is invaluable when practitioners produce reflections on experiences of undertaking their craft, and this volume is no exception. With a series of illuminating chapters covering a range of topics, this will be of value to those engaged in the field of community research." Tim May, co-director, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford, UKTable of ContentsPart One: Theoretical and methodological issues ~ Community research: opportunities and challenges ~ Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore; A critical communicative perspective on community research: Reflections on experiences working with Roma in Spain ~ Aitor Gómez and Terese Sordé Marti; Authenticity and validity in community research: Looking at age discrimination and urban social interactions in the UK ~ Andrew Clark, Caroline Holland and Richard Ward; Community research with Gypsies and Travellers in the UK: Highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity ~ Philip Brown, Lisa Scullion and Pat Niner;Involving community researchers in refugee research in the UK~ Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt, Hameed Hakimi and Therese O'Toole; Universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in Germany, Finland and Russia ~ Patricia Bell, Melinda Madew, Tony Addy and Sakari Kainulainen; Data analysis and community research: Capturing reality on housing estates in Bradford, UK ~ Heather Blakey, EJ Milne and Louise Kilburn; Participation in community research: Experiences of community researchers in HIV/AIDS research in South Africa ~ Maretha Visser; Part Two: Ethics, power and emotion ~ Power and participation in community research: Community profilinh in Italy ~ Terri Mannarini; The pedagogy of community research: Moving out of the ivory tower and into community organisations in Canada ~ Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande and Ann Marie O'Brien; Engaging community researchers in evaluation: Looking at the experiences of community partners in school based projects in the US ~ Jenifer Cartland, Holly Ruch-Ross and Maryann Mason; Are we recovery orientated? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experience ~ Lisa Brophy, Melissa Petrakis, Liam Buckley, Matthew Scott, Jayne Lewis, Nadine Cocks, Michael Stylianou and Kieran Halloran; Ethics in community research: Reflections from ethnographic research with First Nations people in the US ~ Barbara Kawulich and Tamra Ogletree; Avoiding best being the enemy of good: using peer interviewer methods for community research in place-based settings in Australia ~ Deborah Warr, Rosey Mann and Richard Williams; Part Three: Managing the research process ~ Mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections on a qualitative study of citizens' experiences of compulsory mental health laws in Northern Ireland ~ Damien Kavanagh, Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Martin Daly and Moira Harper; Community organisation and community research: Women's struggle for food security in India ~ Janki Andharia; Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction intervention in Botswana: Challenges and opportunities ~ Bagele Chilisa and Rapelang Chilisa; Recruitment and capacity building challenges in participatory research involving young people in Northern Ireland ~ Claire McCartan, Dirk Schubotz and Stephanie Burns; Translating lives: Cross language community research with Polish migrants in the UK ~ Bogusia Temple and Katarzyna Koterba; Mentoring refugee community researchers in the UK: An empowerment tool? ~ Patricia A. 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Book SynopsisAcross the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programs are anti-oppression, deliberative, and embedded in their communities. Qayum dives into the work of Polli Shomaj (PS), a program of the development organization BRAC to show how the women of PS negotiate with state and society to alter the rules of the game, changing how poor people access resources including safety nets, the law, and governing spaces. These women create a complex and rapidly transforming world where multiple overlapping institutions exist – formal and informal, old and new, desirable and undesirable. In actively challenging power structures around them, these women defy stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.Trade Review"Drawing on sustained and in-depth engagement with Polli Somaj, a program associated with the NGO BRAC, Qayum argues among other things that NGOs can play a critical role in development: in linking marginalized citizens with state services and societal resources, and in shifting cultural practices through offering alternative or competing 'logics of appropriateness.' Written in carefully crafted, evocative prose, Village Ties is a welcome addition to the field." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Clinical Associate Professor, New York University *"Village Ties does something new and valuable by telling a more complicated story about NGOs and rural Bangladeshi women. Nayma Qayum shows how these activists tackle the informal institutions that keep rural women poor and powerless, and in so doing, help build the necessary foundations for women’s power. Scholars of civil society and NGOs, of Bangladesh’s development, and of women’s empowerment will find this fascinating, full of stories and substantive arguments about the deep roots of social change." -- Naomi Hossain * co-editor of The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning *"Confronting Social Norms is Critical for Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh, a New Book by Political Science Alumna Shows" - an interview with Nayma Qayum * CUNY.edu *"Contributes to scholarship that attends to ordinary people’s lived experiences to understand how marginalised communities solve political and social problems." * LSE Review of Books *"Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" interview with Nayma Qayum * New Books Network: New Books in Gender Studies *"Changing the Rules of the Game," by Aleta Mayne * College Magazine *"This book is precious in its value for diverse audiences. It should be read and taught widely across the fields of agrarian studies, development studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science." -- Sahana Ghosh * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I Setting the Stage 1 Institutions 2 A Gendered Story 3 Poor Women’s Politics PART II Formal and Informal Institutions 4 Clients, Rules, and Transactions 5 Rule of Law PART III Negotiating with State and Society 6 Changing Distributive Politics 7 Negotiating Justice 8 Governing Locally Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but by informal norms and practices. Village Ties takes the reader to Bangladesh, a country that has risen from the ashes of war, natural disaster, and decades of resource drain to become a development miracle. The book argues that grassroots women’s mobilization programs can empower women to challenge informal institutions when such programs are anti-oppression, deliberative, and embedded in their communities. Qayum dives into the work of Polli Shomaj (PS), a program of the development organization BRAC to show how the women of PS negotiate with state and society to alter the rules of the game, changing how poor people access resources including safety nets, the law, and governing spaces. These women create a complex and rapidly transforming world where multiple overlapping institutions exist – formal and informal, old and new, desirable and undesirable. In actively challenging power structures around them, these women defy stereotypes of poor Muslim women as backward, subservient, oppressed, and in need of saving.Trade Review"Drawing on sustained and in-depth engagement with Polli Somaj, a program associated with the NGO BRAC, Qayum argues among other things that NGOs can play a critical role in development: in linking marginalized citizens with state services and societal resources, and in shifting cultural practices through offering alternative or competing 'logics of appropriateness.' Written in carefully crafted, evocative prose, Village Ties is a welcome addition to the field." -- Dina M. Siddiqi * Clinical Associate Professor, New York University *"Village Ties does something new and valuable by telling a more complicated story about NGOs and rural Bangladeshi women. Nayma Qayum shows how these activists tackle the informal institutions that keep rural women poor and powerless, and in so doing, help build the necessary foundations for women’s power. Scholars of civil society and NGOs, of Bangladesh’s development, and of women’s empowerment will find this fascinating, full of stories and substantive arguments about the deep roots of social change." -- Naomi Hossain * co-editor of The Politics of Education in Developing Countries: From Schooling to Learning *"Confronting Social Norms is Critical for Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh, a New Book by Political Science Alumna Shows" - an interview with Nayma Qayum * CUNY.edu *"Contributes to scholarship that attends to ordinary people’s lived experiences to understand how marginalised communities solve political and social problems." * LSE Review of Books *"Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" interview with Nayma Qayum * New Books Network: New Books in Gender Studies *"Changing the Rules of the Game," by Aleta Mayne * College Magazine *"This book is precious in its value for diverse audiences. It should be read and taught widely across the fields of agrarian studies, development studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science." -- Sahana Ghosh * Journal of Agrarian Change *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I Setting the Stage 1 Institutions 2 A Gendered Story 3 Poor Women’s Politics PART II Formal and Informal Institutions 4 Clients, Rules, and Transactions 5 Rule of Law PART III Negotiating with State and Society 6 Changing Distributive Politics 7 Negotiating Justice 8 Governing Locally Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas. It demonstrates the dynamic and complex relationships existing between ethnic minorities and livelihoods, and analyses the ways in which projects of belonging (and identity-formation) amongst these ethnic minorities are entangled in their respective livelihood construction projects, and vice versa. The ethnic minorities include those considered indigenous to Zimbabwe, and those often defined as ‘aliens’, including ethnicities with a transnational presence in southern Africa. The ethnicities studied in the book include the following: Chewa, Doma, Tonga, Tshwa San, Shangane, Basotho, Ndau, Hlengwe and Nambya. By studying their livelihoods in particular, this book offers the first full manuscript about ethnic minorities in Zimbabwe. In doing so, it highlights the significance of these ethnic minorities to Zimbabwean history, politics and society.Table of ContentsHistoricising and Theorising the Livelihoods of Ethnic Minorities in Zimbabwe.- The Tshwa San of Zimbabwe: Land, Livelihoods, and Ethnicity.- Migrants, Ethnic Minorities and ‘Men of the Soil’: Basotho Farmers in Southern Rhodesia.- Displacement and Livelihood Vulnerability among the BaTonga Women of Binga from 1958 to 1980.- Transformations in the Livelihood Activities of Hlengwe People of the South-East Lowveld of Zimbabwe, 1890 to Now.- The Impact of Community-based Conservation on the Livelihoods of the Doma in the mid-Zambezi Valley.- Human-Wildlife Conflict and Precarious Livelihoods of the Tonga-speaking people of North-western Zimbabwe.- The Political Economy of Shangane Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe.- Land, Displacement and Livelihood Strategies among the Nambya People in North-western Zimbabwe, from the 1940s.- (Re)Inventing Livelihoods in Communal Areas in post-Fast Track Zimbabwe: The Case of Chewa Ex-farm Workers in Shamva Communal Areas.- Cultural Economic Survival under Crisis: Malawian Nyau Dances and Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown.- Ethnicity and Livelihoods in Precarious Times: The Case of the Ndau People of Chimanimani.- Changing Borderland Livelihoods and Coping Strategies among “Indigenous People”, “Malawians” and “Mozambicans” in Honde Valley since the 1970s.

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Book SynopsisIt is known that a society in transformation undergoes significant changes on many levels, but structural and cultural changes are arguably two of the most significant. How do such monumental changes affect the lives of individuals and small communities? Teachers on the Waves of Transformation aims to answer this question through the lens of education. With careful exploratory research at two schools in a small town in central Bohemia, anthropologist Dana Moree follows the fates of two generations of teachers at the schools. Through interviews with teachers, school administrators, and the students’ parents, Moree focuses on the relationships, values, shared stories, and symbolic and ritual worlds that create the culture of the schools. Teachers on the Waves of Transformation offers a unique perspective of cultural flux as witnessed in the classroom.Trade Review“Presents a wealth of valuable material.” -- Miroslav Vanek, professor of oral history at Charles University, Prague, and director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the Czech Academy of Sciences

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Book SynopsisThe book under review, Advances and Challenges in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, delves into various areas such as extension education, extension educational technology, administration and management, human relation in development administration and human resource development, participatory approaches, recent approaches in extension techniques, extension strategies for changing agricultural scenario and rural development, transfer of technology efforts, and recent advances in research methodology, which features highly innovative methods of applications and implementation. This book will be immensely beneficial to extension and rural development workers in devising and implementing communication strategies. Additionally, it will serve as a valuable resource for students pursuing studies in extension and rural development. Furthermore, it will prove to be a crucial aid to researchers, planners, and policy makers in making informed decisions and formulating plans regarding agricultural extension and rural development.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to empirically and theoretically study how the economic growth and inequality affected China’s rural poverty since China’s reform and opening-up. Apart from the trickle-down effect, some empirical researches show that rising inequality usually links with unfairly shared of the economic growth, which is not good for the poor, and this book particularly concerns with the impact of inequality on poverty reduction. In 11 chapters, it leads readers to review the dynamic changes of rural poverty in China, and estimates rural poverty by various methods, for instance, with analysis by monetary poverty (including income and expenditure poverty), multidimensional poverty, absolute poverty, and relative poverty. Especially attention is paid to apply the “growth-inequality-poverty triangle” model for long-term poverty dynamic changes evaluation. The book revisits poverty reduction strategies in different development periods for rural China and evaluates the poverty eradication achievements stage-by-stage under different analytical methods, in order to provide an objective assessment. Among the chapters, pro-poor growth, Shapley decomposition, poverty elasticity, density estimation, multidimensional poverty analysis, and policy simulation methods are applied for both national wide discussion and rural sub-group heterogeneity analysis. In addition to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of development, economic growth, equity, and welfare, the book is also of great interest to policy makers, planners, and non‐government agencies who are concerned with understanding and addressing poverty-related issues in the developing countries.Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China.- Chapter 2 Literature Review.- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty.- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China.- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty.- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents’ Poverty Dynamic Changes.- Chapter 7 Human Capital and Rural Residents’ Poverty Dynamic Changes.- Chapter 8 Dynamic Rural Poverty Changes by Regions: Current Status and Prospects.- Chapter 9 The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty.- Chapter 10 Relieving Relative Poverty in Rural China.- Appendix

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Book SynopsisAs an anthropologist and native of Gao Village, the author combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories to present a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world twenty years after the publication of his original ethnography of Gao Village. With his sympathetic and insider’s approach, the author argues that rural Chinese display great entrepreneurship and inner strength of self-improvement; they are active contributors to China’s economic boom.Trade Review“This sequel to Gao’s earlier work about his home village in Jiangxi Province is an engaging and digestible short course on contemporary China’s rural economy. The anecdotes from observation and personal knowledge of the lives of Gao villagers reflect Gao’s critical, often wry perspective; some of the best chapters are those that profile the lives of Gao villagers’ entrepreneurial vicissitudes in a relatively unregulated market environment.” – Ann Hill, Dickinson College

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Book SynopsisVietnam is a land whose features change dramatically within short distances--from mountains and high plateaus to coastal plains and inland swamps. To the south, the large delta formed by the Mekong and Lesser river systems inches forward yearly into the South China Sea. This delta, while hardly typical of all Vietnam, is one of the most fertile rice-producing regions of Southeast Asia. Its importance lies not only in the substantial contribution this area can, and will, provide, but it is also the area of most recent settlement by the Vietnamese. The study of its institutions reveals much about the prospects for social and economic change.The analysis of economic change in underdeveloped areas is beset with many complex questions: what factors account for economic activity? Among many signs of change, which are significant? How may one predict the probabilities of future economic development? Rural Vietnam: The Small World of Khanh Hau answers these questions for a VTable of Contents1: The Small World of Khanh Hau; 2: The Resources of Population; 3: The Resources of the Land; 4: Rice Production in Khanh Hau; 5: Secondary Farm Production; 6: The Marketing Process; 7: The Organization of Human Effort; 8: Productivity in Agriculture; 9: Village Expenditure and the Standard of Living; 10: Credit and Savings in a Rural Community; 11: Responses to Innovation and Change; 12: An Aggregate View of Economic Activity; 13: Economic Activity and the Social Setting

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