Rural Development Books

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111. Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society

     Edited by Grete Rusten, Sarah Skerratt

     Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

     Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME (or micro-enterprise), a non-business person, a retired...

     Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
112. Contested Coastlines

     Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia

     By Charu Gupta, Mukul Sharma

     This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other’s territorial waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics of boundaries, it reveals how these...

     Published August 31st 2007 by Routledge
113. The Challenge of Rural Electrification

     Strategies for Developing Countries

     By Douglas F. Barnes

     Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population...

     Published July 10th 2007 by RFF Press
114. The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger

     An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution

     By M. Riad El-Ghonemy

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

     M. Riad El-Ghonemy argues that if current trends in government-led and market based land reforms persist the rural poor population in developing countries will continue to rise. Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on...

     Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge
115. The Economics of Agricultural Development

     World Food Systems and Resource Use

     By George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, William A. Masters

     Persistent problems with poverty, rapid population growth and malnutrition in many developing countries are among the most serious issues facing the world today. This book examines the causes, severity and effects of these problems, as well as potential solutions. The authors consider the...

     Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
116. The Social Economics of Poverty

     Edited by Christopher B. Barrett

     Series: Priorities for Development Economics

     A unique analysis of the moral and social dimensions of microeconomic behaviour in developing countries, this book calls into question standard notions of rationality and many of the assumptions of neo-classical economics, and shows how these are inappropriate in communities with widespread...

     Published September 21st 2005 by Routledge
117. Sustainable Development in Rural China

     Farmer Innovation and Self-Organisation in Marginal Areas

     By Bin Wu

     Sustainable development in marginal areas, especially in those where rural poverty and environmental degradation are interwoven, is a great concern of development agencies worldwide, and much effort is put into development programmes, technology transfer schemes and so on. The problem is...

     Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge
118. Agroecological Innovations

     Increasing Food Production with Participatory Development

     Edited by Norman Uphoff

     The world's food supply needs to rise significantly, yet both arable and water supplies per capita are decreasing. Not only are modern agricultural methods beyond the reach of those suffering the greatest food insecurity but they are also ecologically damaging, relying upon fossil energy and...

     Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge
119. Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

     Critical Anthropological Perspectives

     Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes

     Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

     The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional...

     Published August 7th 2000 by Routledge
120. Ecology of Practice

     By Nyerges

     First published in 1998...

     Published February 24th 1998 by Routledge