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41. 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
42. Farmers and Village Life in Japan

    Edited by Yoshiaki Nishida, Ann Waswo

    Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort.This book...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
43. China Along the Yellow River

    Reflections on Rural Society

    By Cao Jinqing

    This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era', it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the Yellow River undertaken by the author...

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
44. Citizenships Contingen&Country

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
45. Rural Poverty

    Marginalisation and Exclusion in Britain and the United States

    By Paul Milbourne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book...

    Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
46. Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape

    2nd Edition

    By Simon Bell

    Public concern about the landscape, in particular its appearance, is increasing all the time. For those charged with managing, developing or conserving a wide range of landscapes it is a major task to take visual aspects into account. Elements of Visual Design in the Landsacpe presents a vocabulary...

    Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
47. Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside

    Rights, Culture, Land and the Environment

    By Gavin Parker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside defines citizenship in relation to the rural environment. The book expands and explores a widened conceptualization of citizenship and sets out a range of examples where citizenship, at different scales, has been expressed in and over the rural...

    Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
48. Mountain Environments and Communities

    By Don Funnell, Romola Parish

    Mountain Environments and Communities explains the background physical environment and then explores the environmental and social dimensions of mountain regions.This critical review of the concepts currently employed in mountain research, draws upon a wide range of examples from developed and...

    Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge
49. Woodland Habitats

    By Mark Frater, Helen J. Read

    Series: Habitat Guides

    Woodland habitats explores the history and ecology of British woodland and explains why they a re such a valuable resource. It examines the wide range of different types of woodland habitats and the typical species that live within them. It offers a practical guide to all the key woodland issues...

    Published June 9th 1999 by Routledge
50. Upland Habitats

    By Alan F. Fielding, Paul F. Haworth

    Series: Habitat Guides

    Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bogs, montane and sub-montane forests. The book examines the unique characteristics of uplands and the...

    Published June 2nd 1999 by Routledge