Growth and Change at the Rural-urban Interface
Growth and Change at the Rural-urban Interface

Author: Jill Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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Summarizes recent research contained in three previous piblications: EX-1, Township growth & change : population characteristics of Ohio's townships 1960-2000 (2001); EX-3, Land cover in Ohio's townships : an analysis of township land cover and population change (2002); and EX-4, Urbanization trends in Ohio : tracking Ohio's urban growth and land use change (2002).

Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World
Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World

Author: Kenny Lynch

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2004-09-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0203646274

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Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows that not all their aspects are as obvious as migration from country to city. There is now a growing realization that rural-urban relations are far more complex. Using a wealth of student-friendly features including boxed case studies, discussion questions and annotated guides to further reading, this innovative book places rural-urban interactions within a broader context, thus promoting a clearer understanding of the opportunities, as well as the challenges, that rural-urban interactions represent.

Population Growth and Urbanization in Latin America
Population Growth and Urbanization in Latin America

Author: John Melton Hunter

Publisher: Schenkman Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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Conference papers, case studies of population growth, rural migration and urbanization in the Caribbean and Latin America - discusses the impact of social change; includes projections to 2000; studies agrarian reform and farming development project in Mexico, internal migration and rural development in Honduras, population dynamics in Peru and St Vincent and the Grenadines, regional development in Brazil, the Lebanese Arab community (immigration) in Colombia; ends with a philosophical note on development policy. Graphs, maps, organigram, references, statistical tables.

The Rural-urban Interface in Africa
The Rural-urban Interface in Africa

Author: Jonathan Baker

Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Rural-Urban Interface
The Rural-Urban Interface

Author: Ellen Hoffmann

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-18

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 3030799727

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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.

The Peri-Urban Interface
The Peri-Urban Interface

Author: Duncan McGregor

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-04-27

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 113653606X

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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.