Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges Transformation in Rural Space /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Leimgruber, Walter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chang, Chang-yi David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, 4
• Θέματα: Human geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Human Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world. The various case studies focus on the multi-functionality of the rural world and the driving forces behind it. The book demonstrates that rural areas are no longer simpl...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I Introduction: Rural space between marginality and centrality. Approaches to marginality issues in rural areas
• Part II People: Impact of rural restructuring on the time-space behavioural patterns in a marginal area
• Spatial differentiation of social capital: A case study of peripheral and rural microregions in Czechia
• Rural Labour Markets and Peripherization Processes in Poland
• The role of identity in community activities of marginal rural areas
• Deconstructing financial inclusion and exclusion in the development discourse: case studies of microfinance operations in rural Bangladesh
• Part III Transformation processes: Agrarian and urban transitions in Lam Dong province, Vietnam: adaptation or marginalisation for ethnic minorities?
• The influence of globalization to overcome marginality in the Uco Valley of Mendoza, Argentina
• Advances in marginality studies in southern Mendoza, Argentine
• Demographic and economic change in small towns in New Zealand and the responses to marginalization
• Part IV Primary activities: An alternative agriculture space in an indigenous community: Kalala, Taiwan
• Restructuring of Japanese forestry and the current condition for the sustainability of more advanced forestry regions
• Urban agriculture in Zambia
• Part V Towards a multifunctional rural space: The role of traditional handicrafts in the development of rural areas: the case of Ribnica, Slovenia
• Windfarms in Champagne-Ardenne Region. An assessment of the acceptability and local governance issue
• Protected areas and the integration process of mountainous areas in mainland Southeast Asia: the case of Luang Nam Tha, Lao PDR
• Part VI Conclusion: Perspectives of rural space. .