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The Peri-Urban Interface |
Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use:
The only comprehensive book on peri-urban (rural-urban) areas of the developing world, home to hundreds of millions of people; written by the leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Complete coverage of core topics including resource sustainability, livelihoods, agriculture, urbanization, planning, and governance, and future action plans for research and problem solving. Vast case material from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Peri-urban interfaces--the places 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 agriculture land degradation. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need unique 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 zone, and lays out strategies for researching and overcoming these problems and promoting truly sustainable natural and human resource development.
Duncan McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway and Director of the department’s Centre for Developing Areas Research.
Donald Thompson is Departmental Skills and Training and IT Officer at Royal Holloway.
Contents:
Part I: The Search for Peri-Urban Resource Sustainability * Contemporary Perspectives * Peri-urban Ecosystems and Societies * Environmental Change * Policies and Strategies
Part II: Production Systems * Impacts of Agriculture * Horticulture and Markets * Dairy Enterprises * Waste-fed Fisheries * Pastoral Livelihoods * Sustainable Livelihoods
Part III: Planning and Development of the Peri-urban Zone * The Illusiveness of Sustainability * Peri-urban Development in Sri Lanka * Highway Construction * Conflict and Co-operation * Re-evaluating People--Environment Relationships
Part IV: Strategies for Sustainable Development ? Community-based Waste Management * Measuring Sustainability in Peri-urban Areas * Promoting the Interests of the Poor * Co-management of Watersheds
Part V: Synthesis * Towards Peri-urban Sustainability * Bibliography, Index
Published by Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Edited by Duncan McGregor , David Simon , Donald Thompson
February 2006
272 pp., 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
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