Global Perspectives on Building Resilience for Sustainable Rural Development by Li, Yuheng;

Hosszú leírás:

The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a global context. This general picture can be presented through three specific research questions, namely (1) What is the socio-economic status of rural development in the country? This research question tends to explore the socio-economic status of rural development in the contributor's country or in the country of study. It highlights the challenges to sustainable rural development in the country. (2) How are rural communities responding to these challenges? This research question focuses on analysing how rural communities are responding to challenges such as depopulation, spatial compression, economic marginalisation and climate change. (3) How can rural resilience to risks and future challenges be built? This research question aims to discuss possible approaches and actions to build rural resilience to current challenges and to seek transformation to better cope with and adapt to future challenges and unexpected risks.

The target audience of this book is researchers, postgraduate students and government officials in the field of rural and agricultural development. Readers can expect to gain a basic knowledge of rural resilience, a deeper understanding of rural development around the world, and different approaches to building resilience to challenges and shocks.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Chapter 1. Institutional innovation and its effect on rural China’s socioeconomic resilience.- Chapter 2. Smart and Compact Rural Settlements for Resilient and Sustainable Development in Nepal: Policy and Implementation Perspectives.- Chapter 3. Planning for Smart Village Initiatives Towards Climate Resilience in Natural Resource Management: Case Study of Udaipur District, India.- Chapter 4. Resilience for Rural Sustainable Development in Iran: Challenges and Approaches.- Chapter 5. Embeddedness of Environmental Politics in Tropical Rural Resilience: Analytical Innovation and Application in Brazil.- Chapter 6. Vegetation rehabilitation for rangeland resilience in China: comparative effectiveness between grazing control and ecological engineering.- Chapter 7. Smart villages-an instrument for building rural resilience in the European context: the example of Poland.- Chapter 8. Rural Development Challenges and Resilience Building in Northern and Central Europe: A Comparison of Sweden and Slovakia.