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Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Rural planning

The Reform of the CAP and Rural Development in Southern Europe (Hardcover, New edition): George Stathakis The Reform of the CAP and Rural Development in Southern Europe (Hardcover, New edition)
George Stathakis; Edited by Charalambos Kasimis
R3,054 R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Save R236 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today the use of the term countryside reflects a dual historical shift due to the decreasing importance of agriculture - both in terms of employment and production - in European economies and the shift toward the environment. An increasing part of rural populations is being drawn into non-agricultural sectors such as tourism, construction, manufacturing, and the conventional and innovative services, thereby granting a more diversified and contemporary role to the countryside. The environmental shift has questioned many of the very fundamental premises governing the relationship between social practices and nature. Agenda 2000 and the ongoing debate concerning the CAP reforms are connected to a large extent with these new realities. This engaging book focuses on the prospects for the development of the Southern European countryside during a transitional period of a major policy paradigm shift. Bringing together case studies from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece, the book discusses the key issues mentioned above, as well as the restricting factors and prospects of the adjustments required.

Rural Planning in Developing Countries - Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods (Hardcover): Barry... Rural Planning in Developing Countries - Supporting Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Livelihoods (Hardcover)
Barry Dalal-Clayton, David Dent, Olivier Dubois
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an international perspective on rural planning, focused on developing countries. It examines conventional development planning and innovative local planning approaches, drawing together lessons from recent experience of rural planning and land use. The authors examine past and current practice and ways that land use planning and management of natural resources can underpin sustainable local livelihoods. They draw on case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America to present findings relevant throughout the developing world.

Urban Planet - Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities (Hardcover): Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie... Urban Planet - Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities (Hardcover)
Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, …
R1,888 Discovery Miles 18 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.

Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond (Hardcover): Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D Lytras, Gyoergy Mudri Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond (Hardcover)
Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D Lytras, Gyoergy Mudri
R2,736 R2,444 Discovery Miles 24 440 Save R292 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Written by leading academics and practitioners in the field, Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond offers a detailed insight into issues and developments that shape the debate on smart villages, together with concepts, developments and policymaking initiatives including the EU Action for Smart Villages. This book derives from the realization that the implications of the increasing depopulation of rural areas across the EU is a pending disaster. This edited collection establishes a framework for action today, which will lead to sustainable revitalization of rural areas tomorrow. Using country-specific case studies, the chapters examine how integrated and ICT-conscious strategies and policy actions focused on wellbeing, sustainability and solidarity could provide a long-term solution in the revitalization of villages across the EU and elsewhere. Best practices pertinent to precision farming, energy diversification, tourism, entrepreneurship are discussed in detail. As an in-depth exploration of the Smart Village on a multinational scale, this book will serve as an indispensable resource for students, researchers and policy leaders in the fields of politics, strategic management and urban and rural studies.

Smart Development for Rural Areas (Paperback): Andre Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frederic Wallet, Hans Westlund Smart Development for Rural Areas (Paperback)
Andre Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frederic Wallet, Hans Westlund
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This thought-provoking book questions the framework of the Horizon 2020 strategy and the policies of smart development. It aims to answer the following question: Is there any possibility for a policy of smart development and smart specialization in rural and peri-urban areas? Based on detailed analytical studies, empirical and econometric methods, as well as various European case studies, several conclusions are drawn. Smart development policies are well adapted to the developed or intermediate regions containing at the same time rural and urban areas, but do not really function for the more rural or more peripheral regions. The development policies of rural areas must be adapted to their particular characteristics, to the structure of their economies (agriculture, small firms), as well as in their diversity (distant regions, intermediate regions, rural areas near the urban areas). It appears interesting to exploit natural and cultural amenities, to develop the multifunctional character of the agriculture, to promote territorial innovation under all its forms, to favor the synergies between the various uses of land and space, and to develop the knowledge on the ecological, socioeconomic processes, as well as on the mechanisms of territorial governance. These results are very important because they question the validity of the H2020 policy and the smart development and smart specialization policies and their applicability to the whole European area, and not only for the most urban and rich areas. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and policy-makers in regional development, rural studies, spatial planning and economic geography.

Home - International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging (Paperback, New edition): Margarethe Kusenbach, Krista E.... Home - International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging (Paperback, New edition)
Margarethe Kusenbach, Krista E. Paulsen
R1,544 Discovery Miles 15 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people's everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both ideally and practically, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one's home deviate from cultural ideals - for instance, in crowded, institutional, or stigmatized housing contexts, in disadvantaged or transient neighborhoods, or when one has no permanent dwelling at all - the authors illuminate how experiences and practices of home are central to what it means to be human.

Landscape Considerations in Spatial Planning (Hardcover, New edition): Ingrid Belcakova, Laszlo Miklos, Anna Spinerova, Andrea... Landscape Considerations in Spatial Planning (Hardcover, New edition)
Ingrid Belcakova, Laszlo Miklos, Anna Spinerova, Andrea Diviakova, Erika Kocicka, …
R1,288 Discovery Miles 12 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The landscape is a vital spatial and material frame for our natural and man-made environment and is considered by many stakeholders to be one of the most important aspects of a healthy, enjoyable life. This book deals with the current trends in the theory of the integration of landscape aspects in spatial planning and development processes. The authors discuss the need for integrated land use planning, landscape planning and impact assessment, and explore landscape consideration practice in European countries, with a special focus on Slovakia. Information about landscape decision-making approaches and cases illustrates current practice and lessons from experience, providing baseline material for landscape academic forum, members of the public and professionals in spatial development making: planners, designers, architects, engineers and others. This practice-oriented and up-to-date monograph is a sourcebook and reference guide to key trends, issues of and approaches to sustainable spatial development in European countries.

Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development - Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development... Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development - Agroecology and Rural Innovation for Development (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Sieglinde Snapp, Barry Pound
R2,282 Discovery Miles 22 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Agricultural Systems, Second Edition, is a comprehensive text for developing sustainable farming systems. It presents a synthetic overview of the emerging area of agroecology applications to transforming farming systems and supporting rural innovation, with particular emphasis on how research can be harnessed for sustainable agriculture. The inclusion of research theory and examples using the principles of cropping system design allows students to gain a unique understanding of the technical, biological, ecological, economic and sociological aspects of farming systems science for rural livelihoods. This book explores topics such as: re-inventing farming systems; principles and practice of agroecology; agricultural change and low-input technology; ecologically-based nutrient management; participatory breeding for developing improved and relevant crops; participatory livestock research for development; gender and agrarian inequality at the local scale; the nature of agricultural innovation; and outreach to support rural innovation. The extensive coverage of subjects is complemented with integrated references and a companion website, making this book essential reading for courses in international agricultural systems and management, sustainable agricultural management, and cropping systems. This book will be a valuable resource for students of agricultural science, environmental engineering, and rural planning; researchers and scientists in agricultural development agencies; and practitioners of agricultural development in government extension programs, development agencies, and NGOs.

Rural Gerontology - Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing (Hardcover): Mark Skinner, Rachel Winterton, Kieran Walsh Rural Gerontology - Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing (Hardcover)
Mark Skinner, Rachel Winterton, Kieran Walsh
R4,503 Discovery Miles 45 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides the first foundation of knowledge about the intellectual traditions, contemporary scope and future prospects for the interdisciplinary field of rural gerontology. With a focus on rural regions, small towns and villages, which have the highest rates of population ageing worldwide, Rural Gerontology is aimed at understanding what it means for rural people, communities and institutions to be at the forefront of twenty-first-century demographic change. The book offers important insights from rural ageing studies into today's most pressing gerontological problems. With chapters from more than 65 established and emerging rural ageing researchers, it is the first synthesis of knowledge about rural gerontology, harnessing a burgeoning interdisciplinary scholarship on the rural dimensions of ageing, old age and older populations. With a view to advancing a critical understanding of rural ageing populations, this book will have an overreaching impact across the social sciences by drawing on advancements in understandings of rural ageing from social, environmental, geographical and critical gerontology to facilitate a comprehensive exploration of the diversity, complexity and implications of the ageing process in rural settings. Bringing together valuable international perspectives, this book makes a timely contribution to gerontology, rural studies and the social sciences, and will appeal to scholars and researchers across USA and Canada, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, China and countries in Africa, South America and South-East Asia.

Smart Development for Rural Areas (Hardcover): Andre Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frederic Wallet, Hans Westlund Smart Development for Rural Areas (Hardcover)
Andre Torre, Stefano Corsi, Michael Steiner, Frederic Wallet, Hans Westlund
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This thought-provoking book questions the framework of the Horizon 2020 strategy and the policies of smart development. It aims to answer the following question: Is there any possibility for a policy of smart development and smart specialization in rural and peri-urban areas? Based on detailed analytical studies, empirical and econometric methods, as well as various European case studies, several conclusions are drawn. Smart development policies are well adapted to the developed or intermediate regions containing at the same time rural and urban areas, but do not really function for the more rural or more peripheral regions. The development policies of rural areas must be adapted to their particular characteristics, to the structure of their economies (agriculture, small firms), as well as in their diversity (distant regions, intermediate regions, rural areas near the urban areas). It appears interesting to exploit natural and cultural amenities, to develop the multifunctional character of the agriculture, to promote territorial innovation under all its forms, to favor the synergies between the various uses of land and space, and to develop the knowledge on the ecological, socioeconomic processes, as well as on the mechanisms of territorial governance. These results are very important because they question the validity of the H2020 policy and the smart development and smart specialization policies and their applicability to the whole European area, and not only for the most urban and rich areas. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and policy-makers in regional development, rural studies, spatial planning and economic geography.

Determinants, Consequences and Perspectives of Land Reform Politics in Newly Industrializing Countries - A Comparison of the... Determinants, Consequences and Perspectives of Land Reform Politics in Newly Industrializing Countries - A Comparison of the Indian and the South African Case (Hardcover, New edition)
David Betge
R2,148 Discovery Miles 21 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This comparative case study addresses central determinants of inequalities that persist in India and South Africa. The particular focus of the study is on programs aiming at the redistribution of land to the landless poor and these programs' consequences. The central question is why extreme inequalities persist despite land redistribution programs that have been in place for decades and what role different actors and dominant ideas play in this. Beyond this empirical focus, the study transcends theoretical cleavages in the social sciences by following the basic ideas of Giddens' Structurational Theory. An actor-centred approach is chosen as the primary tool for analysis. It is complemented with a structurational approach to discourse analysis for a detailed analysis of actors' preferences.

Housing Policy Innovation in the Global South (Hardcover): Paavo Monkkonen Housing Policy Innovation in the Global South (Hardcover)
Paavo Monkkonen
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastructure, and bring city amenities to urban peripheries compounds the continued need for new housing of a decent standard. This comprehensive volume spans nine countries, simultaneously analyzing innovative housing policies and questioning the idea of innovation in this arena. The authors describe three persistent, global challenges to contemporary policy: the inherent difficulty in mass-producing housing of decent quality with access to the city; the challenge of community-based upgrading programmes, which often fail to benefit those who are worst off; and the political root of housing policies, which don't always consider the diverse needs of populations at the expense of the least powerful. This volume raises questions about what many consider the two most successful areas of housing policy in the Global South: the community-based land sharing programmes for redevelopment in South-East Asia and the finance-driven social housing programmes in Latin America. The authors examine mass housing production programmes, incremental development processes, community-based urban upgrading, the legal structure of condominiums, and land-sharing policies, while also highlighting challenges to policy learning across contexts. This book will be of great interest to students, researchers and those involved with contemporary housing policies, particularly in the Global South. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Housing Policy.

Welfare Reform in Rural Places - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover): Paul Milbourne, Terry Marsden Welfare Reform in Rural Places - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
Paul Milbourne, Terry Marsden; Series edited by Paul Milbourne
R3,252 Discovery Miles 32 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas. This book seeks to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. "International Perspectives on Rural Welfare" provides a critical, comprehensive and comparative account of the rural dimensions of welfare in a number of developed countries. The book brings together recent research from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand to provide the seminal international book on rural welfare. As well as being international in its outlook, it provides an inter-disciplinary focus on rural welfare by including contributors from sociology, human geography, social policy and social anthropology. The definition of welfare used within the book is broad, encompassing overarching welfare and workfare agendas, as well as more specific welfare policy areas such as anti-poverty, health, housing, social security, social work and education.

From Community to Consumption - New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research (Hardcover): Alessandro Bonanno, Hans... From Community to Consumption - New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research (Hardcover)
Alessandro Bonanno, Hans Baker, Raymond Jussaume, Yoshio Kawamura, Mark Shuksmith; Series edited by …
R3,478 Discovery Miles 34 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited book contains salient papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology held in South Korea in 2008. These papers have been selected for their quality and have undergone a peer review process. The rationale behind this book rests on the desire to share the wealth of research presented at the World Congress with interested individuals who could not attend the event and it reflects the empirical work and thinking characterizing contemporary rural sociology. As this sociological sub-discipline evolves along with society and the rural world, it appears of paramount importance to make available ground-breaking research to the international scientific community. Rural sociology is changing and this volume testifies of this change by documenting the introduction of new themes of research as well as the evolution of established ones. In this regard, it provides a unique and uniquely international view of the most recent advanced production in rural sociology. The volume consists of eighteen chapters representing original pieces of research and an introduction that frames them in the context of the evolution of the discipline.

Spatial Planning and Governance - Understanding UK Planning (Hardcover, New): Mark Tewdwr-Jones Spatial Planning and Governance - Understanding UK Planning (Hardcover, New)
Mark Tewdwr-Jones
R4,930 Discovery Miles 49 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopted at all levels of the UK planning system from European through to the national, regional, sub-regional and local level.

Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages (Hardcover): Hemanta Doloi, Ray Green, Sally Donovan Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages (Hardcover)
Hemanta Doloi, Ray Green, Sally Donovan
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Some 7.3 billion people currently live on the planet. Of these, 3.4 billion live in rural areas. In just a few regions-Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa-less than 50 per cent of poverty is now located in rural areas. But for the rest of the world's regions between 55 per cent and 80 per cent of the poor continue to live in the countryside. Progress is being made, but much of the knowhow needed is not disseminated outside of a small coterie of professionals who work in the area. With urban development attracting a great deal of attention lately, poorer rural areas deserve the same and new knowledge for empowerment of rural communities is urgently needed. This book provides an overview of current thinking and practices that have emerged over the last thirty years for uplifting rural communities in developing economies. Drawing on a body of knowledge across a spectrum of relevant disciplines, this book provides a range of innovative ideas for rural planning, housing and infrastructure development. Governments in many emerging economies, where rural poverty is often most acute, have attempted to improve livelihoods. Approaches and techniques that have been used for urban development are often not applicable to rural communities. Studies show that money allocated for rural development is often not effectively spent due to distance, lack of infrastructure, lack of education, poverty and other factors. Meanwhile, the gap in development between the city and country continues to grow, sometimes leading to social and political instability, in both developing and developed countries. This book seeks to provide a guidebook for meeting such challenges. Through in-depth enquiry of global practices and thinking about rural development, and selected case studies, the authors argue that careful consideration must be given to incorporating issues of resilience, resourcefulness and the involvement of communities at grassroots levels in realising the transformation of rural settlements into Smart Villages.

Rural Tourism Development - Localism and Cultural Change (Paperback): E. Wanda George, Heather Mair, Donald G Reid Rural Tourism Development - Localism and Cultural Change (Paperback)
E. Wanda George, Heather Mair, Donald G Reid
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with both the nature of change in rural areas and tourism development, the dynamics and impacts of integrating these two dramatic shifts are not well known but yet are becoming increasingly provocative discourses for study. This book links changes at the local, rural community level to broader, more structural considerations of globalization and allows for a deeper, more theoretically sophisticated consideration of the various forces and features of rural tourism development. While Canadian in content, the cases and discussions presented in this book can be considered generally relevant to any rural region, continentally and globally, that has undertaken or is considering rural tourism development.

Instruments of Land Policy - Dealing with Scarcity of Land (Hardcover): Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann Instruments of Land Policy - Dealing with Scarcity of Land (Hardcover)
Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann
R4,633 Discovery Miles 46 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen understanding of these instruments of land policy. This book not only presents how such instruments function, it additionally examines how public authorities strategically manage the scarcity of land, either increasing or decreasing it, to promote a more sparing use of resources. It presents 13 instruments of land policy in specific national contexts and discusses them from the perspectives of other countries. Through the use of concrete examples, the book reveals how instruments of land policy are used strategically in different policy contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy (Hardcover): Matteo Vittuari, John Devlin, Marco Pagani, Thomas G. Johnson The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy (Hardcover)
Matteo Vittuari, John Devlin, Marco Pagani, Thomas G. Johnson
R6,779 Discovery Miles 67 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program. Over this period dozens of scientists from different disciplines but with a common interest in rural issues and policy have collaboratively studied the policies in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world. A core element of the book is the idea and practice of comparative research and analysis - what can be learned from comparisons, how and why policies vary in different contexts, and what lessons might or might not be "transferable" across borders. It provides skills for the use of comparative methods as important tools to analyze the functioning of strategies and specific policy interventions in different contexts and a holistic approach for the management of resources in rural regions. It promotes innovation as a tool to valorize endogenous resources and empower local communities and offers case studies of rural policy in specific contexts. The book largely adopts a territorial approach to rural policy. This means the book is more interested in rural regions, their people and economies, and in the policies that affect them, than in rural sectors, and sectoral policies per se. The audience of the book is by definition international and includes students attending courses in agricultural and rural policy, rural and regional studies, and natural resource management; lecturers seeking course material and case studies to present to their students in any of the courses listed above; professionals working in the field of rural policy; policy-makers and civil servants at different levels seeking tools to better understand rural policy both at the local and global scale and to better recognize and comprehend how to transfer best practices.

Democratic Rural Organizations - Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia (Hardcover): Esbern Friis-Hansen, Janki Andharia,... Democratic Rural Organizations - Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia (Hardcover)
Esbern Friis-Hansen, Janki Andharia, Suubi Godfrey
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product. Democratic Rural Organizations: Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia traces the evolution of democratic rural organizations from small groups to larger, NGO financed, multi-tier democratic rural organizations in recent years. Rural citizens have historically formed democratic organizations by their own initiative, to enhance economic and social wellbeing, but in recent years rural mobilization processes are frequently initiated and supported by national Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), who are financed and guided by international NGOs, a process which has had mixed results. Using rich empirical material from Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia, Democratic Rural Organizations: Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia identifies eight thresholds which represent practical stages in the development pathway of democratic rural organizations and influence success or failure. Both development practitioners and researchers of development and rural policy will find this book a useful guide to the deployment of democratic organization as a strategy for economic and political empowerment.

Forests and Rural Development (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014): Jürgen Pretzsch, Dietrich Darr,... Forests and Rural Development (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Jürgen Pretzsch, Dietrich Darr, Holm Uibrig, Eckhard Auch
R5,479 Discovery Miles 54 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an overview of the complex challenges and opportunities related to forest-based rural development in the tropics and subtropics. Applying a socio-ecological perspective, the book traces the changing paradigms of forestry in rural development throughout history, summarizes the major aspects of the rural development challenge in forest areas and documents innovative approaches in fields such as land utilization, technology and organizational development, rural advisory services, financing mechanisms, participative planning and forest governance. It brings together scholars and practitioners dealing with the topics from various theoretical and practical angles. Calling for an approach that carefully balances market forces with government intervention, the book shows that forests in rural areas have the potential to provide a solid foundation for a green global economy.

Teaching Landscape - The Studio Experience (Paperback): Karsten  Jorgensen, Nilgul Karadeniz, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles Teaching Landscape - The Studio Experience (Paperback)
Karsten Jorgensen, Nilgul Karadeniz, Elke Mertens, Richard Stiles
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios. This is the companion volume to The Routledge Handbook of Teaching Landscape in the two-part set initiated by the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). Design and planning studio as a form of teaching lies at the core of landscape architecture education. They can simulate a professional situation and promote the development of creative solutions based on gaining an understanding of a specific project site or planning area; address existing challenges in urban and rural landscapes; and often involve interaction with real stakeholders, such as municipality representatives, residents or activist groups. In this way, studio-based planning and design teaching brings students closer to everyday practice, helping to prepare them to create real-world, problem-solving designs. This book provides fully illustrated examples of studios from over twenty different schools of landscape architecture worldwide. With over 250 full colour images, it is an essential resource for instructors and academics across the landscape discipline, for the continuously evolving process of discussing and generating improved teaching modes in landscape architecture.

After Suburbia - Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Roger Keil, Fulong Wu After Suburbia - Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Roger Keil, Fulong Wu
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.

Regional Development in Rural Areas - Analytical Tools and Public Policies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Andre Torre, Frederic... Regional Development in Rural Areas - Analytical Tools and Public Policies (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Andre Torre, Frederic Wallet
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development and issues of rural development. The text addresses the question of the disputed notions and definitions of rural development in rural and regional studies, examines the literature of regional and territorial development and the policies of regional development and planning. It also presents scenarios for the future of rural areas, with a focus on European territories.

Italian Historical Rural Landscapes - Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development (Paperback, 2013 ed.): Mauro... Italian Historical Rural Landscapes - Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Mauro Agnoletti
R5,916 Discovery Miles 59 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical relationships between man and nature have generated, not deterioration, but cultural, environmental, social and economic values. The results show that is not only the economic face of globalization that is negatively affecting the landscape, but also inappropriate environmental policies. The CBD-UNESCO program on biocultural diversity, the FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and several projects of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, as well as European rural policies acknowledge the importance of cultural values associated to landscape. This research intends to support these efforts.

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