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The Rural-Urban Interface - An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Rural-Urban Interface - An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: The Urban Book Series
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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.
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