Tag: Rural

Free Download Ajiang Chen, "Chinese "Cancer Villages": Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health"
English | ISBN: 9089647228 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The phenomenon of "cancer villages" has emerged in many parts of rural China, drawing media attention and becoming a fact of social life. However, the relationship between pollution and disease is often hard to discern. Through sociological analysis of several villages with different social and economic structures, the authors offer a comprehensive, historically grounded analysis of the coexistence between the incidence of cancer, environmental pollution and villagers’ lifestyles, as well as the perceptions, claims and responses of different actors. They situate the appearance of "cancer villages" in the context of social, economic and cultural change in China, tracing the evolution of the issue over two decades, and providing deep insights into the complex interactions and trade-offs between economic growth, environmental change and public health.

Free Download Rural Technology Development and Delivery: RuTAG and Its Synergy with Other Initiatives by Subir Kumar Saha
English | EPUB | 2019 | 357 Pages | ISBN : 9811364346 | 168.8 MB
This book comprises the proceedings of a rural technologies conference organised by the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG), which was conceptualized and initiated by Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India R. Chidambaram in 2003-04. The book highlights case studies and research into providing science and technology interventions for the development of rural areas. Covering various aspects of research carried out in the area of rural technologies, it offers a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and policymakers alike.

Free Download Thomas Heberer, "Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan’s New Ethnic Entrepreneurs "
English | ISBN: 0295987294 | 2007 | 280 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095

Free Download Jenny T. Chio, "A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China "
English | ISBN: 0295993650 | 2014 | 304 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person’s leisure is another person’s labor.

Free Download Hurdles in Fuel Choice in Rural India by Sanchita Daripa , Soumyananda Dinda
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 118 Pages | ISBN : 3031716043 | 4.3 MB
This Springer Brief presents a study that aims to identify the demand for cooking fuel at household level under different socio-economic conditions in rural India, with the goal of offering recommendations to reformulate and redesign energy policy. Households’ fuel choice and level of fuel consumption contribute to efforts toward sustainable development in emerging economy like India. In this context, it is important to identify the determining factors of fuel choice and consumption decision for cooking purpose at household level. Earlier studies mainly focused on fuel price and household income determining domestic fuel consumption, and insufficient attention has been given to other socioeconomic factors and decision processes for fuel choice. In this Brief, the double hurdle model is used to estimate the hurdles in fuel demand and its determinants at the household level in rural India.

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Free Download Creative Horizons: The Rise of Rural Design Studios in the Countryside by Anelly Aya
English | August 4, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DC6G8Q5V | 221 pages | EPUB | 1.86 Mb
"Creative Horizons: The Rise of Rural Design Studios in the Countryside" explores the trend of artists moving from urban environments to rural settings. This shift is reshaping the creative landscape, offering new opportunities for innovation, collaboration, and community building.

Free Download Tamara Jacka, "Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China"
English | ISBN: 1760466417 | 2024 | 314 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 9 MB
Ginkgo Village provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China’s recent tumultuous history. Drawing on ethnographic and life-history research, the book takes readers deep into a village in a mountainous region of central-eastern China known as Eyuwan. In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, villagers in this region experienced terrible trauma and far-reaching socio-economic and political change. In the civil war (1927-1949), they were slaughtered in fighting between Nationalist and Communist forces. During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), they suffered appalling famine. Since the 1990s, mass labour outmigration has lifted local villagers out of poverty and fuelled major transformations in their circumstances and practices, social and family relationships, and values and aspirations.

Free Download The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks Through Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CXZ9R4CZ | 2024 | 14 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 409 MB
Author: Corinne Fowler
Narrator: Corinne Fowler
Ten walks through idyllic scenery reveal the countryside’s forgotten links to transatlantic slavery and colonialism-a work of accessible history that will transform our understanding of British landscapes and heritage. The green fields, rugged highlands, and rolling hills of England, Scotland, and Wales are commonly associated with adventure, romance, and seclusion as well as literary figures like Jane Austen and William Wordsworth. But in reality, many of these rural places-with their country houses, lakes, and shorelines-were profoundly changed by British colonial activity. Even hamlets and villages were affected by distant colonial events. Taking ten country walks, author Corinne Fowler explores the unique colonial dimensions of British agriculture, copper-mining, landownership, wool-making, coastal trade, and factory work in cotton mills. One route shows the links between English country houses and Indian colonization.

Free Download G. E. Mingay, "The Rural Idyll "
English | ISBN: 1138743852 | 2017 | 186 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This book, first published in 1989, recounts the changing perceptions of the countryside throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, helping us to understand more fully the issues that have influenced our view of the ideal countryside, past and present. Some of the chapters are concerned with ways in which Victorian artists, poets, and prose writers portrayed the countryside of their day; others with the landowners’ impressive and costly country houses, and their prettification of ‘model’ villages, reflecting fashionable romantic and Gothic styles. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Free Download Rural Aging in 21st Century America By Nina Glasgow, E. Helen Berry (auth.), Nina Glasgow, E. Helen Berry (eds.)
2013 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 940075566X | PDF | 5 MB
This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 percent of the nonmetropolitan compared to 12 percent of the metropolitan population were 65 years of age and older. By definition rural communities have smaller sized populations, and more limited healthcare, transportation and other aging-relevant services than do urban areas. It is thus especially important to study and understand aging in rural environments. Rural Aging in 21st Century America contributes evidence-based, policy-relevant information on rural aging in the U.S. A primary objective of the book is to improve understanding of what makes the experience of rural aging different from aging in urban areas and to increase understanding of the aged change the nature of rural places. The book addresses unique features of rural aging across economic, racial/ethnic, migration and other structures and patterns, all with a focus on debunking myths about rural aging and to emphasize opportunities and challenges that rural places and older people experience.