Tag: Rural

Free Download A Study of China’s Urban-Rural Integration Development
by Dangguo Ying, Wenyuan Wu
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811927553 | 324 Pages | True PDF | 4.87 MB

Free Download Keith Hoggart, "A Contrived Countryside: The Governance of Rural Housing in England 1900-74 "
English | ISBN: 3030626504 | 2021 | 582 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture. Using original archival sources to reveal the intricacies of local and national policy processes, weak rural housing performances are shown to owe more to national governance regimes than local under-performance. Looking `behind the scenes’ at policy processes highlights neglected principles in national governance, and shows how investigating rural housing is fundamental to understanding the national scene. With original insights and a new analytical perspective, this volume offers evidence and conclusions that challenge mainstream assumptions in public policy, housing, rural studies and planning.

Free Download Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine: Distribution and Population Density During the Late Ottoman and Early Mandate Period by David Grossman, translated by Marcia Grossman
English | January 15, 2011 | ISBN: 1412814669, 1138514306 | True EPUB | 246 pages | 3.9 MB
This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (1917-1948). The book focuses on demography, specifically migrations, population size, density, growth, and the pattern of distribution in rural Palestine before the inception of Jewish settlement (1882). Grossman traces little-known Muslim ethnic groups who settled in Palestine’s rural areas, primarily Egyptians, but also Algerians, Bosnians, and Circassians.

Free Download Elisabete Figueiredo Elisabeth Kastenholz, Maria João Carneiro, Celeste Eusébio, "Meeting Challenges for Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1443894885 | 2016 | 485 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicians and managers as a result of new market trends, the recognition of the rural crisis and the urge to solve it. However, there is also evidence that rural tourism is not a miraculous antidote for this crisis, certainly not in all places and under all conditions. Despite some recent studies examining the critical factors of success for rural tourism, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of the rural tourism phenomenon, the nature of the tourism experience and how it could be optimized to the benefit of all, while making the best use of endogenous resources and competences, yielding sustainable destination development. This book contributes to the debate, focusing on the tourist experience, here conceptualized as co-created between hosts and guests, based on destination-specific elements of countryside capital and aiming at sustainability. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.

Free Download Elisabete Figueiredo Elisabeth Kastenholz, Maria João Carneiro, Celeste Eusébio, "Meeting Challenges for Rural Tourism through Co-Creation of Sustainable Tourist Experiences"
English | ISBN: 1443894885 | 2016 | 485 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Rural tourism is not a new phenomenon in many parts of the world, but it has only recently received increased attention from researchers, politicians and managers as a result of new market trends, the recognition of the rural crisis and the urge to solve it. However, there is also evidence that rural tourism is not a miraculous antidote for this crisis, certainly not in all places and under all conditions. Despite some recent studies examining the critical factors of success for rural tourism, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of the rural tourism phenomenon, the nature of the tourism experience and how it could be optimized to the benefit of all, while making the best use of endogenous resources and competences, yielding sustainable destination development. This book contributes to the debate, focusing on the tourist experience, here conceptualized as co-created between hosts and guests, based on destination-specific elements of countryside capital and aiming at sustainability. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.

Free Download Brian Roberts, Stuart Wrathmell, "Region and Place: A study of English rural settlement"
English | 2003 | pages: 216 | ISBN: 185074775X | PDF | 35,2 mb
Using the data presented in their companion volume, An Atlas of Rural Settlement in England (2000), the authors offer preliminary explorations of some of the patterns revealed by comparing their new maps with the distribution of other types of landscape elements, archaeological sites and building styles. These two studies represent the culmination of a decade of research for English Heritage’s Monuments Protection programme. The Atlas defines the varied regional character of England’s rural settlement and the former distribution of cleared land, wooded land and open pastures, a quilt with origins daing from one or two thousand years ago or more. This volume explores some of the complext interactions and negotiations between the physical and cultural factors that underlie both national patterns and local and regional contrasts.

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 Rural Literacy Sponsorship Networks: Piloting Mixed-Methods Mapping for Small Communities
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032153237 | 168 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This text provides an in-depth exploration of rural community literacy, examining the ways in which community-building, social networks, time, race, and politics interplay. Mapping the dense literacy sponsorship network of a small rural town in the Southeastern U.S., Nichols offers a window into the challenges and successes of collective literacy sponsorship. Through an original mapping-focused approach, the book explores multiple social and environmental layers that construct literacy sponsorship writ large. This approach provides a novel methodological entry to rural literacies and will be key reading for rural community literacy advocates, literacy scholars, graduate students, and researchers.

Free Download Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail by Ellen Waterston
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0295747501 | 248 Pages | PDF | 7.0 MB
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West.

Free Download Transformations of Rural Spaces in Mozambique
by Cecilia Navarra and Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1786999242 | 233 Pages | True PDF | 3.5 MB