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  • Sociological Perspectives on Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Rural Populations
    Ladislaus M. Semali / Ladislaus MSemali
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    216,12 €

  • Foula
    Sheila Gear
    At the outer western edge of Shetland, 20 miles off the shores of the mainland, lies a more solitary isle, less nestled into the group. Foula is the furthest afield of Shetland’s own islands, to the outside world a place of mystery, wildness and, depending on one’s point of view, scary isolation.But these fanciful perspectives can obscure what really happens there. In the early...
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    17,41 €

  • Participatory Rural Appraisal Approaches
    Francis K. Lelo / Joseph O. Ayieko / Njeri Muhia
    Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a developmental method that has enabled many development organizations overcome the challenge of understanding and identifying the scope of local needs in which they operate. It aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in identifying and evaluating their needs, and hence in the planning, management, final implementati...
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    53,22 €

  • Britain’s rural Muslims
    Sarah Hackett
    This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain’s multicultural society. ...
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    40,59 €

  • Crossroads of Rural Crime
    Using the notion of ’crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide. ...
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    136,07 €

  • Development Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe
    for Conflict CCMT
    Rural communities, particularly in developing countries, face perpetual risks of being displaced by infrastructure development projects (e.g. dams, roads, transmission lines), urban development and expansion projects, or large-scale commercial projects (e.g. mining, timber and agriculture). Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, proper...
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    39,70 €

  • Securing Land Rights
    Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa
    Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by...
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    70,44 €

  • Ciudad Romero
    Marisín Isabel Dixon Silvera
    El libro relata la colonización dirigida de Ciudad Romero en las selvas de Panamá en Donoso, Atlántico Centro Occidental en la provincia de Colón y luego la repatriación de los refugiados salvadoreños a el Bajo Lempa. Asimismo, se aborda la migración internacional a otros países como los Estados Unidos de América y Canadá.La autora explica las bases de organización social, coop...
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    79,66 €

  • St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex
    Maggie Weir-Wilson
    Have you ever wondered about St Leonard’s Forest as you pass it by on your bicycle, in your car, or on the bus? Maybe you have walked its footpaths, with or without a dog. Was it a royal forest? Who owned it? What about its dragon? Wasn’t there something about a saint and the white and pink spring flowers, lily-of-the-valley? Wonder no more. This is the first in depth study of ...
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    45,73 €

  • The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
    Karen E. Hayden / Karen EHayden
    The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive to civilized, rural to urbanormative, backward to forward-thinking, and regress ve...
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    122,57 €

  • Climate-Induced Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region
    In this volume, contributors look at response, recovery and adaptation to climate-induced disasters, in Asia-Pacific - the world’s most disaster-prone region. Chapters examine case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa. ...
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    159,40 €

  • Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South
    Christine Crudo Blackburn / Macey Lively
    In Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the American Rural South, Christine Crudo Blackburn and Macey T. Lively study regions of the United States rarely acknowledged by the average American. These are regions of extreme poverty in the rural American South where a mixture of historical discrimination, structural discrimination, lack of opportunities, and decaying infrastr...
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    149,70 €

  • Research on Community Construction in Rural China
    Jiquan Xiang
    Rural community construction is an important topic of study in China. This book examines the development of various construction models, the reasons behind their emergence, and provides analyses based on their characteristics, problems, and trends.It offers insights from a historical perspective, through the study of organizational bases, structural functions, behavioral patter...
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    202,22 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VI
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks investigate the rural districts, traversing the South Eastern, South Western, and Eastern counties of England. We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear ...
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    33,28 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VII
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks take us into the Northern and Midland counties and further explore the South Eastern and Eastern counties of England. From hop-picking in Kent, to opium-eating in Cambridgeshire, we traverse these counties and disco...
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    33,48 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VI
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks investigate the rural districts, traversing the South Eastern, South Western, and Eastern counties of England. We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear ...
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    27,26 €

  • Labour and the Poor Volume VII
    Alexander Mackay / Shirley Brooks
    Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks take us into the Northern and Midland counties and further explore the South Eastern and Eastern counties of England. From hop-picking in Kent, to opium-eating in Cambridgeshire, we traverse these counties and disco...
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    27,45 €

  • Responsible Rural Tourism in Asia
    Rural tourism has contributed to the income generation of countries in Asia thereby reducing poverty and improving quality of life. This book explores the fundamentals of responsible rural tourism. It covers a range of Asian countries and examines both successful and failed attempts in developing responsible rural tourism. ...
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    181,92 €

  • Rural Voices
    In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With ...
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    54,30 €

  • Britain’s rural Muslims
    Sarah Hackett
    This book exposes the benefits of shifting academic attention away from the major conurbations of Muslim settlement, and reveals how a more rural county with relatively small Muslim populations also has a role to play in wider debates on Britain’s multicultural society. ...
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    157,34 €

  • Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe
    Grasian Mkodzongi
    This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform. ...
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    180,60 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Complete Series - 1 - 3
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains all three parts of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in his...
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    29,56 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - First Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the first series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in hi...
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    20,24 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Second Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the second series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in h...
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    20,24 €

  • Small Talk at Wreyland - Third Series
    Cecil Torr
    This vintage book contains the third series of Cecil Torr’s 1918 work 'Small Talk at Wreyland', a fascinating exploration of the history of South Devon, England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains extracts from family letters, documents, and anecdotes which offer insight into a vast range of social, political, and religious issues through the day-to-day life in hi...
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    20,28 €

  • Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line
    Anthony Cavender / Michael Braswell / Ralph Bland
    From drinking sweet tea on a beloved grandmother’s porch to playing army to witnessing prejudice and violence or receiving the lash, these stories illustrate growing up in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, what it felt, tasted, and looked like through the eyes of the boys who lived it. ...
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    14,38 €

  • Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line
    Anthony Cavender / Michael Braswell / Ralph Bland
    From drinking sweet tea on a beloved grandmother’s porch to playing army to witnessing prejudice and violence or receiving the lash, these stories illustrate growing up in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, what it felt, tasted, and looked like through the eyes of the boys who lived it. ...
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    27,64 €

  • African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development
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    216,49 €

  • Role of Regional Development Agencies in Entrepreneurial and Rural Development
    Milan B. Vemić / Milan BVemić
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    196,34 €

  • Broadlands and the New Rurality
    Sam Hillyard
    The work is a story of an English village and rural change more broadly. Based on original fieldwork funded by the RCUK, the book offers an important and original contribution to our understanding of rural spaces and the behaviour of the people who occupy them. ...
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    84,78 €


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