Rural category: 418 books
Eat Local, Taste Global
How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
local food movement and food sovereignty are hot topics
authors are critical of the corporate food regime and mainstream agricultural practices,
critical of farmers' markets and community shared agriculture programs for not being inclusive enough in terms of poorer, ethnic, and non-white groups, and...
Community Biodiversity Management
Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by those...
Living on Thin Ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The Gwich’in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication technologies introduced radically new value systems; while some of these changes may be seen as socially beneficial,...
by Barbara Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
For history buffs, politics and Aboriginal affairs enthusiasts, this book is an eye-opening look at Aboriginal Affairs in Australia and in the biggest former reserve in Queensland – Yarrabah near Cairns. It is a must on the shelves of history teachers, University lecturers, students and those who...
by Mark B. Lapping
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifestation of the environmental movement, the revolution prompted governments at several levels to attempt to protect critical areas and vulnerable natural...
by Robert Habeck
Language: German
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Gegen eine verzagte Demokratie – wir müssen für unsere Republik streiten! Neuauflage 2018 mit einem 50-seitigen aktuellen Nachwort über das politische Jahr 2017, über persönliche Erfahrungen in den Jamaika-Sondierungen – und über Robert Habecks Vorstellungen einer anderen Politik Die sogenannte...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In the second half of the twentieth century, significant changes were occurring within the agricultural industry, including an increase in efficiency and government intervention, as well as expanded and more complicated patterns of trade. This comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, reflects...
Legacies of Violence
History, Society, and the State in Sardinia
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The inhabitants of highland Sardinia proudly declare a long history of resistance to outside authority. Many even celebrate the belief that “not even the Roman Empire reached this far.” Yet, since the late nineteenth century, the Italian government has pacified and integrated the mountain districts...
Ecovillaggi e Cohousing
Dove sono, chi li anima, come farne parte o realizzarne di nuovi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Sono sempre più numerosi giovani e meno giovani che decidono di andare a vivere in un cohousing o in un ecovillaggio, una scelta dettata non solo da motivi economici (vivere insieme costa decisamente meno), ma anche dal crescente bisogno di uno stile di vita sobrio e a basso impatto ambientale, basato...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book gathers five papers presented to the ECAS’ 2013 proceedings. Following the theme of the Congress “African dynamics in a multipolar world”, the challenge was to select among the 118 papers presented those which focused in the subjects of informality and space reconfiguration. The papers...
Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods
Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Fair and ethical trade is often criticized for being highly gendered, and for institutionalizing the ethical values of consumers, the priorities of NGOs and governments, and most of all, food retailers. But little is known about how women smallholder farmers experience diverse ethical standards,...
Féminin-masculin
Genre et agricultures familiales
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Où en est-on aujourd’hui de la place des femmes, par rapport aux hommes, dans les agricultures familiales, dans les pays du Nord comme ceux du Sud ? Où sont les données quantitatives et comment les analyser ? Peu de publications en langue française répondent à ces questions.
Pourtant,...
Building Resilience of Floating Children and Left-Behind Children in China
Power, Politics, Participation, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China. Emerging from this growth is a population of floating and left-behind children which is estimated to be approaching 100 million. Due to their increasing risks of undesirable educational and social, as well as...
by Peilin Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
China's success on economic growth and its exploration on political reform in the past few decades have attracted the attention from worldwide economic and political experts. This book studies China's transformation and experience from a sociological perspective, which broadens the research horizons...