List of figures
List of tables
Lost of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Housing in rural settings
3. The nature-culture determinants of rural housing
4. Affordable houses
5. Housing affordability
6. Materials and resources in construction of affordable houses
7. Global practices in rural development
8. Vulnerability in rural communities
9. Resilience in rural communities
10. Sustained growth and development
11. Epilogue
Index
Biography
Hemanta Doloi is a senior lecturer in Construction Management discipline and Project Director of the Smart Villages project at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding director of the Smart Villages Lab (SVL) and the lead author of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages.
Sally Donovan is a research fellow with the Smart Villages Lab in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Donovan has over ten year’s experience researching environmental management and environmental policy development. She is a co-author of the book Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages.
