1st Edition
Patterns Of Change In Developing Rural Regions
165 Pages
by
Routledge
165 Pages
by
Routledge
165 Pages
by
Routledge
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Development specialists often overlook the feet that the towns of a rural region play as essential a role in the region's economy as does agriculture, and they design and implement broad strategies without due recognition of the unique and dynamic character of each individual region. Proper analysis requires consideration of the changing nature of rural regions and the principal agents of change.... Read more
Introduction -- Assessing Rural Regional Patterns -- Means, Motivators and Markets in Rural Regional Development -- Rural/Urban Dynamics -- Roles of Towns and Cities in the Development of Rural Regions -- Urban/Urban Relations and Rural Regional Development -- Rural/Urban Dynamics in Regional Planning: Examples from Underdeveloped Regions -- Spatial Analysis of Regional Marketing Systems in the Third World -- Rural Regional Services -- Meeting the Need for Services in Developing Rural Regions -- Operational Feasibility Analysis of Public Services in Developing Countries -- Regional Industrialization -- An Approach to Growth Patterns in Regional Industrialization -- The Government Role in Private Investment -- Organizational Factors in Rural Regional Development -- The Negotiated Order approach to Regional Development -- Development Agency/Villager Relations -- Regional Cooperation and Spatial Relations in the Rural Sector
Biography
"Raphael Bar-El is an economist at the Settlement Study Centre and a professor at Ben-Gurion University. Avrom Bendavid-Val is an international consultant in the field of regional development planning; he is currently on assignment as an economist with the Settlement and Resource Systems Analysis Project at Clark University. Gerald J. Karaska is professor of geography and director of the Settlement and Resource Systems Analysis Project at Clark University."
