1st Edition
Rural Development Assessing Vitality, Vulnerability, and Versatility of Communities with Remote Sensing
1. Introduction
Luc Ampleman and Walter Timo de Vries
Part I: The Rural 3Vs
2. Rural Vulnerability: Rural Communities in a Time of Global Threats
Walter Timo de Vries, Vineet Chaturvedi, Luc Ampleman et al.
3. Identifying and Reinforcing Rural Vitality
Melisa Pesoa, Luc Ampleman, and Walter Timo de Vries
4. Versatility: Technological Resources and Knowledge to the Rescue
Pegah Hashemvand Khiabani, Ewa Grabska, and Walter Timo de Vries
Part II: Rural Transformations: Case Studies from Europe
5. Lessons Learned from Spain: Housing Dynamics in Rural Towns in Catalonia
Melisa Pesoa, Rodrigo d’Avila, and Javier Rocamonde
6. Lessons Learned from Germany: Measuring the Walkability to Public Amenities in the Rural Town of Bayerisch Eisenstein
Vineet Chaturvedi and Walter Timo de Vries
7. Lessons Learned from Poland: Landscape and Built Environment Changes in the Towns of Bodzentyn and Połaniec
Ewa Grabska, Ewa Bubula, and Paulina Pisarczyk
Part III: Rural Transformations: Case Studies from Asia
8. Lessons Learned from Japan: Public Facilities and Local Tourism Analysis using Satellite Data
Yessy Arvelyna, Ryo Michishita, Vineet Chaturvedi et al.
9. Lessons learned from China: Appraising the Rural Land Development Status and Potential with the 3V Indicators for Rural Villages
Jialan Shi and Walter Timo de Vries
10. Lessons Learned from Indonesia: A 3Vs Assessment of the Flood-Affected Urban Village Slums of Pekalongan
Rizqi Abdulharis, Alfita Puspa Handayani, Paulus Bawole et al.
Part IV: A 3V Roadmap
11. Rural Vulnerability, Vitality and Versatility: A Roadmap to Support Communities’ Responses
Luc Ampleman and Walter Timo de Vries
Biography
Dr Luc Ampleman is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is a former governmental advisor for the Ministry of Transport of Québec and a transport planner in Canada’s northernmost region of the Province of Québec. His research interests cover local geopolitics, sustainable mobility in remote areas and transport diplomacy. He is the author of Transport Diplomacy: Planning Narratives and Mobility Cooperation published by Routledge.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Walter Timo de Vries has been Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. His current research interests at TUM include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development and land consolidation. Recent publications include the CRC/Taylor and Francis books Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management: An Asian Context, Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa, Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context and Advances in Responsible Land Administration.
