Chapter 1: What is rural development? Chapter 2: Understanding Rural Development: Concepts and Theories Chapter 3: Theories and Approaches to Rural Economic Change Chapter 4: Rural Livelihoods: trajectories, diversification and outcomes Chapter 5: Natural Resources and Rural Development Chapter 6: Support for rural development: institutions and services Chapter 7: Policy, Planning and Rural Development Chapter 8: Causes and Processes of Change and their consequences Chapter 9: Engaging with Development References Index
Biography
Adam Pain has been an academic in the UK and since 2006 part time at the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences. He has also worked in programme management, as a programme evaluator and as policy advisor. For much of the last thirty years his interests have been focused on the Himalayan region in Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan and on their rural mountain economies.
Kjell Hansen is associate professor in European Ethnology and a senior lecturer in rural development at the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences. His research has focused on questions about the relationships between state, policies and local communities and cultures.
"Specifically written so as to be immediately accessible for undergraduates, while at the same time providing the kind of deeper presentation useful to master students and Ph.D.'s., every individual chapter of "Rural Development" is linked to discussion questions as well as suggested further readings and useful websites. While unreservedly recommended for college and university library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject"
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