Rural Futures Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainable Development

1. Social Capital Perspective in Rural Development Policy: Analysis on Indonesia Village Regulatory

Saraswati Soegiharto, Sri Najiyati, Danarti Danarti, Rukmini Nugroho Dewi, Habibullah Habibullah, Sugiyanto Sugiyanto, Ririn Purba, Tedi Gunawan, Eko Wahyono, Rudy G. Erwinsyah, and Atmaezer Hariara Simanjuntak

2. Digital Innovations for Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies: A Review from West Africa

Sarah Enwa, Loveth Chiduma Ode Omenka, Olanrewaju O. Omosehin, Eric Jr. Bomdzele, Joe E. Assoua, Solomon O. Okunade, Samuel O. Binuomote, Hauwah K. K. Abdul Kareem, Evans Osabuohien, and Uduak S. Akpan

3. Rural Livelihoods and Unemployment amongst Youth in Botswana

Constance Gunhidzirai, Poloko N. Ntshwarang, and Isaac Chinyoka

4. A Paradoxical View of Resilient and Sustainable Growth in Post-Conflict Rural Areas: The Case of Iraq

Mohamad Fadl Haraké and Jean Michel Viola

5. Understanding Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilient Best Practices in West African Countries

Oluwakemi Oduntan, Kehinde Elijah Owolabi, Oluwaseun Joshua Makanjuola, Adewale Isaac Olutumise, Dayo Temitope Oguntuase, and Lotanna E. Emediegwu

6. Information and Communication Technology Enabled Modern Governance Model for Rural Sustainability Development

Pawan Kumar, Rajiv Kumar, Kamaljit Singh, and Vikram Singh

7. Cultural Sustainability: A Pathway to Building Resilient Rural Communities

Julie Vardhan, Mona Ratnesh, Naboshree Bhattacharya, and Ebikinei Stanley Eguruze

8. ICT for Rural e-Governance and Development: Legal and Policy Research on the Deployment of ICTs in Rural e-Governance

Bijoy Sharma, Monisha B., and Aswathy G. Krishnan

9. Health and Well-Being in Rural Communities

Nigar K. Mujawar, Rekha L. Nirmale, Vidyanand S. Khandagale, and Indra Odina

10. Rural India: The Next Frontier of Economic Development

Mehak Rawal, Onam Singh, and Srishti Rawal

11. Assessing Health Infrastructure for Providing Sustainable Healthy Living of Rural Communities in India

Sanjay Kumar Mangla, Rajiv Divekar, Pravin Kumar, Nandita Mishra, Shehnaz Lockhat, and Ritika Paul

12. Impact of Child Labor on the Health and Well-Being of Children in Rural Communities

Priyadarshini Purohit and Sanya Khanna

13. Is MGNREGA Capable of Achieving all the SDGs: A Study on India’s Rural Population

Priyanka and Narayanage Jayantha Dewasiri

14. Reengineering the Rural Economy by Leveraging the Use of Financial Services: A Lynchpin

Sunita Kumar, Sukanya R, Nabanita Ghosh, and D. John Benedict

15. K-Shaped Recovery in India: Prosperity for the Wealthy and Hardship for the Underprivileged, concerning Economic Development in Rural Areas

Ronismita Mishra and Shiv Sankar Das

16. Promotion of Entrepreneurship in Menstrual Hygiene: Case Study of Local NGOs in Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand

Lakshita Pant and Shrinkhala Upadhyaya

17. Revisiting Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilience in Indigenous Worldview: An Ethnoecological Study in Santal Society

Arpita Raj, Arjita Raj, and Abhishek Chakravorty

18. Exploring Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilience through the Lens of Selected Indian Indigenous Women

Bholanath Das and Sahel Md. Delabul Hossain

19. Rural Resilience Upon Environmental Sustainability: A Study on Birbhum

Bidisha Roy and Birendra Kishore Roy

20. Fostering Rural Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Bamboo for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth in India

Shiva Sharma and Pratibha Sharma

Biography

Pushan Kumar Dutta is a distinguished associate professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at ASETK, Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He earned his PhD in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and his postdoctorate from the Erasmus Mundus Association. His areas of research include data mining, big data, AI, edge computing, federated learning, predictive analytics, earthquake precursor study, computer hardware, sustainability, electronic devices, design thinking, Industry 5.0, machine ethics, and intelligent systems for biomedicine.

Sonal Trivedi is an associate professor at Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. She earned her PhD in management (finance) from the University of Kota, Rajasthan. She has more than 12 years of teaching experience, including being a teaching assistant at S. V. National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surat, India. Her areas of research include blockchain technology, finance, banking, and insurance.