Rural Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Governance write by Lynda Cheshire. This book was released on 2006-12-05. Rural Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically explores the social causes and consequences of emerging governance arrangements. In particular, the book moves beyond questions of empowerment in governance debates to consider how new kinds of power relations arise between the various actors involved.
Transforming Rural Water Governance
Transforming Rural Water Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming Rural Water Governance write by Sarah T Romano. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Transforming Rural Water Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most acute water crises occur in everyday contexts in impoverished rural and urban areas across the Global South. While they rarely make headlines, these crises, characterized by inequitable access to sufficient and clean water, affect over one billion people globally. What is less known, though, is that millions of these same global citizens are at the forefront of responding to the challenges of water privatization, climate change, deforestation, mega-hydraulic projects, and other threats to accessing water as a critical resource. In Transforming Rural Water Governance Sarah T. Romano explains the bottom-up development and political impact of community-based water and sanitation committees (CAPS) in Nicaragua. Romano traces the evolution of CAPS from rural resource management associations into a national political force through grassroots organizing and strategic alliances. Resource management and service provision is inherently political: charging residents fees for service, determining rules for household water shutoffs and reconnections, and negotiating access to water sources with local property owners constitute just a few of the highly political endeavors resource management associations like CAPS undertake as part of their day-to-day work in their communities. Yet, for decades in Nicaragua, this local work did not reflect political activism. In the mid-2000s CAPS’ collective push for social change propelled them onto a national stage and into new roles as they demanded recognition from the government. Romano argues that the transformation of Nicaragua’s CAPS into political actors is a promising example of the pursuit of sustainable and equitable water governance, particularly in Latin America. Transforming Rural Water Governance demonstrates that when activism informs public policy processes, the outcome is more inclusive governance and the potential for greater social and environmental justice.
Territorial Governance
Territorial Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Territorial Governance write by André Torre. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Territorial Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work aims to present the most recent developments regarding territorial governance, placing particular emphasis on rural and periurban areas. The reader will find information on the processes of development of European regions, as well as on the behaviours and strategies adopted by the different actors who live in these territories and contribute to the latter's livelihood. The first part of the book analyses the structural changes in the modes of production that have affected these territories. The second part addresses the questions of methodology and of the structures of governance of local development in rural areas. The last section makes an assessment of the geographical indications as tools of governance of local agrifood chains. The book was written by economists, geographers, land use planners and specialists of the questions of governance and management of rural and periurban areas.
Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China
Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China write by Xuefeng He. This book was released on 2021-02-08. Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on an in-depth investigation of different regions of China's vast countryside, Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China vividly describes rural governance mechanisms against the background of China's rapid urbanization. China’s rural areas vary greatly from region to region with respect to the pace and mode of change. Rural governance in China is decided by how the state transfers resources to villages, and by the linkage between the transfer style and the specific situation of each village. Only when grassroots governance is based on rural democracy (with peasants as the core) can villages become more harmonious.
Rural development
Rural development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural development write by Kristof Van Assche. This book was released on 2023-09-04. Rural development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens and development organizations the conceptual tools to understand how things are organized now, which development path has already been taken, and how things could possibly move in a different direction. Van Assche and Hornidge pay special attention to the different roles of knowledge in rural development, both expert knowledge in various guises and local knowledge. Crafting development strategies requires understanding how new knowledge can fit in and work out in governance. Drawing on experiences in five continents, the authors develop a theoretical framework which elucidates how modes of governance and rural development are inextricably tied. A community is much better placed to choose direction, when it understands these ties.
