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1 online resource (355 pages)
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1st ed.
ISBN:
9781844071876
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9781849775878
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Cover -- The Peri-Urban Interface -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Part 1: The Search for Peri-Urban Resource Sustainability -- 1. Contemporary Perspectives on the Peri-Urban Zones of Cities in Developing Areas: David Simon, Duncan McGregor and Donald Thompson -- Introduction -- Between urban and rural: Distinctiveness or hybridity? -- Beyond the built-up city: The peri-urban interface (PUI) and urban footprints -- Defining the peri-urban -- Overview of the book's contents -- 2. Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies: Transitional Zones and Contrasting Values: Ian Douglas -- Introduction -- The nature and rates of land cover/land-use change in developing area peri-urban zones -- Peri-urban land cover/land-use changes and their origins in processes of migration, poverty and providing basic human needs -- Consequences of land cover/land-use changes as induced by materials flows for shelter, manufacturing, infrastructure and transportation: Accumulation of the urban 'stock' -- Air and water pollution and soil and land contamination in peri-urban areas, and their health and ecosystem impacts -- Impacts of water use and hydrological and aquatic ecosystem transformation, and their consequences -- Ecology and biodiversity of urban areas: Resilience and response, particularly in stressed environments -- Political and institutional factors in peri-urban environmental change -- Conclusions -- 3. Understanding Environmental Change in the Context of Rural-Urban Interactions: Adriana Allen -- Beyond conventional dichotomies -- Bringing the peri-urban interface (PUI) into focus -- Environmental processes of change in the PUI -- Conclusions -- 4. Falling between Stools? Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface: Julio Dávila -- Introduction
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Livelihood constraints for pastoralists in Yabello's PUI -- Conclusions -- 10. Sustainable Livelihoods in the Peri-Urban Interface: Anse La Raye, St Lucia: Michelle Mycoo -- Introduction -- Conflicts and change frontiers in the peri-urban interface (PUI) -- Conclusions -- Part 3: Planning and Development of the Peri-Urban Zone -- 11. The Inevitable Illusiveness of 'Sustainability' in the Peri-Urban Interface: The Case of Harare: Tanya A. S. Bowyer-Bower -- What constitutes the peri-urban interface (PUI)? -- Investigating constraints to achieving sustainability in the PUI -- Conclusions -- 12. Peri-Urban Development in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka: Nimal Dangalle and Anders Närman -- Introduction -- Objective -- Gampaha district: An overview -- Peri-urban development in Gampaha district -- The cost of peri-urban development -- Economic and social problems -- Conclusions -- 13. The National Highway Bypass around Hubli-Dharwad and Its Impact on Peri-Urban Livelihoods: Kiran C. Shindhe -- Introduction -- The Hubli-Dharwad peri-urban interface (PUI) -- The study area -- Survey methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions and policy recommendations -- 14. Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Management in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana: Katherine Gough and Paul Yankson -- Introduction -- Peri-urban Accra -- Conclusions -- 15. Re-evaluating People-Environment Relationships at the Rural-Urban Interface: How Sustainable Is the Peri-Urban Zone in Kano, Northern Nigeria?: Tony Binns and Roy Maconachie -- Introduction -- Exploring the sustainability of Kano's peri-urban zone -- Urban growth and Kano's Close-Settled Zone (CSZ): Sustainability under threat? -- A comparative study along a distance-decay transect -- Competition for land -- Soil infertility -- Soil erosion -- Changes in tree cover -- Water quality and peri-urban pollution -- Conclusions
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Part 4: Strategies for Sustainable Development -- 16. Community-Based Waste Management Strategies: Peri-Urban Interface, Kumasi, Ghana -- Introduction -- Research methodology -- Waste management in peri-urban Kumasi -- Backyard container composting -- Policy implications -- Conclusions -- 17. Measuring Sustainability in Peri-Urban Areas: Case Study of Mexico City: Rocio A. Diaz-Chavez -- Introduction -- Peri-urban areas -- Mexico City -- Developing the sustainability indicators of the peri-urban indicators framework -- Applying indicators to the case study -- Conclusions and final recommendations -- 18. Promoting the Interests of the Poor in the Peri-Urban Interface: The Experience of the Intermediate Technology Dev: Lucy Stevens, Rachel Berger and Michael K. Kinyanjui -- Introduction -- Sand extraction in Nakuru, Kenya -- Peri-urban agriculture in Mavoko, near Nairobi -- Conclusions -- 19. A Co-Management Approach to Sustainable Watershed Utilization: Peri-Urban Kumasi, Ghana:Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson, James Quashie-Sam, Sampson Edusah and Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah -- Introduction: The Kumasi peri-urban interface (PUI) -- Environmental degradation in the Kumasi PUI, with particular reference to water resources -- The Watershed Management Framework (WMF) -- Feedback from communities on WMF activities -- Conclusions -- Part 5: Synthesis -- 20. The Peri-Urban Interface in Developing Areas: The Research Agenda: Duncan McGregor, David Simon and Donald Thompson -- Introduction -- Peri-urban production systems -- Peri-urban planning and development -- Strategies for sustainable development in the peri-urban interface (PUI) -- Conclusions: Directions for research and the dissemination of new knowledge -- Index
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Policies with an explicit spatial focus -- Sectoral policies with no explicit spatial focus -- Conclusions -- Part 2: Production Systems at the Peri-Urban Interface -- 5. The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban Irrigated Vegetable Production around Jos, Nigeria: Frances Harris, Margaret Pasquini, Jasper Dung and Alhaji Adepetu -- Introduction -- Historical context -- Methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- 6. Horticulture and Market Information at the Peri-Urban Interface: Agricultural Marketing in Tanzania: Kenneth Lynch and Nigel Poole -- Introduction -- Results -- Atomic Speed Group (ASG): Case study of a successful production group -- Discussion -- Potential delivery systems for appropriate information -- The future: Enhancing private networks through information and communications technology (ICT) -- Enhancing livelihoods -- 7. Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises for the Landless in the Peri-Urban Interface around Hubli-Dharwad, India: Robert M. Brook, Prakash Bhat and Anil Nitturkar -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion -- 8. Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban Kolkata: Madhumita Mukherjee -- Introduction -- Fish farming in the Kolkata peri-urban wetlands -- Existing aquaculture practices in the East Kolkata Wetlands -- Existing activities under the control of the Department of Fisheries, Government of West Bengal -- A conceptual model for the East Kolkata (waste-fed) Wetlands -- Integrated aquaculture -- Conclusions -- 9. Alternative Strategies in Alternative Spaces: Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface of Yabello, Southern Ethiopia: Edlam Aberra -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework: Examining livelihood sustainability -- Livelihoods in the peri-urban interface (PUI) -- A changing Borana pastoralism -- Capital assets and livelihood strategies of pastoralists in the PUI
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