Download or read book A Geographical Analysis of Rural Markets and Rurban Centres written by Ashok Kumar Sinha and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The society and the economy of India largely operates through rural marketing systems. Rural markets and urban centres represent the cross profile of rural India. India is a country of villages and its real soul lives in her villages with 71% of its total population. Roughly 70% of India's population still draws its succour from agricultural activity and some 45% of its national income still accrues from agricultural sector. Actually agriculture is the stage on which the drama of economic development is enacted and rural marketing thus is intimately bound up with the process of economic development. Rural periodic marketing system are common throughout the less developed countries including India. In the present book the author creditably outlines the cross-section of Indian farmer to reflect country's rural markets and urban centres. Hundreds or even thousands aggregate on a convenient sector for a fraction of a day to exchange their earning an wants to function as a miniature hub of collecting and distributing commodities. The book is an exhaustive study of rural markets and urban centres, whose importance cannot be over emphasised in the rural development and planning in our country. The present book embodies the merit of compliance with the recent trend of studies and research in the discipline of Geography. The spirit of the writing relates in its era and theme coverage the fundamental thrust on aspect s of spatial organisation; the extent and the intensity of interconnection and interdependence among elements of physical and cultural landscape. In this book, Dr Ashok Kumar Sinha presents his pains taking study on field work, original collection of data and assimilation of rural markets an urban centres of the Magadh administrative division of Central Bihar which has a background of ancient history and rich cultural heritage having 91% of its population as rural. His original and methodical interpretation makes it more worthy. An attempt has been made to unroll historical setting of Magadh Division from unknown past to the current century before projecting profile of the project. There are eight meaningful, logical and well balanced chapters, eighty two cartographically sound maps and diagrams, thirty five selected tables, valuable appendices and admirable bibliography which explain geo-economic landscape of the country, various bases of theory and review of hierarchy of rural markets and urban centres, spatio-temporal characteristics, functional and behavioural characteristics of market, analysis of urban centres, micro-geography of sample markets, marketing an rural development. At last in summary and conclusion the author is of the view that marketing and rural development are interlinked without which their projected profiles fail to trace similarity of evolution and development. The zone of research has to be carefully traversed to fathom traders performance. Rural markets not doubt, function as levers of growth. To portray rural markets in their poly-phase, it is essential to balance markets, traders, consumers, goods movement and complexities. Marketing is the biggest problem ever faced by advancing rural industrial sector. A creation of an effective marketing infrastructure is needed to produce products of rural industries. If agriculture function as the heart of economy, rural industries will act as its lungs to balance production of commodities. And their sale on fair price in markets. This book is useful for geographers, sociologists, planners, economists and students of geography and regional studies.
Download or read book The Urban Part of Rural Development written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2003 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rationalizing Rural Area Classifications for the Economic Research Service written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA/ERS) maintains four highly related but distinct geographic classification systems to designate areas by the degree to which they are rural. The original urban-rural code scheme was developed by the ERS in the 1970s. Rural America today is very different from the rural America of 1970 described in the first rural classification report. At that time migration to cities and poverty among the people left behind was a central concern. The more rural a residence, the more likely a person was to live in poverty, and this relationship held true regardless of age or race. Since the 1970s the interstate highway system was completed and broadband was developed. Services have become more consolidated into larger centers. Some of the traditional rural industries, farming and mining, have prospered, and there has been rural amenity-based in-migration. Many major structural and economic changes have occurred during this period. These factors have resulted in a quite different rural economy and society since 1970. In April 2015, the Committee on National Statistics convened a workshop to explore the data, estimation, and policy issues for rationalizing the multiple classifications of rural areas currently in use by the Economic Research Service (ERS). Participants aimed to help ERS make decisions regarding the generation of a county rural-urban scale for public use, taking into consideration the changed social and economic environment. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Download or read book Rural Urban Dynamics written by Jytte Agergaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia. Building on detailed fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Tanzania, Vietnam and Thailand, the authors explore how settlements and livelihoods are being transformed as long-term inhabitants and recent migrants embrace new economic activities many of which are linked to global markets. The book is structured around the concept of ‘frontier’ which is conceptualized as being a dynamic space where the forces of economic, demographic and social change are brought to bear. The study sites include agricultural frontiers (coffee, cocoa, pineapples and fresh fruit), handicraft and manufacturing frontiers, and mining frontiers (gold and diamonds). In all of the cases, global value chain dynamics have played a pivotal role in shaping local livelihoods. Some settlements are developing into new urban centres whilst others are suffering from a boom and bust experience due to the unreliability of export markets. The similarities and differences between the frontier settlements are drawn out by comparing frontiers of similar types and by highlighting the theoretical and policy implications of the findings from all the frontier types. The originality of the book lies in its combination of conceptual clarity, methodological coherence and empirical richness. By combining detailed empirical findings with theoretical insight from debates on livelihoods, global value chains, mobility patterns, settlement dynamics and rural-urban relations, the book sheds new light on these issues within an overall framework of development trajectories in Africa and Asia. Given scholars’ and international agencies’ current interest in the spatial dimensions of economic development, this contribution is particularly timely with its fresh geographical approach to development issues; this book is a pertinent and authoritative read for anyone researching or learning in the field of development.
Download or read book Spatial Organisation of Market Centres written by Ram Swaroop Dixit and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study with reference to Hamirpur District, Uttar Pradesh.
Download or read book The Spatial Geography of Rural Economies written by Robert Orr Whyte and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Describes The Present Design Of The Land As It Has Evolved Through The Operation Of Geological And Geomorphological Processes Under The Influence Of Associated Climatic Factors.
Download or read book Rural Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development written by Armin Kratzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of globalization, digitalization, environmental challenges and the search for sustainable development continue, rural and urban areas around the world become increasingly interconnected and interdependent. This book contributes to understanding the role of this growing interconnectedness from an economic geographical perspective. It does so by theoretically and empirically addressing the various existing linkages, such as food networks, value chains, and regional governance at local, regional, national and international levels. In doing so, contributions extend and contrast existing approaches dealing with urban and rural areas separately by considering the interplay between these two as well as their consequences for sustainability transition pathways. This edited volume adds to the academic and policy debate by bringing together a variety of concepts and themes in order to shift the research and policy agenda away from simple dichotomy to different notions of rural-urban linkages. Offering multidisciplinary insights into rural-urban linkages, the book will be of interest to decision-makers, practitioners and researchers in the fields of economic geography, regional planning, food studies and economics.
Download or read book Rural urban Fringe written by C. S. Yadav and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural urban Marketing Linkages written by J. D. Tracey-White and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2030, 60 percent of the world's population are expected to be living in urban areas. Population growth is not solely in larger metropolitan centres - the mega cities. The numbers of small and intermediate-sized urban centres are also increasing and have an important role as links in the marketing system. This guide provides a simplified aid to understanding the physical implications of marketing linkages, based on a regional planning approach. The guide provides a simple planning methodology and framework that focuses on the issue of linking farmers to market outlets for their produce particularly identifying their marketing infrastructure needs. The users of the guide are likely to be at national, provincial or district levels and could include planners and engineers in ministries and departments of public works and transport, planning and marketing officers in ministries and departments of agriculture, local authority officers in planning, commerce and marketing departments and local authorities, communities, farmer groups and voluntary organizations, concerned to understand marketing constraints and with ensuring that rural producers have better access to markets for their products.
Download or read book Manual for Urban Rural Linkage and Rural Development Analysis written by Pushkar K. Pradhan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Nepal.
Download or read book Geography and Rural Development written by Ram Nandan Prasad Sinha and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to India; symposium papers.
Download or read book The National Geographical Journal of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography of Market Centers and Retail Distribution written by Brian J. L. Berry and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1967 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geography of Rural Change written by Brian Ilbery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. After outlining the main dimensions of rural change, the book progresses from a discussion of theoretical insights into rural restructuring to a consideration of both the extensive use of rural land and the changing nature of rural economy and society. The text places an emphasis on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change, and these are supported by extensive case study evidence drawn from different parts of the developed world. The Geography of Rural Change is written for undergraduates taking courses in human geography, agricultural geography, rural geography, rural sociology, planning and agricultural economics.
Download or read book Towns in a Rural World written by Teresa de Noronha Vaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the strategic position of towns in rural development, this book explores how they act as hotspots for knowledge creation, diffusion for vital business life and innovation, and social networks and community bonds. By doing so, towns - even the smallest - can cope with processes of socio-economic decline and promote a geographically balanced income distribution and sustainable production structure. The contributors to this volume examine how to take advantage of the great potential offered by urban areas in the rural world to favour competitiveness and encourage economic activity. Taking a European perspective, the authors identify the main socio-economic advantages generated by urbanized population settlements that small and medium-sized rural towns can provide. Although much attention is currently focused on the efficient use of scarce natural resources and land, they argue that towns have an increasingly important economic and social role to play in rural areas.
Download or read book Urban Land Markets written by Somik V. Lall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As urbanization progresses at a remarkable pace, policy makers and analysts come to understand and agree on key features that will make this process more efficient and inclusive, leading to gains in the welfare of citizens. Drawing on insights from economic geography and two centuries of experience in developed countries, the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography emphasizes key aspects that are fundamental to ensuring an efficient rural-urban transformation. Critical among these are land, as the most important resource, and well-functioning land markets. Regardless of the stage of urbanization, flexible and forward-looking institu- ons that help the efficient functioning of land markets are the bedrock of succe- ful urbanization strategies. In particular, institutional arrangements for allocating land rights and for managing and regulating land use have significant implica- ons for how cities deliver agglomeration economies and improve the welfare of their residents. Property rights, well-functioning land markets, and the management and servicing of land required to accommodate urban expansion and provide trunk infrastructure are all topics that arise as regions progress from incipient urbani- tion to medium and high density.
Download or read book Rural Settlement Geography written by Sant Bahadur Singh and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
