This book aims to foster a dialogue within and across rural communities, practitioners, academics, and decision-makers for interdisciplinary collaborations and informed actions. It offers knowledge about challenges faced by rural communities around the world to assess their Vulnerabilities, Vitality assets, and Versatility to react in a time of global threats and discusses the opportunities and the limits of new technologies, such as remote sensing, to assess these rural conditions. The case studies and examples included discuss how rural communities cope with emergencies and unexpected changes from outside and how to collaborate for achieving better preparedness.
Features
- Provides a practical guide with resources and applications for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers exploring rural development challenges worldwide
- Introduces the emergent concept of “Vitality, Vulnerability and Versatility” to better grasp the challenges of ural communities
- Offers a valuable set of tools to assess rural vulnerability and vitality and focuses on long-term rural transformations that are meaningful for various communities
- Integrates remote sensing technology and explores its opportunities and limits when used in different environments
- Includes real-life case studies from different countries to illustrate how rural conditions assessment can be performed
- Introduces a visual roadmap to facilitate and compare rural assessment between and within rural communities
This book is an insightful resource for practitioners, researchers, graduate, and senior undergraduate students in the fields of urban/regional planning, land management, geography, environment studies, and remote sensing, as well as agencies and NGO institutions working with rural communities.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. Part I: The Rual 3V's. 2. Rural Vulnerability: Rural Communities in a Time of Global Threats. 3. Identifying and Reinforcing Rural Vitality. 4. Versatility: Technological Resources and Knowledge to the Rescue. Part II: Rural Transformations: Case Studies from Europe. 5. Lessons Learned from Spain: Housing Dynamics in Rural Towns in Catalonia. 6. Lessons learned from Germany: Measuring the Walkability to Public Amenities in the Rural Town of Bayerisch Eisenstein. 7. Lessons learned from Poland: Landscape and Built Environment Changes in the Towns of Bodzentyn and Połaniec. Part III: Rural Transformation: Case Studies from Asia. 8. Lessons Learned from Japan: Public Facilities and Local Tourism Analysis using Satellite Data. 9. Lessons Learned from China: Appraising the Rural Land Development Status and Potential with the 3V Indicators for Rural Villages. 10. Lessons Learned from Indonesia: A 3Vs Assessment of the Flood-Affected Urban Village Slums of Pekalongan. Part IV: A 3V Roadmap. 11. Rural Vulnerability, Vitality and Versatility: A Roadmap to Support Communities’ Responses.
About the Author :
Dr Luc Ampleman is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is a former governmental advisor for the Ministry of Transport of Québec and a transport planner in Canada’s northernmost region of the Province of Québec. His research interests cover local geopolitics, sustainable mobility in remote areas and transport diplomacy. He is the author of Transport Diplomacy: Planning Narratives and Mobility Cooperation published by Routledge.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Walter Timo de Vries has been Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. His current research interests at TUM include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development and land consolidation. Recent publications include the CRC/Taylor and Francis books Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management: An Asian Context, Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa, Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context and Advances in Responsible Land Administration.
