A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development written by Terry Marsden and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanization, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.