ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part A|52 pages
Transitions, transformation and rural–urban linkages
chapter 2|19 pages
Agri-food sustainability transitions
chapter 3|15 pages
Agribusiness and rural–urban linkages
chapter 4|17 pages
Rural–urban linkages in sustainability transitions
part B|44 pages
Rural–urban differences
chapter 5|13 pages
Rural–urban differences in online advertisements of second-hand goods
chapter 7|14 pages
What kind of space matters in rural–urban heterogeneity?
part |50 pages
Rural–urban linkages and their impacts
chapter 10|19 pages
The role of rural–urban linkages in local development
part D|59 pages
Governance and rural–urban linkages