A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development

A Research Agenda for Global Rural Development
Author: Terry Marsden
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788974190

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.

Urban Biodiversity

Urban Biodiversity
Author: Alessandro Ossola
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2017-11-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1315402564

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific discoveries are made on a daily basis. However, researchers often lack time and opportunity to communicate these findings to the community and those in charge of managing, planning and designing for urban biodiversity. On the other hand, urban practitioners frequently ask researchers for more comprehensible information and actionable tools to guide their actions. This book is designed to fill this cultural and communicative gap by discussing a selection of topics related to urban biodiversity, as well as its benefits for people and the urban environment. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of scientifically grounded knowledge vital for current and future practitioners in charge of urban biodiversity management, its conservation and integration into urban planning. Topics covered include pests and invasive species, rewilding habitats, the contribution of a diverse urban agriculture to food production, implications for human well-being, and how to engage the public with urban conservation strategies. For the first time, world-leading researchers from five continents convene to offer a global interdisciplinary perspective on urban biodiversity narrated with a simple but rigorous language. This book synthesizes research at a level suitable for both students and professionals working in nature conservation and urban planning and management.

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism

A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism
Author: Nancy Duxbury
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019
Genre: Creative ability
ISBN: 1788110722

Original and thought-provoking, this book investigates how creative experiences, interactions, and place-specific dynamics and contexts combine to give shape to the expanding field of creative tourism across the globe. Exploring the evolution of research in this field, the authors investigate pathways for future research that advance conceptual questions and pragmatic issues.

A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies

A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies
Author: Dieter K. Müller
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 178643931X

In recent years, tourism geographies have developed into a vibrant field of research at the intersection of geography and tourism studies. The book presents a unique collection of individual research agendas aiming to inspire the pursuit of new avenues of research. Although there have been arguments to apply post-disciplinary perspectives within tourism research, this book highlights the interest and potential of tourism geographers to contribute to a geographical tradition and influence the future content of geography as a discipline.

A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing

A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing
Author: Neil Thin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788976460

This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a ‘wellbeing lens’ for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals.

A Research Agenda for Border Studies

A Research Agenda for Border Studies
Author: James W. Scott
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788972740

This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world. It addresses the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.

A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism

A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism
Author: Maria Gravari-Barbas
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789903521

This timely Research Agenda moves beyond classic approaches that consider the relationship between heritage and tourism either as problematic or as a factor for local development, and instead adopts an understanding of heritage and tourism as two reciprocally supported social phenomena that are co-produced.

A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality

A Research Agenda for Territory and Territoriality
Author: David Storey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788112814

This innovative Research Agenda draws together discussions on the conceptualization of territory and the ways in which territory and territorial practices are intimately bound with issues of power and control. Expert contributors provide a critical assessment of key areas of scholarship on territory and territoriality across a wide range of spatial scales and with examples drawn from the global landscape.