The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are econ
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Exp
The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the com
This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Unio
ÔThis book by Westlund and Kobayashi emphasises the fact that the gap between urban and rural areas is no longer relevant today: all places and regions are und