Equitable rural socioeconomic change : land, climate dynamics, technological innovation /
More and more of global economic wealth and decisionmaking power rests with fewer and fewer people, while acute socioeconomic inequities continue to afflict large rural communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Land inequalities remain a burning question for rural communities. Equitable Rural S...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cape Town, South Africa :
HSRC Press,
2019.
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| Summary: | More and more of global economic wealth and decisionmaking power rests with fewer and fewer people, while acute socioeconomic inequities continue to afflict large rural communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Land inequalities remain a burning question for rural communities. Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change brings together original reflections on the intricacies of economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries, and provides a fresh and authentic perspective. This compelling book revisits dominant but exhausted conceptions of rural livelihoods to expose their analytical flaws and thematic limitations. In this book, the interacting themes of land, climate dynamics and technological innovation are brought into a coherent whole through a reexamination of the lens of unequal ownership, control and use of a society's productive means. Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change is the first multidimensional and integrated analysis of rural socioeconomic change anchored around rising structural polarization in the 21st century. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780796925329 0796925321 |