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Free Download Suneel Kumar, "Sustainable Rural Tourism in Himalayan Foothills: Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges: A Study of Himachal Pra"
English | ISBN: 3031400976 | 2023 | 233 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry. It examines the current status and trends of rural tourism in HP, discusses the challenges faced in response to the vulnerability of the Himalayas to global climate change, and evaluates the consequences of rural tourism on the socio-economic structure in HP to sustainably formulate a framework for promoting financial and social inclusion. This framework covers flexible strategies for planning rural tourism development, assesses the role of technology in the tourism industry in achieving the objective of social and financial inclusion, and identifies the factors influencing a tourist’s decision to undertake rural tourism and develop a hierarchical relationship among those factors. The book will be of interest to studentsand researchers of sustainable rural tourism and tourism economics, as well as stakeholders from various sectors aiming to sustainably improve the ecological and economic fragility of the Himalayas due to climate change.

Free Download Randall Arendt, "Rural by Design: Planning for Town and Country Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1611901529 | 2015 | 544 pages | PDF | 299 MB
For America’s suburbs, small cities, and rural areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design.

Free Download Chris J. Dalglish, "Rural Society in the Age of Reason: An Archaeology of the Emergence of Modern Life in the Southern Scottish Highlands"
English | 2003 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0306477726, 0306477254 | PDF | 5,0 mb
My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday life in the past. This is especially true if you spend much time, as I have done, climbing the nearby mountains and walking and driving through the various glens that give access into the Highlands. At the time, I had no real understanding of these remains, simply accepting them as being built and old. After studying archaeology for a few years at the University of Glasgow, itself only a short commute from the area where I grew up, I became acutely aware that I still had no real understanding of these – miliar, yet enigmatic, buildings and fields. This and a growing interest in Scotland’s historical archaeology drove me to take several courses on the subject of rural settlement studies. These courses allowed me to place what I now knew to be houses, barns, mills, shieling (transhumance) settlements, rig-and-furrow cultivation, and other related remains in history. Overwhelmingly, they seemed to date from the period of the last 300 years. I also began to understand how they all worked together as component parts of daily rural life in the past.

Free Download Rural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets (Volume 1) By Lu Yilong
2014 | 136 Pages | ISBN: 1623200822 | PDF | 2 MB
Fresh Perspectives on China’s Rural Developments and Innovative InstitutionsRural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets explores China s rural development path from two angles: institutional innovations and the market. Looking at China’s pace of socio-economic development as a key factor in modernization, author Lu Yilong discusses institutional drawbacks and demands to determine the specific issues of China’s rural market. Using China’s unique Three rurals concept (agriculture, rural areas and farmers) as its foundation, Rural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets offers suggestions on how to stimulate rural socio-economic growth and lead China down a path to future economic success.

Free Download Norman Walzer, "Rural Areas in Transition "
English | ISBN: 1032249005 | 2022 | 300 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.

Free Download Daniel Rothenburg, "Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020 "
English | ISBN: 3031184505 | 2023 | 321 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin – the largest irrigation district in Australia – it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however – a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a ‘bottom-up’ approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides animportant reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change.

Free Download ZENG Haijun, XIA Weifeng, WANG Jinghua, "Approach of ICT in Education for Rural Development: Good Practices from Developing Countries"
English | 2015 | pages: 609 | ISBN: 9351501892, 9353288630 | PDF | 8,1 mb
A comprehensive study on the importance of ICT in rural education

Free Download White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKZGVMVR | 2024 | 11 hours and 2 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
Narrator: Ray Porter

Free Download Paul Chamness Iida, "English Language Education in Rural Contexts: Theory, Research, and Practices "
English | ISBN: 9004441255 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Rural education presents a unique context unlike other settings, and English learning is no exception. Each chapter here offers insight into the unique context of rural schools, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities for teachers and learners of English.

Free Download Andrew Freear, "Rural Studio at Twenty: Designing and Building in Hale County, Alabama"
English | ISBN: 161689153X | 2014 | 288 pages | PDF | 25 MB
For two decades the students of Auburn University’s Rural Studio have designed and built remarkable houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama’s Hale County, one of the poorest in the nation. Our critically acclaimed bestseller Rural Studio (2002) showed how salvaged lumber, bricks, discarded tires, hay-and-waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, carpet tiles, and old license plates were transformed into inexpensive buildings that were also models of sustainable architecture. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, founded by (MacArthur Genius Grant and AIA Gold Medal winner) Samuel Mockbee, and showcases an impressive portfolio of projects. Part monograph, part handbook, and part manifesto, Rural Studio at Twenty is a must-read for any architect, community advocate, professor, or student as a model for engaging place through design.