Figuring rural development [electronic resource] : concepts and cases of land use, sustainability and integrative indicators / door Marieke Hobbes geboren te Zoeterwoude in 1976.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Hobbes, Marieke.

Series:

LUP Dissertaties

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development--Planning--Research.

Rural development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This research with empirical data from the Philippines, Vietnam, India and Laos represents a merger of environmental science and rural development economics. It develops a unique measuring rod of wealth and poverty: Freely Disposable Time, which integrates time and cash flow of households tot quantify concepts of freedom and development capacity.

Contents:

Figuring Rural Development; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of Content; Introduction; Slopes, Markets and Patrons: Explaining Land Use along a Lowland-Upland Gradient in the Philippines; Material Flows in a Social Context: a Vietnamese Case Study Combining the Material Flow Analysis and Action-in-Context Frameworks; Material Flow Accounting of Rural Communities: Principles and Outcomes in South East Asia; Freely Disposable Time: a System for Time and Cash Integrated Livelihood Assessment Abstract; Discussions on Land Use Studies and Development Indicator Design; Conclusions; Summary

SamenvattingCurriculum Vitae

Notes:

Proefshcrift (Ph. D.)--Universiteit Leiden, 2010.

"Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op 4 maart 2010 klokke 13.45 uur."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-23171-9

9786613231710

90-485-1267-0

OCLC:

746747230