Rural development : knowledge & expertise in governance / Kristof Van Assche, Anna-Katharina Hornidge ; photographer, Anastasiya Shtaltovna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Assche, Kristof Van, author.

Hornidge, Anna-Katharina, author.

Contributor:

Shtaltovna, Anastasiya, photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Place of Publication:

Wageningen, Netherlands : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a unique perspective on rural development, by discussing the most influential perspectives and rendering their risks and benefits visible. The authors do not present a silver bullet. Rather, they give students, researchers, community leaders, politicians, concerned citizens and development organizations the conceptual tools to understand how things are organized now, which development path has already been taken, and how things could possibly move in a different direction. Van Assche and Hornidge pay special attention to the different roles of knowledge in rural development, both expert knowledge in various guises and local knowledge. Crafting development strategies requires understanding how new knowledge can fit in and work out in governance. Drawing on experiences in five continents, the authors develop a theoretical framework which elucidates how modes of governance and rural development are inextricably tied. A community is much better placed to choose direction, when it understands these ties.

Contents:

""Acknowledgements""; ""The words of others""; ""Table of contents""; ""List of examples""; ""Example 2.2. Coffee heritage in Ethiopia and the revival of pasts for development ""; ""Example 2.3. Mobility as a factor in development � the case of Uzbekistan.""; ""Example 3.1. Innovation, development and a critique of linear thinking.""; ""Example 3.2. William Easterly�s legends of development.""; ""Example 3.3. Aristotle, democracy and causality.""; ""Example 3.4. World Bank and technocracy.""; ""Example 3.5. Impact and assessment: recurring modernism.""

""Example 3.6. Projects and organizations in development.""""Example 3.7. What type of �development�? For who? And by who? ""; ""Example 3.8. �Living well� � An alternative concept from the Global South""; ""Example 3.9. Singapore�s diversified economy: a path dependency? ""; ""Example 4.1. The legacy of the Millennium Development Goals""; ""Example 4.2. Japan and its iconic countryside.""; ""Example 4.3. Water management, socio-cultural boundaries and practices in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.""; ""Example 4.4. �Knowledge�: development elixir or hegemonic discourse?""

""Example 5.1. Mainstream innovation policies: lagging behind.""""Example 5.2. Belgian Farmers Association: rural development and politics.""; ""Example 5.3. Characteristics of local knowledge sharing in Khorezm, Uzbekistan.""; ""Example 6.1. Land consolidation according to FAO: evolving governance.""; ""Example 6.2. Soviet countrysides and the planning/adaptation balance.""; ""Example 7.1. Minnesota Design Team: rural development �light�.""; ""Example 7.2. Community planning for climate change adaptation in West-Timor Indonesia.""

""Example 7.3. Conservation design for rural and urban places.""""Example 8.1. Water rights, American evolution and general options.""; ""Example 8.2. Coffee in Colombia: institutional transformations.""; ""Example 8.3. Good governance and development according to Machiavelli.""; ""Example 9.1. Foraging and sustainability.""; ""Example 9.2. Certification as private governance?""; ""Example 9.3. Bulb nature and the productive nature of conflict.""; ""Example 9.4. Mining and land use conflicts: knowledge and power.""; ""Example 9.5. Sustainable communities and vanishing towns.""

""Example 10.1. �Follow the innovation�: a participatory innovation development approach.""""Example 10.2. �Innovation� and �innovation systems�.""; ""Example 10.3. Singapore and UNESCO�s evolving policy approaches to creative industries""; ""Example 10.4. Knowledge hubs along the Straits of Malacca.""; ""Example 10.5. �Knowledge for development�.""; ""Example 11.1. Terroir and local products.""; ""Example 11.2. Place branding as policy integration.""; ""Example 12.1. Apples, old and new, in new lifestyles.""

""Example 12.2. Wageningen University and rural development (at home and abroad).""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 18, 2015).

ISBN:

90-8686-812-6