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Author Hobbes, Marieke

Title Figuring Rural Development : Concepts and cases of land use, sustainability and integrative indicators
Published Amsterdam : Leiden University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series LUP Dissertaties
LUP Dissertaties
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
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
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Subject Rural development -- Planning -- Research
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048512676
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