Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. A Framework for Understanding the Rural ICT Center Challenge -- A Common Objective -- Sustainability, Resilience, and Impact -- The Rural...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- The Scope of This Study -- The Critical Issues regarding Rural Logistics -- Overview of Recommendations -- I: Overview of Rural Logistics in the People's Republic of China -- A....

Business firms have employed strategic alliances with other firms to effectively manage costs, overcome resource and technology constraints, and enhance competitive position. The principle and practice of strategic alliances can be applied as well for productive and beneficial institutional...

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation. Rather, it is part of a social learning process that can enhance the prospects for successful...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- 1 The challenges of human resource development in Indonesia -- 2 The 4IR and the challenges for developing economies -- 3...

In rural Africa and the Middle East, many ecosystems are on the verge of collapse. The interplay of social, ecological, and political-economic forces has compromised the ability of farmers to sustain their precious soil. As a result, farmers, and especially women farmers, face a constant daily...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Bioenergy from Dendromass for the Sustainable Development of Rural Areas: Research Findings from the AgroForNet and BEST Projects of the German 'Sustainable Land Management'...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Natural Environment -- Chapter 2 The Political and Military Environment -- Chapter 3 The Rural Economy -- Chapter 4 The Seigneury -- Chapter 5 Institutions of Local Governance --...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- General -- The Starting Hypothesis -- The Challenges -- 2. Basic concepts -- Interconnection: Operator-to-Operator Payments -- Who Pays the Additional Charges for Asymmetric...

This highly practical and informative book provides unique insights into the essential. features of rural markets in India as well as challenges posed by the rural consumer. Retaining the managerial perspective of the first edition, this second edition. has been thoroughly revised and expanded,...