Contemporary studies of marriage around the world note increased emphasis on ‘choice’ and ‘conjugality’. In South Asia, such discussions have largely displaced an earlier focus on ‘dowry’ and its implications for the gendered vulnerability of women. This paper argues that considering...

Multifunctional development of peri-urban agriculture is the central topic of this thesis. Farming structures and agricultural land use in their spatial dimension as well as activities and adaptation behaviour of individual holdings in metropolitan regions of the EU27 were analysed. Results...