The Peri-Urban Interface
Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use
Edited By Duncan McGregor, David Simon and Donald Thompson all at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Paperback
December 2005 •
272 pages •
234 x 156mm •
ISBN 9781844071883
Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and innovative approaches and solutions.
This book, authored by top researchers and practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the impacts of rapid urbanization on livelihoods, poverty and resources in the peri-urban zones in diverse African, Asian, Latin American and Caribbean contexts. Topics include peri-urban resource sustainability, ecosystems and societies and environmental changes in peri-urban zones. Rich case studies cover production systems and livelihoods including the impacts of irrigated vegetable production, horticulture, dairy enterprises, waste-fed fisheries and pastoral livelihoods. Also addressed are planning and development issues in the peri-urban interface including the difficulty in achieving sustainability, conflict and cooperation over resources, and a fresh look at the relationship between people and their environment. The final part of the book presents policies and strategies for promoting and measuring sustainability in peri-urban zones including community-based waste management, the co-management of watersheds and empowerment of the poor.
This book is the most comprehensive examination of the challenges and solutions facing the people and environments of peri-urban zones and is essential reading for all practitioners, students and academics in geography and development.
CONTENTS (Expand Contents)
Part 1 The Search for Peri-Urban Resource Sustainability
Contemporary Perspectives on the Peri-Urban Zones of Cities in Developing Countries
Peri-Urban Ecosystems and Societies: Transitional Zones and Contrasting Values
Understanding Environmental Change in the Context of Rural-Urban Interactions
Falling between Stools? Policies, Strategies and the Peri-Urban Interface
Part 2 Production Systems at the Peri-Urban Interface
The Environmental and Social Impacts of Peri-Urban Irrigated Vegetable Production around Jos, Nigeria
Horticulture and Market Information at the Peri-Urban Interface: Agricultural Marketing in Tanzania
Livelihoods from Dairying Enterprises for the Landless in the Peri-Urban Interface around Hubli-Dharwad, India
Waste-Fed Fisheries in Peri-Urban Kolkata
Alternative Strategies in Alternative Spaces: Livelihoods of Pastoralists in the Peri-Urban Interface of Yabello, Southern Ethiopia
Sustainable Livelihoods in the Peri-Urban Interface: Anse La Raye, St Lucia
Part 3 Planning and Development of the Peri-Urban Zone
The Inevitable Illusiveness of 'Sustainability' in the Peri-Urban Interface: The Case of Harare
Peri-Urban Development in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka
The National Highway Bypass around Hubli-Dharwad and Its Impact on Peri-Urban Livelihoods
Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Management in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana
Re-evaluating People-Environment Relationships at the Rural-Urban Interface: How Sustainable Is the Peri-Urban Zone in Kano, Northern Nigeria?
Part 4 Strategies for Sustainable Development
Community-Based Waste Management Strategies: Peri-Urban Interface, Kumasi, Ghana
Measuring Sustainability in Peri-Urban Areas: Case Study of Mexico City
Promoting the Interests of the Poor in the Peri-Urban Interface:
A Co-Management Approach to Sustainable Watershed Utilization: Peri-Urban Kumasi, Ghana
Part 5 Synthesis
The Peri-Urban Interface in Developing Areas: The Research Agenda
Duncan McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Geography, David Simon is Professor of Development Geography and Donald Thompson is the Geography Department's Skills and IT Training Officer at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.