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Barton, Julia Allison. "Agricultural and Food System Development at the Rural-Urban Interface." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284742419.
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Katiganere, Purushotham Anjali [Verfasser]. "Nutrition transition in the Indian rural-urban interface / Anjali Katiganere Purushotham." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238345573/34.
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Ericson, Peter 1976. "Conservation on the edge : landscape scale conservation at Colorado's urban-rural interface." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17682.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-145).
Landscape scale conservation is an emerging framework that refers to the ability to conceive, plan, finance and manage projects with significant natural conservation value while incorporating the cultural and economic activities of people situated in those landscapes. This framework is examined within the context of shifting conceptions of the mechanisms, scale, purpose and rationale behind land conservation, as well as in consideration of the concurrently evolving thought and practice of sustainable development. The goals of this exercise are twofold. First, drawing upon a literature review and three case studies this thesis seeks to introduce landscape scale conservation as an emerging field of expertise with relevance to issues of community growth and character, economic opportunity and environmental quality in Colorado. Second, this thesis seeks to glean insights, both positive and negative, from three case studies that may in turn lead to policy and/or programmatic recommendations for how landscape scale conservation efforts can achieve their ambitious goals. The central assertion of this thesis is that innovative projects consistent with landscape scale conservation are being undertaken in Colorado at the urban- rural interface. However, significant challenges remain and the cases examined in this thesis reveal limitations of landscape scale conservation and affirm ongoing efforts to address these limitations, and point to complimentary policies - such as growth management - that should be given consideration. The efficacy of these conservation efforts should be of interest to planners, conservationists, government agencies and private citizens who frequently have vested interests in the many environmental, economic and socio-political policies that landscape scale conservation implicates.
by Peter Ericson.
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Corey, Kristen Marie. "The Endangered Species Act, local power and contested issues on the rural-urban interface." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.
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Porter, Matthew R. Porter. "Farm Household Motivations and Diversification Strategies of Organic Farmers at the Rural Urban Interface." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469172871.
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Smith, Leah. ""Food System Makers": Community Organization and Local Food System Development at the Rural-Urban Interface." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253581266.
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Massey, Elijah. "Technical Assistance and Farming at the Rural-Urban Interface: A Study of Farmer Utilization and Related Attitudes." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/779.
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The rural-urban interface (RUI) is a complex landscape impacted by a variety of social and economic processes. Substantial U.S. agricultural production occurs at the RUI despite non-farm development pressure. Notably, at a time when U.S. farming is increasingly dominated by a shrinking number of large scale operations, RUI agricultural production occurs primarily on small and medium farms. Importantly, RUI farms exhibit greater diversity in terms of operator demographics, production type, and marketing channels, than their large-scale counterparts.
A critical resource in the persistence of diverse RUI farms is Technical Assistance (TA). While TA is provided by a number of different institutional actors, the focus here is restricted to the Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture backed Natural Resource Conservation Service and Soil and Water Conservation District programs, and nonprofit sector organizations whose mission is focused on supporting U.S. agriculture. Through an analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of a multi-state study, the goal of this work is twofold. In the first place, this work seeks to assess the utilization of the different sources of TA by farmers operating at the RUI. Subsequently, the work investigates the resulting attitudes farmers hold about the TA they use. As such, this analysis is intended to examine how TA contributes to the persistence of the diverse agriculture operating at the RUI and to explore possible ways in which these critical resources can be further enhanced in order to support RUI farms and farmers.
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Palacios, Leslie Jane. "The Value of Inclusion of the Peri-Urban Interface on Quality of Life for the Urban Population." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35211.
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This paper examines peri-urban space existing separate from the urban fabric and often in between urban and rural landscapes. This is a largely neglected area and often considered by each side as belonging to the other. Contemporary studies identify two sides associated with the rural-urban fringe: the expanding built settlements and ebbing countryside, ignoring significance and the circumstance of the spaces. The peri-urban fringe is a planning opportunity, which provides services beyond simple human habitat or wasteland of undesirable function. Through this study I intend to present the peri-urban interface as an intricate element of the urban infrastructure.
This paper examines a series of case studies, which display peri-urban land-use planning and design through established areas, boundaries, and buffers spanning North America, Western Europe and Australia. Each area is examined to determine scope, program, and ecological and social impacts. The data informs positive and negative impacts within the peri-urban area.
The peri-urban fringe spaces take on many forms and functions. Successful sites enrich the associated urban communities, whereas unsuccessful sites, which often exist in conflict with abutting environments, reduce quality of life and essential ecological processes. The peri-urban interface varies with many scales and circumstances, which affect quality of life for the urban population.
Planning in the PUI is essential in promoting healthy populations and ecologies. Scale, program and accessibility determine how effectiveness of a peri-urban interface.
Through this study, I want to identify significant value of the peri-urban interface as an opportunity and asset for the urban landscape.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Allegretti, Antonio. "Maasai ethnic economy : rethinking Maasai ethnic identity and the 'cash economy' across the rural-urban interface, Tanzania." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/maasai-ethnic-economy-rethinking-maasai-ethnic-identity-and-the-cash-economy-across-the-ruralurban-interface-tanzania(fa6513d8-6688-4a2c-9542-86e94458d96c).html.
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This thesis is a study of ethnicity with specific regard to the pastoral Maasai group of Tanzania, East Africa. I frame the analysis proposed in this study within two sets of anthropological theory: economic anthropology and the literature on African pastoralism, with the former working as the primary theoretical framework to contribute and add knowledge to the latter. The overarching objective of the thesis is to contribute to outline the contemporary state of affairs of the socio-economic position and conditions of the Maasai group in the broader national context of Tanzania, departing from a distinctly spatial investigation across the rural/urban interface. Specifically, I pursue this objective by analysing the local economy of a rural village on the fringes of expanding urban territory. In the thesis I investigate issues that include thrift, exchange, consumption, and the market by making use of these ‘objects’ as analytical devices to explore how Maasai ethnic identity is produced, reproduced, and negotiated across multiple terrains. This study intends to fills the gap that exists within literature on pastoralism and the ‘cash economy’ as regards to these issues and ‘objects’ of analysis. The sequence of the chapters unfolds to show the manifold terrains and domains in which Maasai ethnicity ‘matters’, from everyday actions and practices of consumption to longer-term investments, to conclude eventually with the organization of the livestock market in which Maasai ethnicity contributes to facilitate trading and the building of trust between market actors. In the end, the anthropological enquiry of the ‘cash economy’ intends to enhance the understanding of how forms of ethnic identification, in this case Maasai, are an essential quality and aspect of the contemporary globalised world and that neoliberal market policies, commoditization and urbanization as expressions of globalisation contribute to strengthen rather than lessen their importance.
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Stetler, Kyle Matthew. "Capitalization of environmental amenities and wildfire in private home values of the wildland-urban interface of northwest Montana, USA." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302008-101932/.
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Inwood, Shoshanah Miriam. "Sustaining the family farm at the rural urban interface a comparision [i.e. comparison] of the farm reproduction processes among commodity and alternative food and agricultural enterprises /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1227545514.
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Kumalo, Sibongiseni. "The rural-urban interface : the ambiguous nature of informal settlements, with special reference to the Daggafontein settlement in Gauteng /." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/176/.
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Delgado, Stephen. "Emergence, Control, and Reemergence of Triatoma infestans and Trypanosoma cruzi Across the Urban-Rural Interface in Arequipa, Peru." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/312767.
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In recent decades, transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, by Triatoma infestans and other vector insects has expanded from historically rural areas to urban centers across Latin America. The urbanization of the T. cruzi transmission cycle necessitates new understanding of Chagas disease ecology and epidemiology, as well as new approaches to the surveillance, control, and prevention of vector infestation and parasite transmission. In rural La Joya, Peru, analyses highlight how the complexities of human migration and intermittent intervention influence the prevalence and incidence of Chagas disease. Substantial prevalence of T. cruzi infection was found in the adult population as a result of relatively higher incidence of infection among long-term inhabitants and relatively lower incidence of infection among short-term in-migrants. While an insecticide intervention in 1995 effectively eliminated incidence of infection among children, T. infestans and T. cruzi were rapidly reemerging in the absence of continuing vector control. In Arequipa, Peru, T. infestans had extensively and intensively infested an urban and peri-urban landscape prior to vector control. Environmental and social factors, which may directly or indirectly influence insect biology and behavior, were associated with infestation. Large clusters of infestation and spatial dependence among infested households at short and long distances suggest that T. infestans can disperse by crawling or flying in an urban environment, which may challenge ongoing vector surveillance and control. Reemergence of vector insects, including T. infestans, complicates continuing control of Chagas disease. While relatively rare, reemergence of T. infestans is a present and possibly persistent problem in urban and peri-urban Arequipa. The probability of a reemergence event varied spatially. Events were both clustered and non-clustered, and were spatially dependent at distances up to 1,600 meters. Event-to-event spatial proximity occurred at shorter distances in higher risk areas and longer distances in lower risk areas. Identifiable predictors and patterns of risk offer opportunities for more effective and efficient strategies for vector surveillance and control.
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Li, Yuheng. "Urban-Rural Relations in China : A Study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39474.
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Over three decades of rapid economic growth in China, beginning in 1978, has been accompanied by ever-enlarging urban-rural inequalities in terms of the various aspects of income, welfare, infrastructure, medical treatment, and education (amongst others). These two parts – the urban and the rural - have long been treated separately, without much consideration being given to their mutual linkages (relations). Urban and rural development can, essentially, be interpreted as the deployment of key factors (terms of trade for agricultural products, land requisition, and labor transfer), and the supply of public goods and services (infrastructure, education, insurance, and medical care). Thus, the urban-rural inequalities experienced by China at present can be understood as the consequence of the factor flows (labor, capital, goods, information, and technology, etc.) and agglomeration between these two parts. This thesis aims to investigate urban-rural relations in China in the post-reform era, and their influences on the economic, social, and environmental development in both the urban and the rural areas. The thesis consists of five papers and the cover essay. The first two papers provide a detailed picture of urban-rural relations in China, while the other papers examine the impact of urban-rural relations in terms of population mobility, arable and built land use change, and regional economic inequality in the study area. The findings of the thesis reveal that urban-rural relations in China became gradually intensified in the post-reform era, especially when the central government initiated a shift from a situation of urban bias to comprehensive support for the rural areas. However, the mutual resource flows in the study area still tend to agglomerate in the urban districts, while only reaching the rural peripheries to a limited extent. This is demonstrated in the way in which the urban districts experienced fast and large scale demographic growth and land use change, while slow and small-scale demographic and land use change took place in the peripheries. The urban-rural interface, which is situated between the urban and rural areas, evidences medium-level resource agglomeration. This thesis, through the discussion which it sets out, emphasizes the necessity of exercising both political and market forces in order to achieve balanced urban-rural resource flows in China. Another implication for policy making is to develop more sub-centers at the peri-urban or periphery, making these areas the interface for urban-rural resource linkages.QC 20110909
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Inwood, Shoshanah M. "Sustaining The Famiy Farm At The Rural Urban Interface: A Comparision Of The Farm Reproduction Processes Among Commodity And Alternative Food And Agricultural Enterprises." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1227545514.
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Prudente, Leticia Thurmann. "Interface rural-urbana : contribuições para o planejamento territorial no Brasil : caso do assentamento rural Marapicu na aRegião Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/172092.
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O objetivo do trabalho é analisar a interface rural-urbana, buscando definir um conceito que contemple as múltiplas faces e coexistências de rural e de urbano no território contemporâneo, a partir de diferentes perspectivas de agentes que atuam nesse território e nos processos de planejamento territorial. Como estudo de caso, foi escolhido um dos assentamentos da reforma agrária, denominado Assentamento Marapicu, no município de Nova Iguaçu, situado hoje na borda rural-urbana da Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ). Esse Assentamento foi responsável por reverter a situação de retirada da área rural do plano diretor municipal. Os procedimentos metodológicos priorizaram abordagens interdisciplinar, sócio-espacial e interescalar, voltadas à reflexão teórica sobre a relação ruralurbana no território e aos desafios do planejamento territorial frente aos novos atores sociais do campo, sob o ponto de vista da área do Planejamento Urbano e Regional. A pesquisa de campo descreveu o território em diferentes escalas, destacando os padrões de ocupação e de planejamento territorial e aplicou entrevistas realizadas com agentes-chave (comunidade de assentados e os gestores públicos que trabalham com o planejamento territorial das escalas municipal e metropolitana). A partir de alguns elementos territoriais apontados nas entrevistas, foram criadas categorias de análise da interface rural-urbana e construídos cenários possíveis para a área do Assentamento, de caráter rural, urbano e rural-urbano. Os resultados apontaram a interface rural-urbana como um conceito possível para análise e aplicação no planejamento territorial no Brasil, possibilitando um exercício metodológico que contrapõe a ideia hegemônica de priorizar as questões urbanas como positivas e inevitáveis no território.This work aims to analyze the rural-urban interface, seeking to define a concept that contemplates the multiple faces and coexistences of rural and urban in the contemporary territory, from different perspectives of agents that work in this territory and in the processes of territorial planning. As a case study, was chosen one of the rural settlements of the agrarian reform in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, located today at the rural-urban border of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ). The “Marapicu Settlement” was responsible for reversing the situation of withdrawal from the rural area of the municipal master plan. The methodological procedures prioritized interdisciplinary, socio-spatial and interscalar approaches, focused on the theoretical reflection on the rural-urban relationship in the territory and on the challenges of territorial planning facing the new social actors of the rural area, from the point of view of the Urban and Regional Planning area. The field research described the territory at different scales, highlighting the patterns of occupation and territorial planning and applied interviews with key agents (community of settlers and the public managers who work with the territorial planning of the municipal and metropolitan scales). From some territorial elements pointed out in the interviews, categories of analysis of the rural-urban interface were created and possible scenarios for the settlement area, of rural, urban and rural-urban character were constructed. The results pointed to the rural-urban interface as a possible concept for analysis and application in territorial planning in Brazil, making possible a methodological exercise that contrasts the hegemonic idea of prioritizing urban issues as positive and inevitable in the territory.
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Penney, Greg Peter. "Wildfire suppression – an international analysis of operations, strategy and firefighter safety." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2349.
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Wildfire suppression remains an inherently dangerous yet increasingly frequent task for fire services throughout Australia and the world. Each year firefighters from career and volunteer agencies respond to wildfires that impact the urban interface. When such an event occurs during a period of intense fire behaviour the conditions are often incompatible with life for persons either caught in the open or those seeking refuge in a vehicle. In order to improve firefighter safety and operational effectiveness at the rural urban interface (RUI) during landscape scale wildfires, this dissertation serves to examine critical components of wildfire response, most notably wildfire suppression strategies and tactics applied during a landscape scale wildfire event and the procedures and protective systems utilised in the event of firefighter entrapment and burnover.
The theme of the research is firefighter safety and suppression effectiveness during mega-wildfire response at the rural urban interface (RUI), also known as the wildland urban interface (WUI). Mega-wildfires are those landscape wildfires that overwhelm firefighting resources, typically generate their own localized weather systems, and require campaign style efforts lasting extended durations. Wildfire events including Margaret River (2011), and Yarloop (2016) in Western Australia, the devastating Californian and Greece wildfires (2018) and the unprecedented wildfires throughout eastern Australia in late 2019 / early 2020 meet this category. The RUI is the land where towns and cities exist alongside forest and other vegetation that supports the development of an established headfire with a quasi-steady rate of spread (RoS) across the landscape. In such instances, firefighters are called on to protect vulnerable communities and critical infrastructure from the ember storms, radiant heat and flames that accompany the head fire. In doing so, firefighters face great personal peril. If the incorrect suppression tactics or strategies are applied, or if wildfire behaviour suddenly changes, firefighter entrapment and burnover resulting in significant injury or fatality remains an all too common consequence.
The studies not only quantify the severity of the conditions firefighters encounter when attempting to protect life, property and the environment at the RUI, but also find traditional wildfire suppression strategies and tactics at the RUI need to be reexamined. Whilst the field of wildfire engineering is in its infancy, the studies suggest its development and adoption into wildfire suppression operations has the potential to improve both operational effectiveness and firefighter safety.
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Dias, Elizandra Ferreira. "O estudo da interface rural/urbana e o novo ruralismo no Brasil: do Vale do Paraibuna ao bairro Joazal." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2013. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/4096.
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Este trabalho procurou primeiro realizar um estudo conceitual sobre o conceito de paisagem, uma das mais tradicionais categorias de análise da geografia. Para isso, recorreu a uma análise epistemológica de como este conceito foi utilizado ao longo da história da ciência geográfica, desde o período clássico, até a atualidade. Um destaque especial é dado para a abordagem da escola humanista da geografia, aquela que mais se aprofundou nos estudos geográficos empregando a paisagem como forma de compreender a sociedade constrói, percebe e considera os elementos que compõem o espaço geográfico. Também não foi esquecida a contribuição da escola crítica, pois toda a paisagem natural vai ser transformada pela ação humana, produzindo e reproduzindo novas paisagens. Através do conceito paisagem, foi selecionado um fenômeno de análise bastante tradicional nos estudos geográficos, a transição e inter-relação entre o espaço rural e o espaço urbano, uma das mais perceptíveis transformações paisagísticas da superfície terrestre. Dentro da questão rural/urbana é enfocado o fenômeno do novo ruralismo, ainda pouco estudado no meio geográfico, que analisa o movimento de volta aos valores da sociedade rural pelos habitantes da cidade. Um estudo de caso foi realizado na Zona da Mata Mineira, com destaque para o Vale do Paraibuna e para a localidade rural/urbana do Joazal, onde se procurou identificar as características da região e do lugar nessa interface.
This study sought to first conduct a study on the conceptual landscape concept, one of the traditional categories of analysis of geography. For this, resorted to epistemological analysis of how the concept was used throughout the history of geographical science, from the classical period to the present. A special emphasis is given to addressing the humanistic school of geography, one that deepened in most geographical studies employing the landscape as a way of understanding society constructs, perceives and considers the elements that make up the geographical space. It was also not forgotten the contribution of the critical school, because all the natural landscape will be transformed by human action, producing and reproducing new landscapes. Through the concept landscape, was selected for analysis a phenomenon quite traditional in geographical studies, transition and interrelation between the rural and the urban space, one of the most noticeable changes landscape of the land surface. Issue within the rural / urban is focused on the phenomenon of the new rurality, yet little studied in the geographical environment, analyzing move back to the values of rural society by the inhabitants of the city. A case study was conducted in the Zona da Mata Mining, highlighting the Valley Paraibuna and the location rural / urban Joazal, which sought to identify the characteristics of the region and place this interface.
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Wegmann, Johannes [Verfasser], Oliver [Akademischer Betreuer] Mußhoff, Oliver [Gutachter] Mußhoff, and Meike [Gutachter] Wollni. "Groundwater Use and Management along the Rural-Urban Interface: : Attitudes, Preferences and Decision Making Behavior / Johannes Wegmann ; Gutachter: Oliver Mußhoff, Meike Wollni ; Betreuer: Oliver Mußhoff." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1200209184/34.
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Betta, Alessandro. "Hybrid Fringes. Discussing contemporary (r-)urban fractal territories: Techno-natural tactics for post-urban systems." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/275912.
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Contemporary debate on the future of urban areas is open and far from finding a convergence point among disciplines.
As environmental concerns rise globally and connections between urbanity and ecology are being developed, urban-rural
fringes are still an overlooked territory. The thesis proposes a shift in the focus as traditional frameworks have proven to be inadequate to track land-use changes in these hybrid spaces. Starting from selected key concepts, a compelling narrative on hybrid urban-rural fringes is
proposed. The thesis benefited from the work done within the Interreg Alpine Space project “Los_Dama!”. This allowed to bridge the gap between research and practice and to directly investigate local planning tools in their adoption process to understand the approach to urban-rural fringes and investigate the role of agriculture. The comparison of the tools and direct fieldwork with local stakeholders supported the
understanding of barriers in the implementation of hybrid performative landscapes.
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Betta, Alessandro. "Hybrid Fringes. Discussing contemporary (r-)urban fractal territories: Techno-natural tactics for post-urban systems." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/275912.
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Contemporary debate on the future of urban areas is open and far from finding a convergence point among disciplines.
As environmental concerns rise globally and connections between urbanity and ecology are being developed, urban-rural
fringes are still an overlooked territory. The thesis proposes a shift in the focus as traditional frameworks have proven to be inadequate to track land-use changes in these hybrid spaces. Starting from selected key concepts, a compelling narrative on hybrid urban-rural fringes is
proposed. The thesis benefited from the work done within the Interreg Alpine Space project “Los_Dama!”. This allowed to bridge the gap between research and practice and to directly investigate local planning tools in their adoption process to understand the approach to urban-rural fringes and investigate the role of agriculture. The comparison of the tools and direct fieldwork with local stakeholders supported the
understanding of barriers in the implementation of hybrid performative landscapes.
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Porreca, Lori. "The Influence of Collective Action and Policy in the Development of Local Food Systems." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/713.
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The modern global agrifood system has had significant negative impacts on consumers and producers. This has precipitated the rise of local food systems that are purported to improve the health and livelihoods of consumers and producers. High expectations have led to significant public and private resources dedicated to the development of local food systems. Despite this, there has been little systematic research exploring the social and institutional conditions that facilitate or frustrate local food system development.
Using a comparative case study approach, this study explored the ways local structural conditions, collective action, food system policies, and the political context affect the development of local food systems. Findings suggested truly robust local food system development requires either collective action or public policies and are more likely to exist and be successful depending on the political climate and the balance of power between land use interests in the community.
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Lourenço, Sónia Cristina Valdeira. "A interface rural-urbano e os incêndios florestais em duas paisagens contrastantes de Portugal." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8206.
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Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe Portuguese forest service’s fire management policy has been substantially overhauled in the last few years, and a new emphasis has been put on the wildland-urban interface (WUI). When forest fires break out more frequently next to homes and urban settlements, and become increasingly more dangerous, this constitutes a worrying and important topic, not only in Portugal, but in all Mediterranean countries. The present study consists of mapping, the regulations defined by Decree n. 17/2009, from January 14th, to a map, with detailed representation of secondary networks for fuel-breaks (fuel build-up control) in two contrasting landscapes. The goals of this study were: (i) to transpose the legislation into cartography; (ii) to estimate costs of the creation of the secondary network, based on a very simple assumption of the type of operation to be carried out, (iii) to identify local and regional differences and (iv) to identify local and regional differences and (iv) to compare our mapping with that performed under a Municipal Plan For Forest Protection Against Wildfires. The development of the study took place in two areas, located to the North and Center of Portugal. The results show that the legislation is sufficiently clear to allow for the representation, on a map, of secondary network lanes, in all their representations. They also show that the dimensions of the secondary network, the estimate of costs for the creation of said secondary network and the interventional priority differ, according to the type and landscape
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Wegmann, Johannes. "Groundwater Use and Management along the Rural-Urban Interface:." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-12A7-A.
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Neser, Ashlee. "Speaking to changing contexts : reading Izibongo at the urban-rural interface." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8989.
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In this thesis I argue that recently recorded izibongo must be read as literary texts that
articulate responses to the multiple forces of constraint and possibility at the urban-rural
interface. I argue that when scholars transcribe and translate performance texts they release
them into new contexts of reception, and that the mediation processes involved in this
recontextualisation become an important part of the way in which the texts make meaning
for their new 'audiences'. As such, it is imperative that analysis of print-mediated izibongo
should take into account both the performance text and context as well as the intervention
of literate intermediaries in the creation of a print text. I argue for maintaining a dialectic
between performance textuality, which shapes the text as it is recited to a participating
audience, and the textuality of transcription. We have thus to keep in mind at least two sets
of receivers - those present at, and part of, the construction of the praise poem in
performance, and the literate receiver, reading from a new moment and, often, a different
social and cultural space.
I argue that the scholar in English Studies has an important contribution to
make to the recording and the study of izibongo as literary and performance texts. S/he
must devise ways in which processes of translation and transcription can more adequately
and creatively insist on performance textuality. The English Studies scholar must also read
and write about izibongo as texts that have complex meanings and that speak to their
changing contexts of reception. Such analysis necessitates attention to individual texts and
requires of the critic a willingness to revise her/his learned ways of reading. There is a
need in oral literary studies to challenge print-influenced academic discourses in order to
make these theories more receptive to the actual ways in which many people make sense of
their lives through creative expression. In this thesis I consider the ways in which
contemporary postcolonial and poststructural theory might more adequately listen to what
postcolonial people say about themselves and others. In this, I argue for an academic
approach that privileges cultural interdiscursivity, interdisciplinary co-operation, and an
attitude of respect for the different ways in which forms like izibongo construct meaning.
This thesis thus has a dual focus: it examines how recently recorded praise poems address
the problem of reconstructing identity at the urban-rural interface, while considering the
ways in which they speak to the uncertain identity of the scholar who tries to read them.
Drawn from a variety of sources, the poems comprise both official and popular praises to
suggest not only the variety of the form, but also the ways in which individual and group
identities speak to each other across texts. Given the importance of self-expression at the
heart of the form of izibongo, I argue that scholars in English Studies must resist the
possibility, both in transcription and in criticism, of eliding the individual subjects involved
in mediating identity and textuality. I also suggest that English Studies has a duty to write
the oral back into institutionally defined literary histories by considering how our writing
and ways of reading can better accommodate oral textuality.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2001.
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Tsai, Chieh-Yen, and 蔡杰諺. "Diversity, community structure and morphological patterns of ground-dwelling ant in urban-rural interface." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5185023%22.&searchmode=basic.
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Urban green area provides a living environment for some species which has lost their habitat by human activities. There are two hypotheses 1) ant abundance and species richness would be higher in high-complexed habitats. 2) based on size-grain hypothesis, smaller ants are likely to have an advantage over larger antin more complexed habitats. The study was conducted in two study sites which have obvious urban-rural interface in Taichung city. Totally 5254 ground dwelling ant individuals were collected with 41 morphospecies, by pitfall traps. The biodiversity index did not show continuous gradient variation between urban and forest and also found that the ant species interaction networks will show a consistent pattern of simplication along the urbanization gradient. However, some transects have obviously lower species richness and ant diversity than the others. This trend of inconsistence degree of species interaction appeared to be driven by the dominance of P. megacephala. Our result suggested that the increased proportion of P. megacephala will make other ant species decrease significantly in both Taiping and Tanzi. The large-sized and long-legged ant species with predatory characteristic prefer to live in the forest. In our research, compared with big-sized ants, small-sized ants have advantage of building their nests inside rock and wall crevices in urban area. This result did not support size-grain hypothesis. However, few small-sized cryptic ant species still can be found in the forest. In brief, our study proofed the habitat complexity through morphological traits and composition of ant species.
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LaRocca, Jonathan Vail. "The cook, the farmer, his wife, and her grocer: Plotting a new urban/rural interface." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/20518.
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Plotting a new urban/rural interface provides a design proposal for a new kind of sustainable landscape within built-up areas: urban agriculture. The reintroduction of productive landscapes into the contemporary city changes the appearance of modernday urban conditions towards an unprecedented economic, social, and environmental productiveness. Such landscapes adopt a strategy of systemic intensification which searches out reclaimable (unproductive) space with the existing urban fabric. By growing food within an urban rather than exclusively rural environment, productive landscapes within city boundaries reduce the need for industrialized production, packaging and transportation of foodstuffs from rural areas to the city dwelling consumers.
This project offers an examination of food as a fundamental aspect of a city, the study of how food relates to the economic, political, social and cultural environments of a city, and the study of how food imprints on the built environment. Urban agriculture is a theory that positions food is a primary transforming force capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience. The possibilities of urban agriculture in the United States are presented through a proposal for active farming and food retail projects in Houston as strategies for achieving sustainable growth.
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Martin, Laura Elizabeth. "Urban Residents' Perceptions About The City of Austin's Wildlands." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8382.
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Increasing resettlement in and around Austin, decrease in water discharge rates
and loss of endangered species habitat led to the creation of the City of Austin wildlands.
The study consisted of a mail survey of 1,000 residents living near the City of Austin’s
Water Quality Protection Lands and Balcones Canyonland Preserve for the purpose of
identifying residents’ perceptions and knowledge about the wildlands in order to provide
direction for the City of Austin Wildland Division’s environmental education program.
The two specific objectives were to (1) Understand factors that influence residents’
knowledge, determine if previous participation in an environmental programs increases
their level of knowledge, and to ascertain the effectiveness of different information
outlets for increasing residents knowledge about environmental issues pertaining to the
Edwards Aquifer and City of Austin’s wildlands and (2) Identify factors that influence
residents’ approval or disapproval of land management actions and the alternative
recreation activities on the City of Austin’s wildlands.
For objective one, it was expected that socio-demographic variables (eg: older,
educated, males that live within Austin for a longer period of time) and behavioral
variables (eg: previous involvement in environmental organizations), and acquisition of
prior information about the wildlands would be positively associated with wildland
knowledge. For objective two, it was expected that residents’ management support
would be positively associated with the perception that one of the purposes of the
wildlands is to protect endangered species, respondents’ positive experiences with the
wildlands, pro-environmental behavior, and perceptions that the wildlands increase their
property value. It was also expected that approval of wildland management actions
would be positively associated with the extent to which residents have been negatively affected by wildlife and their level of concern about wildlife impacts on their property.
Also, it was expected that respondents’ approval of vegetation management actions, such
as the use of fire, would be negatively associated with the extent to which residents have
seen smoke on the wildlands and their level of concern about wildfire.
The regression analyses conducted to test the first objective showed positive
associations between local newspaper readership and residents’ knowledge about
environmental issues and the City of Austin’s wildlands. Previous pro-environmental
behavior by residents positively related to their knowledge about environmental issues
pertaining to the wildlands. Furthermore, survey respondents who were older, male, and
had lived in the City of Austin for a longer time were positively associated with
environmental and City of Austin’s wildland knowledge levels. Some strategies for
information dissemination about the wildlands include the use of local newspapers and
homeowner association newsletters. New City of Austin residents who are younger and
live in close proximity to the wildlands are the suggested target audience for initiating a
proposed environmental education program.
The results of regression analyses conducted to address objective two showed
that approval of wildland management actions were positively associated with
knowledge about rangelands and negatively associated with the level of concern about
being negatively impacted by management actions used by the City of Austin. Results
suggest that knowledge about specific environmental benefits associated with the
management actions can improve respondents’ support for management actions such as
the use of prescribed fire and harvesting overpopulation of deer and hogs.
The results of this study should help the City of Austin by providing (1)
information about factors that influence residents’ knowledge and suggested information
dissemination channels (2) descriptive information about respondents’ environmental
knowledge levels, and (3) aid to improve an existing education program for the purpose
of increasing support for management actions that are critical for attaining the objectives
of the WQPL and BCP.
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Manganyi, Tirhane Alinah. "An investigation into key interventions to promote rural-urban interface in Gauteng: a case study of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2240.
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The importance of developing the rural and urban areas in an integrated manner is a fact that can no longer be ignored by not only the proponents of the development planning approach, but by all the governments in the developing world. The long history of separate development has left scars on the planning system in South Africa, and this poses serious challenges to the new democratic state, particularly the local government sphere that has to ensure redress of the previous imbalances and inequalities. Through democratic local governance and active community participation in the development of rural and urban areas, some of the fruit of integrated development planning can be realised.
The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality case study shows that there is an interface between the rural and urban areas. The methodology employed enabled a more comprehensive analysis of the key areas where the rural and urban areas interface as well as the interventions that could foster the interaction between rural and urban areas. Although the development of rural and urban areas should be prioritised, developing the rural areas is perceived to be more urgent due to their history of underdevelopment during the apartheid era. Therefore development initiatives should be guided by the local context as well as the actual needs identified by communities.Development Studies
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Huang, Li-Wei, and 黃立偉. "A Study on Multiple Impacts of University Development in a Rural Urban Interface Area－Using Mimg-Dao University in Southern Chang Hua as An Example." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74020631485397446343.
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"Farming for What, for Whom? Agriculture and Sustainability Governance in Mexico City." Doctoral diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44230.
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abstract: City governments are increasingly incorporating urban and peri-urban agriculture into their policies and programs, a trend seen as advancing sustainability, development, and food security. Urban governance can provide new opportunities for farmers, but it also creates structures to control their activities, lands, and purposes.
This study focused on Mexico City, which is celebrated for its agricultural traditions and policies. The study examined: 1) the functions of urban and peri-urban agriculture that the Government of Mexico City (GMC) manages and prioritizes; 2) how the GMC’s policies have framed farmers, and how that framing affects farmers’ identity and purpose; and 3) how the inclusion of agrarian activities and lands in the city’s climate-change adaptation plan has created opportunities and obstacles for farmers. Data was collected through participant observation of agricultural and conservation events, informal and semi-structured interviews with government and agrarian actors, and analysis of government documents and budgets.
Analysis of policy documents revealed that the GMC manages agriculture as an instrument for achieving urban objectives largely unrelated to food: to conserve the city’s watershed and provide environmental services. Current policies negatively frame peri-urban agriculture as unproductive and a source of environmental contamination, but associate urban agriculture with positive outcomes for development and sustainability. Peri-urban farmers have resisted this framing, asserting that the GMC inadequately supports farmers’ watershed conservation efforts, and lacks understanding of and concern for farmers’ needs and interests. The city’s climate plan implicitly considers farmers to be private providers of public adaptation benefits, but the plan’s programs do not sufficiently address the socioeconomic changes responsible for agriculture’s decline, and therefore may undermine the government’s climate adaptation objectives.
The findings illuminate the challenges for urban governance of agriculture. Farms do not become instruments for urban sustainability, development, and food security simply because the government creates policies for them. Urban governments will be more likely to achieve their goals for agriculture by being transparent about their objectives, honestly evaluating how well those objectives fit with farmers’ needs and interests, cultivating genuine partnerships with farmers, and appropriately compensating farmers for the public benefits they provide.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Sustainability 2017
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Huang, Tzu-cheng, and 黃子珍. "The Spatial Transformation of Urban Expansion in the Urban-Rural Interface：A Case Study of Taichung and Dali." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99152374544805473552.
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