Sustainable Development and Geographical Space
Subtitle: Issues of Population, Environment, Globalization and Education in Marginal Regions
By: Heikki Jussila
Contributors: Majoral, Roser
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781315182315
Subjects: Sustainable development; Congresses; Regional planning; Regional Geography; Human Geography; Development Geography; Environmental Geography; Environmental Management; Population Geography; Développement durable; Congrès; Aménagement du territoire
Description: "This title was first published in 2002: While world-wide political, sociological and economic processes encourage the marginalization of peripheral areas, the general degradation of the ecosystem increasingly affects marginal populations as they are more likely to use natural resources. The fact that these communities suffer greatly from environmental, economic and social problems also tends to prevent them adopting a sustainable use of these local resources. Using a series of international case studies from both developed and developing countries, this remarkable volume explores issues of sustainable development in marginalized regions of the world. It discusses population development and sustainability, as well as environment and sustainability, from the point of view of regional development. It also examines globalization and the role of education in encouraging a sustainable path of development. A common focus shared by the contributors is that of the human? aspects of development, as well as the concept of sustainability? and its usefulness in geographical and economic research. The volume provides an insightful overview of the issues that touch sustainability in marginal and critical regions."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- Heikki Jussila; title: part PART 1 -- POPULATION AND SUSTAINABILITY --; title: chapter 2 From unity to the present -- spatial aspects of population development in Tuscany seen on maps --; title: chapter 3 Patterns of population sustainability in the US Midlands  -- J. Clark Archer; title: chapter 4 Economic growth, ecological consequences and depopulation in the rural areas of Galicia (Spain) --; title: chapter 5 Local poverty in Finland in 1995  -- Jarmo Rusanen; title: chapter 6 Regional imbalances in Spain at the end of the century  -- Roser Majoral; title: chapter 7 Job development and regional structure -- local examples of growing and declining industries in Northern Finland --; title: chapter 8 Rural development and marginal areas in Slovenia  -- Stanko Pelc; title: part PART 2 -- ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY --; title: chapter 9 Establishing a sustainable conservation policy in northern Saudi Arabia  -- Saudi Arabia Gareth Jones; title: chapter 10 Biosphere reserves -- sustainable development of marginal regions? --; title: chapter 11 Sorghum based farming systems in Botswana -- the challenges of improving rural livelihood in a drought prone environment --; title: chapter 12 Global change and community self-reliance strategies in Southern Africa --; title: chapter 13 Subsistence and marginal lands -- an Alaskan political and geographic issue --; title: chapter 14 Traditional water rights in northern New Mexico  -- Olen Paul Matthews; title: part PART 3 -- GLOBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY --; title: chapter 15 Spatial shifts in production and consumption -- marginality patteras in the new international division of labour --; title: chapter 16 Economic change and transportation deregulation in selected marginal and critical areas of the US Pacific Northwest --; title: chapter 17 Nearer the core -- the fishing sector in one of Europe's marginal --; title: chapter 18 Tourism and sustainable development -- 'snow tourism' in --; title: chapter 19 Rural tourism and new patterns of development in the Portuguese rural space --; title: chapter 20 Highly specialised production as an alternative in economically depressed areas -- the wines of Priorat (Tarragona, Spain) --; title: chapter 21 A tale right out of Hollywood -- set in the desert of Almeira, in Spain?  -- Spain? Hugo Capella-Miternique; title: chapter 22 Globalization and irregular urban growth from a Spanish example --; title: chapter 23 Sustainability, efficiency and economic success of RICA farm 295 typologies in Italy --; title: part PART 4 -- EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT --; title: chapter 24 Higher education as a means to sustainable development in marginal regions --; title: chapter 25 The development and implementation of sustainable education -- northern areas, Pakistan --; title: part PART 5 -- CONCLUSIONS AND SUMMARY --; title: chapter 26 Sustainability as seen from marginal regions -- conclusions and summary