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The Rural-Urban Interface

An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru

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Editors:
  1. Ellen Hoffmann

    1. Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

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  2. Andreas Buerkert

    1. Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

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  3. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

    1. Agricultiral Policy, Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  4. Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh

    1. Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

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  5. Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj

    1. Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

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  6. Prem José Vazhacharickal

    1. Rural-Urban Center, Univerity of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

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  • Deals with a topic of global relevance (urbanisation and its influence on agriculture) by converging different disciplinary approaches in a common research space (Bengaluru)
  • Presents original, hypothesis-driven research embedded in a comprehensive social-ecological systems framework
  • Is the first collated outcome of an Indo-German research partnership in a pioneering, large-scale collaborative project

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Rural–Urban Interface: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru

      • Ellen Hoffmann, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Andreas Buerkert, K. B. Umesh, P. S. Prasannakumar, Prem José Vazhacharickal
      Pages 3-18

  3. Changing Patterns of Land Use and Agriculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Change and Spatial Urbanisation Indices in the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru Over the Past Three Decades

      • Sheetal Patil, Thanh Thi Nguyen, B. Dhanya, Seema Purushothaman, Ellen Hoffmann
      Pages 21-34

    3. Urbanisation Effects on Agricultural Production Systems Across the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • C. L. Nandini, C. Kavya, G. N. Nagaraja, P. S. Prasannakumar
      Pages 35-43

    4. Changes in Land Use Pattern Vis-a-Vis Urbanisation and Credit Across the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • M. S. Udaykumar, K. B. Umesh, P. S. Srikantha Murthy
      Pages 45-52

    5. Dairy Production in an Urbanising Environment: A Social-Ecological Approach to Understand the Case of Bengaluru

      • Marion Reichenbach, Ana Pinto, Sven König, Raghavendra Bhatta, Eva Schlecht
      Pages 53-59

    6. Capital Formation Across the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru North: An Economic Analysis

      • H. V. Harish Kumar, B. V. Chinnappa Reddy
      Pages 61-67

  4. Resource Use, Efficiencies and Tradeoffs in Crop and Livestock Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Crop Production Under Urbanisation: An Experimental Approach to Understand and Model Agricultural Intensification

      • Andreas Buerkert, Ellen Hoffmann, Renuka Suddapuli Hewage, Sven Goenster-Jordan, Suman Kumar Sourav, Andrea Mock et al.
      Pages 71-83

    3. Effects of Soil Management Practices on Soil Physical Properties and Water Cycle in a Multifactorial Field Experiment

      • Albara Almawazreh, Daniel Uteau, Andreas Buerkert, Ayappa Sathish, Mudalagiriyappa, D. C. Hanumanthappa et al.
      Pages 85-94

    4. Biomass Estimation of Vegetables—Can Remote Sensing Be a Tool for It?

      • Thomas Astor, Michael Wachendorf
      Pages 95-102

    5. Dairy Farms in an Urbanising Environment: Tradeoffs Between Productivity and Animal Welfare

      • Ana Pinto, Tong Yin, Marion Reichenbach, Pradeep Kumar Malik, Eva Schlecht, Sven König
      Pages 103-107

  5. Food Systems as Outcomes and Drivers of Rural-Urban Transitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Crop Diversity, Dietary Diversity, and Nutritional Intake: Evidence on Inter-Linkages Across the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • Veerabhadrappa Bellundagi, K. B. Umesh, B. C. Ashwini, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
      Pages 111-117

    3. Food Security and Factors Influencing Food and Calorie Intake Across the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • B. C. Ashwini, K. B. Umesh, Veerabhadrappa Bellundagi, P. S. Prasannakumar, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
      Pages 119-126

    4. Household and Individual Nutrition in the Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • Anjali Purushotham
      Pages 127-133

    5. Nutritional Status of Women Across Rural–Urban Interface of Bengaluru

      • K. Geetha, D. Vijayalakshmi, Shilpa Yatnatti, Christoph Dittrich, Deepa S. Patil
      Pages 135-141

    6. “Homemade Food is Always Healthy”: The Ambivalence of a Traditionalisation of Diets in Bengaluru

      • Mirka Erler, Neda Yousefian, Christoph Dittrich
      Pages 143-148
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About this book

Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes along with changes in ecosystem functions, new economic opportunities, changes in social organization and individual attitudes and behavior. All of these processes are interlinked and mutually depend on each other. This book attempts to integrate studies from a wide scope of disciplinary perspectives and at different spatial scales under the framework of complex social-ecological systems.

Agriculture is the prime example of a system in which humans interact with their biophysical environment, and the production systems in the rural-urban interface are profoundly affected by urbanisation. Intensification and diversification of agriculture are immediate responses to urban pressures and demands, and are linked as much to resource (over-)use as to commercialisation. Yet, little is known about the spatial patterns of agricultural transformation in areas of urban sprawl.
The focus of the contributions here is explicitly on the interface, in-between the rural and urban systems. It thus differs from the urban-centered perspective of city planners as well as from the rural predominance in most of the agricultural research. In the present volume this focus is implemented by analysing samples along a spatial gradient representing different stages of urbanization. Ongoing time series analyses and a panel study will complement the spatial approach by a temporal dimension.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

    Ellen Hoffmann

  • Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

    Andreas Buerkert

  • Agricultiral Policy, Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

  • Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

    Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh

  • Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

    Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj

  • Rural-Urban Center, Univerity of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, Bengaluru, India

    Prem José Vazhacharickal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Rural-Urban Interface

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Urbanisation Processes Around the Indian Megacity Bengaluru

  • Editors: Ellen Hoffmann, Andreas Buerkert, Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Kotrakere Basegowda Umesh, Prasannakumar Pethandlahalli Shivaraj, Prem José Vazhacharickal

  • Series Title: The Urban Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79972-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79971-7Published: 19 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79974-8Published: 20 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79972-4Published: 18 September 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2365-757X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 203

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Ecosystems, Human Geography, Agriculture, Environmental Geography

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