Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Changing Patterns of Land Use and Agriculture
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Resource Use, Efficiencies and Tradeoffs in Crop and Livestock Production
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Food Systems as Outcomes and Drivers of Rural-Urban Transitions
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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
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