This book comprehensively explores the multifaceted issues shaping rural areas today. It thoroughly examines the socio-economic, environmental, and technological challenges and opportunities that rural communities come across.
This book comprehensively explores the multifaceted issues shaping rural areas today. It thoroughly examines the socio-economic, environmental, and technological challenges and opportunities that rural communities come across. It broadly covers from social capital and governance models to health, employment, and cultural sustainability. It offers insights into contemporary challenges and innovative solutions and is crucial for those involved in rural development policy, research, and practice. It provides theoretical frameworks as well as practical case studies, highlighting real-world applications from diverse global contexts. The book helps to understand the ongoing transformation in rural economies and communities, especially through digital innovations, sustainable practices, and entrepreneurship. It is particularly valuable for its multidisciplinary approach as it offers unique perspectives on rural resilience, governance, and sustainable growth, all supported by evidence-based research and case studies.
1. Social Capital Perspective in Rural Development Policy: Analysis on
Indonesia Village Regulatory
2. Digital Innovations for Transforming
Agricultural and Rural Economies: A Review from West Africa
3. Rural
Livelihoods and Unemployment amongst Youth in Botswana
4. A Paradoxical View
of Resilient and Sustainable Growth in Post-Conflict Rural Areas: The Case of
Iraq
5. Understanding Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilient Best
Practices in West African Countries
6. Information and Communication
Technology Enabled Modern Governance Model for Rural Sustainability
Development
7. Cultural Sustainability: A Pathway to Building Resilient Rural
Communities
8. ICT for Rural e-Governance and Development: Legal and Policy
Research on the Deployment of ICTs in Rural e-Governance
9. Health and
Well-Being in Rural Communities
10. Rural India: The Next Frontier of
Economic Development
11. Assessing Health Infrastructure for Providing
Sustainable Healthy Living of Rural Communities in India
12. Impact of Child
Labor on the Health and Well-Being of Children in Rural Communities
13. Is
MGNREGA Capable of Achieving all the SDGs: A Study on Indias Rural
Population
14. Reengineering the Rural Economy by Leveraging the Use of
Financial Services: A Lynchpin
15. K-Shaped Recovery in India: Prosperity for
the Wealthy and Hardship for the Underprivileged, concerning Economic
Development in Rural Areas
16. Promotion of Entrepreneurship in Menstrual
Hygiene: Case Study of Local NGOs in Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand
17.
Revisiting Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilience in Indigenous
Worldview: An Ethnoecological Study in Santal Society
18. Exploring
Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilience through the Lens of
Selected Indian Indigenous Women
19. Rural Resilience Upon Environmental
Sustainability: A Study on Birbhum
20. Fostering Rural Entrepreneurship:
Leveraging Bamboo for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth in India
Pushan Kumar Dutta is a distinguished associate professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at ASETK, Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He earned his PhD in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and his postdoctorate from the Erasmus Mundus Association. His areas of research include data mining, big data, AI, edge computing, federated learning, predictive analytics, earthquake precursor study, computer hardware, sustainability, electronic devices, design thinking, Industry 5.0, machine ethics, and intelligent systems for biomedicine.
Sonal Trivedi is an associate professor at Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. She earned her PhD in management (finance) from the University of Kota, Rajasthan. She has more than 12 years of teaching experience, including being a teaching assistant at S. V. National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surat, India. Her areas of research include blockchain technology, finance, banking, and insurance.
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