Urban and rural sustainability governance

by Mitsuo Takada

The rural and urban communities have a distinct structure, function and dynamism, which provide us with livelihood and define our lives through our various daily activities. Circumstances surrounding the rural and urban communities are increasingly changing, such as with the rapid development towards globalization, and consequently the number of challenges needing solutions seems to be ever on the increase. The focus of this book is on the rural and urban environments, and the wide-ranging representations of various players' interacting activities that preserve or destroy these...