Consolidation of knowledge about the
peri-urban interface
The Peri-urban Interface. A
Tale of Two Cities
This project is the result of four months' work by a group of nine researchers
based at the DPU in London, the University of Wales in Bangor, and the
University of Birmingham in the UK. It was funded by the British Government's
Natural Resources Programme (NRSP) of the Department for International
Development (DFID).
The main aims of the project were to consolidate the considerable knowledge
generated over five years by several research teams about the peri-urban
interface (PUI) of two medium-sized cities: Hubli-Dharwad (India) and
Kumasi (Ghana). The Consolidation Project Team were given the task of
assessing whether this knowledge was adequate for development of new calls
for research, and for identifying any significant knowledge gaps resulting
from a change in focus in DFID's aid programme from that of increasing
productivity towards reducing poverty.
The work comprised the review of over 90 written documents and other
research outputs (e.g. a CD-ROM) emanating from PUI projects funded by
NRSP. To facilitate dissemination, NRSP management requested that the
report be published as an edited book.
The book, entitled The Peri-urban Interface. A Tale of Two Cities,
was co-edited by Robert Brook and Julio D. Davila and published jointly
by the School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University of Wales
and the Development Planning Unit, University College London in 2000 (ISBN
1842200111). All the book chapters may be downloaded as pdf (Acrobat)
files by clicking on the relevant links below.
You may also contact the book editors:
Dr. Robert Brook, School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences, University
of Wales at Bangor. E-mail: r.m.brook@bangor.ac.uk, and
Dr. Julio D. Davila, Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Abbreviations
Introduction
Profiles of Hubli-Dharwad and
Kumasi
Characteristics of major cropping
systems
Livestock
Land, water and waste management
The livelihood strategies of poor
households in the peri-urban interfaces of Hubli-Dharwad and Kumasi
GIS and the peri-urban interface
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