Overview
- Provides insight in the diversity of marginalization and demarginalization trends
- Examines rural areas around all five continents of the world
- Contributes to the on-going discussions on geographical marginality
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality (PGEO, volume 4)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction
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People
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Transformation Processes
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Towards a Multifunctional Rural Space
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chang-yi David Chang is currently the Chair Professor, Environmental and Development Program, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts. He was the chair of IGU Commission on Islands (2006–2016) and serves as a member of IHDP GLOLAL Change Commission, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include environmental resources conservation and management in marginal regions. He is a member of international editorial advisory board of Geographiska Annaler, series B. He also published the book “Environmental Struggle in Taiwan” with professor J.F. Williams at Michigan State University in 2008. He was a Professor at National Taiwan University, where he taught at the Department of Geography from 1976 to 2010. He was the President of Geographical Society of Taiwan and the chair of IGU National Committee-Taiwan from 1999 to 2003. As a volunteer worker, he has also served as the President of the Taipei Yunhe Community University, which supports adult continuing education and social reform since the year 2000.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges
Book Subtitle: Transformation in Rural Space
Editors: Walter Leimgruber, Chang-yi David Chang
Series Title: Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04393-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04392-6Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04393-3Published: 01 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2367-0002
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning