The Peri-Urban Interface: A Tale of Two Cities
 Edited by Robert Brook and Julio Dávila
More than half the world's population lives in areas that are classified as urban. In developing countries, a substantial and growing proportion lives in or around metropolitan areas and large cities, including the zone termed the 'peri-urban interface', where their livelihoods depend to some extent on natural resoruces such as land for food, water and fuel, and space for living. The population pressure means that resources in such zones are often over exploited.
Since 1995, the UK Department for International Development through the NRSP, has been funding research into the impact of expalnding cities upon natural resources in the surrounding peri-urban areas. Since 1997, the research focus has encompassed an expicit poverty dimension.
This book describes research conducted so far in the two selected case study city-regions: Kumasi in Ghana and Hubli-Dharwad in India. The knowledge g.enerated is consolidated here, gaps in knowledge identified and implications for livelihoods of peri-urban dwellers described. If you wish to download individual chapters from this publication go to 'Project details' then click on 'publications'
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