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Rural-urban linkages have become an important focus for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty relief and governance. This volume collects the key contributions in the field, covering the conceptual background, and locating different approaches in their intellectual and historical contexts.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on how rural-urban linkages are being shaped by the intersection of the local and the global, this Handbook illustrates how and where locally specific geographic, socio-economic and political contexts interact with global dynamics. Focussing on how planning for socially and environmentally just urban transitions requires a better understanding of changing rural...