Engaging Peri-Urban Landholders in Natural Resources Management

Engaging landholders in natural resource management (NRM) is a challenge in any landscape; however, it can be inherently more difficult in peri-urban landscapes. This chapter investigates why this is so and proposes practical options for addressing some o

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Basant Maheshwari Vijay P. Singh Bhadranie Thoradeniya Editors

Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

Water Science and Technology Library Volume 72

Editor-in-Chief V.P. Singh, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A. Editorial Advisory Board R. Berndtsson, Lund University, Sweden L.N. Rodrigues, Brasília, Brazil A.K. Sarma, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India M.M. Sherif, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates B. Sivakumar, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Q. Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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Basant Maheshwari • Vijay P. Singh Bhadranie Thoradeniya Editors

Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

Editors Basant Maheshwari School of Science and Health Western Sydney University Penrith, NSW, Australia

Vijay P. Singh Biological and Agricultural Engineering Texas A & M University College Station, TX, USA

Bhadranie Thoradeniya Institute of Technology University of Moratuwa Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

ISSN 0921-092X ISSN 1872-4663 (electronic) Water Science and Technology Library ISBN 978-3-319-28110-0 ISBN 978-3-319-28112-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4

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