Rural–Urban ‘Symbiosis’, community self-help, and the new planning mandate: Evidence from Southeast Nigeria

Victor, Onyebueke Udemezue; Hope, Ezeadichie Nkeiru

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2010.11.005

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“…Although urban-rural physical boundaries can be defined, governance systems, information, tradition, culture, and family ties are blurred and overlap in some cases. Cultural, traditional, and family ties can influence strong urban-rural linkages, which can facilitate sustainable social and economic development [37]. On the other hand, social relationships can be diluted by urban-rural linkages if social ties and cultural values are not preserved [37].…”

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“…Cultural, traditional, and family ties can influence strong urban-rural linkages, which can facilitate sustainable social and economic development [37]. On the other hand, social relationships can be diluted by urban-rural linkages if social ties and cultural values are not preserved [37]. Social and political jurisdictional boundaries do not apply to the new commons (ecosystems services) [38], as they apply in both urban and rural areas.…”

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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

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Urban-rural linkages are an integral part of fostering development in both urban and rural communities. However, the focus on development tends to have an urban bias toward Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an increase in urbanization. Ghana is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in SSA. This paper sought to identify the challenges of urban-rural linkages, their corresponding solutions, and contributions to Agenda 2030 that are context-specific to Ghana through a stepwise solution scanning technique. In step 1, the study applied a scoping process to identify the urban-rural challenges. In step 2, a solution for the identified urban-rural challenges in step 1 was co-designed. In step 3, each identified solution was assessed based on its potential to contribute to all three pillars of sustainability by ranking and prioritization. In step 4, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) interlinkages of the top five prioritized potential solutions were analyzed. The identified challenges were (1) inequality and gender gaps, (2) poor and lack of basic and economic infrastructures, (3) the limited effectiveness of decentralization, and (4) food and nutrition security dynamics. The prioritized potential solutions were gender inclusiveness, investment in infrastructures, sustainable agricultural systems, effective decentralization, and financial inclusion. This study recommends maximizing the synergies and minimizing the trade-offs between the SDGs of the potential solutions identified.

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“…Based on pattern recognition, mechanism testing and strategy investigation, we were able to discover the characteristics of social and economic development transformation, through which we could provide reference for the transformation and upgrading of the regional development model. The current study is mainly focused on five issues: the rural-urban migration structure and process (Smith and Higley, 2012;Victor and Hope, 2011;Tacoli and Mabala, 2010), the evolution of the urban-rural spatial structure and urban-rural relationship (Henderson and Wang, 2005;Liu et al, 2011;Li, 2012), the industrial transformation and structural upgrading in urban and rural areas (Sullivan and Lovell, 2006;McGee, 2008), the innovation of the rural development model and urban-rural transformation (Esparcia, 2014), and urban-rural ecological and environmental evolution (Eaton et al, 2007;Beardsley et al, 2009;Gong et al, 2012;Liu et al, 2014). In contrast, Chinese scholars have paid more attention to the relationship and development change between urban and rural areas.…”

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Process and cause of urban-rural development transformation in the Bohai Rim Region, China

Liu

2014

J. Geogr. Sci.

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China's reform and opening-up policy has brought the country a great development opportunity. The high-speed growth of the economy not only led China to a period of industrialization, urbanization, informatization and agricultural modernization, but also exacerbated the situation of the urban-rural dual structure. Based on the review of current studies, we first used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to evaluate the urban-rural development and transformation level by population transformation index, land transformation index, industrial transformation index and social transformation index between 1996 and 2012 around the Bohai Rim Region. Then, based on the results of each index, we used the exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) method to investigate the spatial autocorrelation of the change in the urban-rural development transformation index during the 16-year period using Global Moran's I index and Local Moran's I index. Finally, we investigated the mechanism of change of the urban-rural development transformation index at county level, summarizing five main factors: (1) the radiation from the surrounding big cities, (2) the acceleration of the urbanization process, (3) the upgrading of the industrial structure, (4) the publishing and implementation of a macro development strategy and regional policy, and (5) natural factors such as topology.

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“…Central villages, township and other villages interacted closely, forming a new integrated development relationship. Based on the theory of symbiosis [63][64][65], this paper established a theoretical model of town-village symbiotic system containing three conceptual elements: town and village symbiotic unit, factor flows, symbiotic environment (Fig 6). Thereinto, villages and township were the basic units of production and cooperation in the symbiotic system.…”

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Operating characteristics of the factor flow networks in rural areas: A case study of a typical industrial town in China

Zhi

2023

PLoS ONE

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The networks of factor flows in rural areas are the main support for rural revitalization, which has become one of the research trends in rural geography. Taking a typical industrial town in China as an example, the study explored the operating characteristics of rural factor flow networks and the relations of multi-factor flows based on the social survey method and fine-grained flows data. Results showed that population flows, capital flows and policy flows increased significantly in rural areas. Thereinto, population flows, especially labor flows, mainly ran into the townships and industrial cluster villages, so did capital inflows and outflows, while policy flows ran around the township. The villages with dense population and capital flows formed the "central villages", which had exceeded the township in the two flow networks. Policy flows and capital flows played a guiding role in population flows, so did the policy flows on the capital flows. Meanwhile, the population flows and the capital flows could reinforce each other. In conclusion, a multi-center structure network with the separation of economic center and administrative center had been formed in rural areas. And there was a close interaction between these factor flows. Furthermore, the theoretical model of town-village symbiotic network was constructed.

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Rural–Urban ‘Symbiosis’, community self-help, and the new planning mandate: Evidence from Southeast Nigeria

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

Process and cause of urban-rural development transformation in the Bohai Rim Region, China

Operating characteristics of the factor flow networks in rural areas: A case study of a typical industrial town in China

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