Purpose: The study sought to identify the most reported relevant drivers of housing deficit in Ghana from empirical studies and to be guided by them to propagate practical micro and macro levels housing strategies that ...

Purpose: Owing to the vital role of rural tourism in the resurgence of rural economies, rural settlements have been encouraged to incorporate it into their local economies. This paper examines the rural settlements around ...

Purpose: One of the main challenges of water resource management in rural areas, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of Iran, is the disconcerted management in governmental executive departments, including the Water ...

Purpose: This study has been conducted with the overall objective of identifying the ecological knowledge of rural women, specifically their knowledge of local pedology, through a gender analysis approach. Methods: ...

Purpose: Rural industrialization is a means of technical change to improve the quality of life for the current generation in rural areas. One of the most important problems in many developing countries is that of unemployment. ...