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Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages

Planning, Housing and Infrastructure for Smart Villages

by SallyDonovan (Author), RayGreen (Author), HemantaDoloi (Author)

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    Illustrated 2018

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Synopsis

This book provides an overview of the field of rural social economic development through the lens of housing and other infrastructure. It focusses on the most inventive, dynamic practices.

As such, it provides a useful guide to the current state of the art for building and infrastructure professionals and policy makers. It also provides an overview for rural development professionals who are not infrastructure specialists but who need to incorporate infrastructure into their sectoral work-as almost all do. Education planners need to incorporate school buildings, village development NGOs have to plan and build housing or community buildings, health sector professionals need to plan and deliver new clinics or aid posts. This book is an essential guide which can be used to prepare them to carry out these tasks.

The key to the book is the focus on the difference between urban and rural development, and the way in which rural development allows certain innovations and new ideas to emerge, or old ideas to be repurposed, in ways that are not imaginable in the urban context.

Chapters cover a wealth of diverse topics from microfinancing and rural procurement, to governance and planning, to school construction. This book contributes to the state of the art in the smart villages discussion by providing expert knowledge and practical guidelines useful to a variety of built environment professionals.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 236
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 20 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 0815365659
ISBN 13: 9780815365655

Author Bio
Hemanta Doloi is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is the founding director of the Smart Villages Lab (SVL) that focuses on the data-driven research in the area of critical need `rural development' under the auspice of the Smart Villages program. He is the lead investigator of the smart villages project sponsored by the Government of Assam, India, for developing solutions on affordable housing and infrastructure systems, generating new theories for education and governance and empowering rural communities. His research have been centred on conceptual and empirical enquiries the areas of project management, infrastructure planning and policy and construction economics and management and published in a range of high quality journals. Hemanta won the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyor's Infinite value award in teaching and research - recognising the excellence of scholarships impacting wider community in the profession. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Project Management and the editorial review board of the Built Environment Project and Asset Management journal. Dr Ray Green is a Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. His research is multidisciplinary in nature and includes exploration of evidence-based approaches for sustainable land development and conservation. He is the author of Coastal Towns in Transition (2010), co-author of The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs (2005) and co-editor of Towards Low Carbon Cities in China (2015). His research has also been published in a range of landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning and environmental psychology journals. He has been the recipient of several large research grants, including from the Australian Research Council and the Land and Water Australia Research and Development Corporation. He is currently a chief investigator on a project exploring the notion of smart villages . Prior to focusing on research, he spent 12 years in professional land planning and design practice, with projects in the Americas, Asia and Australia. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Dr. Sally Donovan is a research fellow with the Smart Villages Lab, in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, at the University of Melbourne. She has over ten years' experience researching environmental management and environmental policy development. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne she spent six years working with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, developing policy documents for the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission. Her research has focused on a range of environmental management issues including appliance energy efficiency standards, greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, waste management and local air quality management.