Risk-Informed Sustainable Development in the Rural Tropics

Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and...

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Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to achieve a sustainable rural development are often thwarted by floods, drought, heat waves, and hurricanes, which local communities are not very prepared to tackle. Agricultural practices and local planning are still not very risk-informed. These deficiencies are particularly acute in tropical regions, where many Least Developed Countries are located and where there is, however, great potential for rural development. This Special Issue contains 22 studies on best practices for risk awareness; on local risk reduction; on several cases of soil depletion, water pollution, and sustainable access to safe water; and on agronomy, earth sciences, ecology, economy, environmental engineering, geomatics, materials science, and spatial and regional planning in 12 tropical countries.
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water for food security
building consolidation
extreme precipitations
flood exposure
satellite remote sensing
settlement dynamics
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real-time monitoring
water quality
rural area
scant data
nitrate contamination
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flood
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indigenous farmers
multinational corporations
systems thinking
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sub-Saharan Africa
drought
rainfall regime
soil biogeochemistry
natural disasters
flooding
flood vulnerability
inequality
risk premium
expected annual damages
certainty equivalent annual damages
equity weight expected annual damages
equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage
soil erosion
Great Rift Valley Lakes
ASAL
desertification
groundwater resources
fluoride
main Ethiopian Rift Valley
developing countries
welfare
panel probit model
adoption
propensity score matching
water crisis in Africa
water collection and retention systems
sand dam
migration
risk communication
volcanic hazards
social risk perception
resilience
demonstrator
scenario
multi-risk analysis
climate-smart agriculture
socio-ecological systems
extension
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milpa
food security
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desalination system
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