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Abstract
Health and Inequality presents a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. The text has three principal themes: to discuss the geography of health inequality and to examine strategies for reducing disadvantage; to review and develop the theoretical basis for a geographical analysis of these problems - the discussion will illustrate how theoretical developments can help in the design and evaluation of intervention; and to explain how different methodologies in the geography of health, both quantitative and qualitative, can be applied in research - demonstrating the complementarity between them. By relating theoretical arguments to specific landscapes, Health and Inequality will be a key resource for understanding the articulation between theory and empirical methods for understanding health variation in urban areas.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | |||
| Notes on Contributors | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| 1 Rice cropping practices in Nepal: indigenous adaptation to adverse and difficult environments 6 | |||
| 2 Farmer-based experimentation with velvetbean: innovation within tradition 32 | |||
| 3 Side-stepped by the Green Revolution: farmers' traditional rice cultivars in the uplands and rainfed lowlands 50 | |||
| 4 Environmental dynamics, adaptation and experimentation in indigenous Sudanese water harvesting 64 | |||
| 5 The indigenization of exotic inputs by small-scale farmers on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria 80 | |||
| 6 Farmer management of rootcrop genetic diversity in Southern Philippines 92 | |||
| 7 Farmer experimentation in a Venezuelan Andean group 113 | |||
| 8 Indian farmers opt for ecological profits 125 | |||
| 9 Indigenous agricultural experimentation in home gardens of South India: conserving biological diversity and achieving nutritional security 134 | |||
| 10 Living local knowledge for sustainable development 147 | |||
| 11 Varietal diversity and farmers' knowledge: the case of the sweet potato in Irian Jaya 158 | |||
| 12 The indigenous concept of experimentation among Malian farmers 163 | |||
| 13 Umnotho Wethu Amadobo: the clash between indigenous agricultural knowledge and a Western conservation ethic in Maputaland, South Africa 172 | |||
| 14 Local-level experimentation with social organization and management of self-reliant agricultural development: the case of gender in Ara, Nigeria 184 | |||
| 15 Chinese farmers' initiatives in technology development and dissemination: a case of a farmer association for rural technology development 192 | |||
| Notes 199 | |||
| References 202 |