Changing Frontiers: The Peri Urban Interface Hubli-Dharwad, India

This book published by BPF brings out the uniqueness of the peri urban interface (PUI) with respect to natural resources, livelihoods, and finally, the most important policy highlights. The approach is deliberately multi-disciplinary, covering a large range of issues such as cropping, livelihoods, markets, sewage, livestock, land, and water. The research in the book tries to fill critical gaps in knowledge about the PUI particularly in the areas of (a) Response of farmers in adapting cropping and livestock systems, (b) How marketing systems operate, (c) Ways in which the presence of a large urban area influences the availability of ground water in surrounding villages, (d) Factors influencing natural resource degradation, and (e) How these changes affect household livelihood strategies.