Rural Planning and Village

Rural Connectivity with Village Operators

South Africa has approximately 26500 primary and secondary schools, of which at least 17000 are in remote rural villages. None of these rural schools have any form of Internet connectivity. The same rural villages may have one health facility for every 20 schools and very few other public or community service centres. This paper presents a model that is being developed and tested in South Afric...

Fuzzy Approach for Rural Energy Resource Planning- A Case of An Indian Village

A fuzzy goal programming approach has been used for rural energy resource allocation for heating and cooking. The detail survey has been conducted to determine the potential of biogas and biomass and to find energy consumption pattern in the four villages of Buldhana district, Maharashtra, India. Four fuzzy objective functions and six constrains based on the local availability are considered in...

The Village Dai and the Rural Health Programme

Anthropology of Rural Tourism (Case of Study: Masoule Village)

Development Strategies for Rural Tourism in Mishkhas Village

Rural tourism is a factor in multidirectional development of rural areas and its most important consequences are population stability, unemployment problem alleviation, and immigration reduction. The present survey was set to investigate the strategies of developing rural tourism in Mishkhas Village in Ilam Province using the SWOT technique. A questionnaire was used as the data gathering instru...