Smart Villages as the Key for Sustainable and Resilient Rural Spaces: Current Trends and Future Perspective
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 September 2023) | Viewed by 1146
Special Issue Editor
Interests: rural geography; Smart Villages; rural development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart villages are an innovative geographic policy being utilized in contemporary processes of restructuring and sustainable rural change. However, they have unequal development possibilities associated with the characteristics of rural place.
This Special Issue invites contributions from different parts of the world, whether from the Global South or North, with a special vocation for remote or peripheral rural areas and the processes of new resettlement in China. Sectoral applications of smart villages such as health, agriculture, tourism, education are also welcome.
In addition, this Special Issue aims to review the concern of the classic rural community in light of the development of the concept of smart villages: connection–disconnection, new culture–acculturation, territoriality–deterritorialization.
Finally, we aim to reopen the debate on spatial–temporal (de)compression in the context of post-structural, hybrid and fluid geographic academic trends.
In this context, the key topics of this special issue are:
(1) The role of smart village in the process of rural restructuring in China.
(2) The modifications in the daily relations of the indigenous communities in the global South.
(3) Changes in the sense of traditional rural community.
(4) Methodological strategies from the social sciences in the research process of smart phenomenon in remote rural areas.
(5) Communities a distance in the context of smart communities.
(6) New relation place and people in the rural smart. Conceptual issues.
(7) Process of community resistance to smart village.
Dr. Angel Paniagua Mazorra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart village
- smart communities
- rural geography
- rural development
