The importance of ergonomics issues in rural development is highlighted in this paper.
Some examples are given of the contribution that ergonomics has already made to …

Urban development and transport policies designed to improve the livelihoods of poor
communities need to consider the particular needs of women to be effective. Gender roles …

A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit
agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently …

To date, the majority of studies which consider transport from a social exclusion perspective
have been conducted in the context of the developed world where both income poverty and …

The field of sustainability transitions has recently benefitted from efforts by multiple scholars
at better conceptualizing power and politics, and integrating insights from other fields. This …

Accessibility and mobility are embedded in the development nexus in far-reaching ways.
Field studies of mobility among women and men in rural settlements with poor road access …

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the
world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 …

Within current poverty reduction programmes, focus on the social‐welfare millennium
development goals is widening to embrace a concern with infrastructural investment …

Abstract'Access' is primarily a gendered phenomenon in the developing countries,
pertaining to all the subsets of access, ie access to information, rights, land, money …

Land use change and livelihood systems are often analyzed separately or with one “driving”
the other. This “driver-feedback” relationship has been buttressed by approaches to social …