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Authors. . . . 9
Introduction. . . . 1. How to understand sustainable development in peripheral rural regions? . . 17
Mirosława Czerny, Andrzej Czerny
Part A
Questions of rural sustainability
2. Recent changes of ways of life and livelihood in the Spanish rural mountain areas . . . . 31 Carmen Delgado Vin˜as
3. Maynas, an unsustainable territory . . . . 47 Nicole Bernex
4. Identification of the relations between socio-geographic space and sustainable development. Case study: Male¨sia e Madhe in Albania . . . . 67 Sokol Axhemi, Resul Hamiti
5. Agroecological sites as expressions of territorial identities and as perspectives to the traditional marginal populations development . . . . 75 Maria Geralda de Almeida
6. Sustainable development and marginal rural areas in Mexico . . . . 93 Guillermo Torres Carral
7. Generating sustainable development through the alternative treatment of water for human consumption . . . . 107 Jhoan Sebastian Jaramillo Peralta, Hildebrando Ramı´rez Arcila
Part B
Rural sustainable tourism
8. The family-based agroecological production: a space for sustainable development of rural tourism . . . . 125 Cleomar Antonio Zocholini, Eurico de Oliveira Santos
9. Creative tourism: perspectives and challenges for development of rural areas . . . . 137 Mary Sandra Guerra Ashton, Eurico de Oliveira Santos
10. Tourism and gastronomy: opportunities to rural communities .. . . . 153 Roslaine Kovalczuk de Oliveira Garcia, Alexandra Marcela Zottis,
Daniel Vicente Bohno
11. Cultural tourism and Nepal . . . . 167 Kamal Maiya Pradhan
12. The use of biodiversity in the Brazilian tourism promotion: analysis of state tourism websites . . . . 181 Rosane Maria Lanzer, Leonardo Reichert, Leidh Jeane Sampietro Pinto,
Denise de Souza
13. Problems of the development of tourism in the rural area of the region of Caminhos de Pedra: Bento Goncalves/RS, Brazil . . . . 195 Camille Bonotto, Eurico de Oliveira Santos
Part C
Social, cultural and natural environment
14. A natural environment and cultural landscape approach to community rural heritage preservation . . . . 209 Alejandro Cabeza
15. Environment and sustainability in Sierra de Piura, Peru . . . . 223 Wojciech Doroszewicz
16. San Gabriel de Azteca cemetery as heritage to save people’s identity . . . . . 237 Rocı´o Lo´pez de Juambelz
17. Problems of sustainable rural development in the highlands of Piura, Peru . . . . 259 Ana Sabogal Dunin Borkowska
18. Spatiotemporal patterns of agricultural and settlement frontier in the tropical Andes of Northern Ecuador: a socio-ecological perspective . . . . 265 Maria Fernanda Lo´pez Sandoval, Felipe Valdez
19. Turnover in rural hospitality: the case of family rural properties in the southern half of Rio Grande do Sul . . . . 281 Paula Carina Mayer da Silva, Ana Roberta Trentin de Bittencourt, Eurico de Oliveira Santos, Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes
20. On the fringe: tracking and evaluating changes in land use in the areas surrounding three parks in Spain and Portugal. . . . 297 Marı´a-Jose´ Prados, Marı´a A´ ngeles Barral, Claudia Hurtado, Julia Lourenc¸o
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Part D
Urban periphery from sustainable perspective
21. Sustainable development in 4 fraccionamientos from Fomento Metropolitano Monterrey (Fomerrey), Nuevo Leo´n, Mexico, 2009–2014 . . . . 317 Diana R. Villarreal Gonza´lez, Johny Morales Basilio
22. Environmental impacts of development in Mexico City, Mexico, 1980–2012 331 Felipe Albino Gervacio
23. Health, urbanization and suburbanization in Bogota and neighboring municipalities . . . . 341 William H. Alfonso Pina, Clara Ines Pardo Martinez
24. The new land use in urban areas: social agriculture in the case study of Rome 359 Carmen Bizzarri
25. Foreign direct investment and environment in the Toluca-Lerma industrial zone . . . . 373 Maria Antonia Correa Serrano
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