The UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages Guiding Principles - Assessment of the Adoptability to Topical Land Management Challenges in Germany, Kenya and Tanzania

Urban and rural areas depend on each other—especially in urbanizing regions with competing interests in scarce environmental resources, such as soil and land. The development of cities, urban surroundings and rural areas is functionally and closely intertwined: food, building materials, energy, water and waste are typical material !ows next to the pervading networks of housing markets, culture or tourism. The networks and material flows are all linked to contending land-use demands. Urban and rural stakeholders can cooperate or do compete in the exploitation of soil functions and services. However, often decision-makers are not aware of or do not fully encompass the meaning and impacts of urban-rural linkages for un-/sustainable land management. This unawareness is not least due to the complex nature of the interdependencies and urban-rural linkages.

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