Rural Development Putting the last first [Hardcover]

Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, academics, students or researchers.

Preface
1. Rural Poverty Unperceived
2. Two Cultures of Outsiders
3. How Outsiders Learn
4. Whose Knowledge?
5. Integrated Rural Poverty
6. Seeing what to do
7. The New Professionalism: Putting the Last First
8. Practical Action
References
Index