Book: Local and Rural Development through the Lens of Sustainable Life

The book “Local and Rural Development through the Lens of Sustainable Life”, which is composed of articles by academics participating as instructors in local and rural development certificate programs, has been published by Özyeğin University. Offering readers a rich resource blending theory with practice, the book contains 24 articles and interviews organized under four main headings. The book has filled an important gap in the Turkish literature on local and rural development.

As a platform where necessary operational knowledge on local and rural development is generated and compiled, the editors of the book “Local and Rural Development through the Lens of Sustainable Life”, Özyeğin University faculty member Faik Gür and the Rural Development Officer of the Sustainability Platform and Field Studies Specialist Murat Bayramoğlu summarize their expectations as follows: “We need a rights-based, sustainable, and fair development philosophy and practice. The common point of the scientists, representatives of producer organizations, and practitioners on the field who have brought this book into existence with their actions and writings is the effort to discuss a new development paradigm that we need with the readers. We hope that this book will be useful for academics, students, practitioners, policy makers, civil society organizations, and public sector workers who are interested in and work in the field of local and rural development.”