The sustainable livelihoods framework offers a good way of ensuring a comprehensive and balanced approach to information needs. Its use in planning would help to demonstrate the need for good data linked to all the main capital assets areas (natural, human, financial, physical and social) and would, therefore include such matters as demographic information, local skills availability, rural-urban linkages, etc. Natural resources information is but one vital element amongst the five assets and it is necessary to make connections and inter-linkages. The present book on Rural Planning in developing countries encompasses a wide range of content and approaches in its ambit and as such it is expected to be of much interest and useful to a vast spectrum of scholars.
