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Internal migration and the de-standardization of the life course: A sequence analysis of reasons for migrating

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2022
Background: The life-course perspective has become one of the main paradigms in migration research, providing a rich and fruitful framework for understanding migration behavior. Despite a large literature on the association between internal migration and
Aude Bernard, Sunganani Kalemba
doaj   +1 more source

Dai contadini operai agli amenity migrants. L'eredità del socialismo e il futuro del ruralismo montano in Romania

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2017
This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. Today,
Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu
doaj   +1 more source

Second homes in the Alpine Region

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2014
Second homes have grown quickly in numbers in the last decades and played an important role in the development of many municipalities in the Alpine Region. With an estimated number of 1’850’000, second homes account for more than 25% of the housing stock
Roger Sonderegger, Werner Bätzing
doaj   +1 more source

Local Transformations and New Economic Functionalities Generated by Amenity Migration in Northern Chilean Patagonia

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2015
Amenity migration in the mountain regions of southern Chile is a phenomenon that academia has not analysed very often. However, it has gained greater prominence in recent years and is becoming an important factor in generating change in these rural areas.
Carla Marchant, Fernanda Rojas
doaj   +1 more source

From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2017
This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. Today,
Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu
doaj   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps:

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2011
More than any other area in Western Europe, the Alps, especially the Italian Alps, are home to great ethno-cultural diversity: there, no less than seven autochthonous linguistic minorities coexist side by side with the respective official majority.
Ernst Steinicke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minorités linguistiques autochtones des Alpes italiennes 

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2011
More than any other area in Western Europe, the Alps, especially the Italian Alps, are home to great ethno-cultural diversity: there, no less than seven autochthonous linguistic minorities coexist side by side with the respective official majority.
Ernst Steinicke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Place matters: challenges and opportunities in four rural Americas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A survey of 7,800 rural Americans in 19 counties across the country has led to the Carsey Institute\u27s first major publication that outlines four distinctly different rural Americas—amenity, decline, chronic poverty, and those communities in decline ...
Colocousis, Chris R.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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