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Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 2019 AbstractThe dismantling of government research throughout rural North America has altered the ways environmental scientists understand their ties to rural places like northwest British Columbia. As growing numbers of researchers have leveraged their professional mobility to move to small mountain towns and other rural locales—a process known as ...
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Amenity Migration in the Context of Landscape-Ecology Research [PDF]
Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2008 Amenity Migration in the Context of Landscape-Ecology Research Amenity migration is a specific type of migration that is not economically motivated. Rather it is brought about by a desire to render more valuable the natural or socio-cultural environment of the target territory, and it is often directed from metropolitan to rural areas.
Michael Bartoš +4 more
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Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps:
Revue 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
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services, yet it continues to decline due to intensive agriculture, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Although ecolabels are increasingly used to communicate sustainability attributes and influence consumer choices, their role in addressing biodiversity ...
Marzieh Aminravan +4 more
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Minorités linguistiques autochtones des Alpes italiennes
Revue 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
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governance is a well‐known dimension of adaptive capacity across various frameworks, however specific links between perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy and adaptive capacity remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we investigate connections between climate change adaptation and perceptions of governance (il)legitimacy using focus ...
Emma D. Rice +8 more
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Comparative Migration StudiesDespite the growing interest in the migration of older adults in China, the intricacies linking migration motivations with destination choices remain insufficiently explored.
Sen Li, Zehan Pan
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Research Trends and Future Agenda on Urban Amenities: A Bibliometric Analysis and Critical Review
BuildingsUrban amenities are spatially localized attributes and resources within urban contexts that provide residents and potential newcomers with utility and attractiveness. This review combines bibliometric and content analyses of 568 papers retrieved from the
Ran Gao +4 more
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Revue 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
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Amenity migration in the U.S. Sierra Nevada [PDF]
, 2009 This study is based on the concept of "amenity migration," a type of urban-to-rural residential movement. According to Laurence Moss, amenity migration refers to "people moving into the mountains to reside year-round or intermittently, principally ...
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