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The future of regional airports in Australia: Policy challenges

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Council‐owned regional airports in Australia face governance challenges that have caused significant financial unsustainability across the sector. Federal policy frameworks fail to address these challenges and risk exacerbating existing pressures by outlining ambitious visions for the adoption of new technologies and achieving net zero.
Linda Wasiela   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
wiley   +1 more source

New Highlanders in Traditional Out-migration Areas in the Alps

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2015
According to the population and migration development on a municipal level in the Alps since the last decades, it has become obvious that the population gain that began in France in the 1980s has been expanding ever since towards the eastern parts of the
Roland Löffler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Transfer Intentions Among Floating Population in Chinese Cities: Spatial Differences and Multi-Level Determinants

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
The hukou transfer intentions (HTI), as an essential indicator of migration behaviors, is of great significance to the urbanization development and the citizenization process of China’s floating migrants.
Xin Lao, Zhihao Zhao, Hengyu Gu
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Amenity and Rural Change in Temperate Australia: Implications for Development and Sustainability

open access: yesRevija za Geografijo, 2009
Many rural areas in the developed world are experiencing planning and development challenges related to processes of population change. The nature, direction and regional manifestations of these changes are strongly related to the varying levels of local
Neil Argent   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

The role of landscape amenities in regional development: a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies [PDF]

open access: yes
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape.
Fabian Waltert, Felix Schlaepfer
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Zebrafish to Study Collective Cell Migration in Development and Disease

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2018
Cellular migration is necessary for proper embryonic development as well as maintenance of adult health. Cells can migrate individually or in groups in a process known as collective cell migration.
Hannah M. Olson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amenity-Led Migration in Rural Australia: A New Driver of Local Demographic and Environmental Change?

open access: yes, 2011
There is growing acceptance that the fortunes of the non-metropolitan Australian ecumene are increasingly dependent on the interchanges of population, capital and ideas between cities and rural towns and regions.
M. Tonts (23322463)   +3 more
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