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In-Between Sprawl and Neo-Rurality: Sparse Settlements and the Evolution of Socio-Demographic Local Context in a Mediterranean Region [PDF]
Sustainability, 2018 Dispersed urbanization during the last half century has transformed metropolitan regions into well-connected, low-density residential areas. However, this kind of urbanization has changed irreversibly the traditional rural landscape around cities, leading to a new definition of ‘rurality’.
Rosanna Salvia +4 more
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Revista Brasileira de Educação, 2022 ABSTRACT To understand the training perspective proposed by the State in the education policies of the neo-developmental period (2001–2016), we analyzed the relationship of these policies with the development project. Based on the theoretical and methodological framework of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, we carry out a document analysis, an ...
Magda Gisela Cruz dos Santos +1 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aims The aim of the study is to describe the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for the treatment of cancer in Scotland. Methods The retrospective observational cohort study included patients aged 18 years or older who commenced treatment with an ICI in Scotland between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2024.
Tanja Mueller +9 more
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Colombia Internacional, 2018 The aim of this study is to provide possibilities for a theoretical interpretation of the foundations of the criminalization of rural social movements in Brazil.
Pedro Vasconcelos Rocha +1 more
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability has prompted companies to engage with stakeholders in addressing environmental and social challenges. This paper investigates how companies and stakeholders co‐create value through a collaborative and iterative process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of sustainable strategies.
Meryem Altaf +3 more
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Studying intergenerational processes in 21st century rural African societies
Barn, 2019 This paper illustrates the impact of political economy on young people’s life courses and intergenerational processes in rural Africa. Rapid transformations and social changes in rural Africa often as a result of political economy contributes to the ...
Douglas Tendai Phiri
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Neo-rurality: roots of future in the field
Scienze del Territorio, 2014 Moving from the observation of a change taking place in the way of cultivating, defined as ‘new peasant agriculture’, and placing it in a relational milieu, lively and (inter) active, that tends to completely redefine the (social, institutional, economic, territorial, landscape and cultural) perception of rural world, this ‘vision’ interprets it as the
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Theory and Society, 2023 AbstractSince at least the 1970s, the countryside of Western Europe has been the site of a myriad of “new” communal initiatives. Rural areas that were abandoned during the last century have witnessed the arrival of new inhabitants. These newcomers often flock to the mountains escaping urban lifestyles characterized by individualism, mass-oriented ...
Ismael Vaccaro +2 more
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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract Background Sheep wool may reduce drought stress in grasslands when used as a soil amendment. Two experiments were conducted to explore if: (i) water absorbed by wool would be biologically ‘active’ and therefore available to plants, using a novel method of measuring water activity (aw); and, (ii) adding wool to compost would delay water stress ...
Siân Bethan MacKintosh +5 more
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