Evaluating the impact of altitudinal variations on COVID-19 mortality rates: a comprehensive analysis [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary MedicineBackground High altitude, known for its effects on respiratory diseases, was analyzed for its potential protective role. Data from the New York Times COVID-19 repository, U.S.
Emre Karsli +6 more
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Reconversion of Agri-Food Production Systems and Deagrarianization in Spain: The Case of Cantabria
Land, 2023 The term deagrarianization refers to the dwindling importance of agrarian activity as the economic and social basis of a rural area. Deagrarianization is reflected in the declining number of people engaged in agricultural production and a reduction in ...
Carmen Delgado-Viñas
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The Major Relationships in the Economic Growth of the Rural Space
European Countryside, 2022 In this study, we aimed to overview the relationships of the most significant international theories dealing with the spatial economy, with special regard to the endogenous resources.
Káposzta József, Nagy Henrietta
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Food systems: New‐Ruralism versus New‐Urbanism [PDF]
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2012 AbstractThere is a growing debate on whether agricultural land in urban fringes should be maintained or converted to other uses. While ‘pro‐ruralists’ believe agricultural land conversion can threaten food security and cause rural‐urban migration, ‘pro‐urbanists’ find it a necessary change for transition from a primitive agricultural‐based community to
Azadi, Hossein +3 more
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Digital gaps and territory: technological-digital environments in Mexican homes
Ra Ximhai, 2022 The presence of ICTs in Mexican homes is analyzed, with the aim of showing the relationship between the gaps and the territorial dynamics. For this, data from the Mexican population census are used and the integration of the semi-rural and semi-urban ...
Raul Anthony Olmedo Neri
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Is patients’ rurality associated with in-hospital sepsis death in US hospitals?
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundThe focus of this study was to explore the association of patients’ rurality and other patient and hospital-related factors with in-hospital sepsis mortality to identify possible health disparities across United States hospitals.MethodsThe ...
Jongwha Chang +4 more
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Regional Concentration and Specialisation in Agricultural Activities in EU-9 Regions (1950-2000) [PDF]
, 2010 Both traditional (von Thünen) and modern (Hayami & Ruttan, Krugman) theories on land use suggest that productions with a high value added per unit of land tend to be located near urban centres.
Strijker, Dirk +2 more
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'Country life'? Rurality, folk music and 'Show of Hands' [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the contribution of folk music to understanding the dynamic, fluid and multi-experiential nature of the countryside. Drawing from literature on the geographies of music, it examines the work of 'Show of Hands', a contemporary folk ...
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Newcomers to farming: towards a new rurality in Europe
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2016 One of the oldest laments in agrarian development has been over the ageing and loss of the farm population but, for the first time since the Second World War, a noticeable return to farming is now taking place across most of Europe.
Neus Monllor i Rico, Anthony M. Fuller
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]
, 2017 This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera +2 more
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