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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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Current forest use in the light of new rurality
Trees, Forests and People, 2022 Current use of forests in the Javadi Hills, Tamil Nadu, a Southern state of India, is captured from three perspectives that have a direct bearing on forest use: livelihoods, housing and energy.
Ezhilan Arivudai Nambi +1 more
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Narrowed Gaps and Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Postsecondary Outcomes over Time [PDF]
, 2019 Empirical studies have concluded that rural students experience lower rates of college enrollment and degree completion compared to their nonrural peers, but this literature needs to be expanded and updated for a continually changing context.
Kimball, Ezekiel +3 more
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Everyday mobility and infrastructure in the configuration of non peri-urban rural space
Región y Sociedad, 2018 The purpose of this article is to determine how the non peri-urban rural space in the Mexico’s central region, which is a highly urbanized context, is organized.
Eduardo Cerón Aparicio
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PLoS ONE, 2021 ObjectiveReports of disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are emerging in the public health literature as the pandemic continues to unfold. Alcohol misuse varies across the US and is related to poorer health and comorbidities that likely affect the ...
George Pro +5 more
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Culture & History Digital Journal, 2016 During the 1980’s collective action was initiated with the purpose of saving the remnants of traditional livestock farming in Jämtland. This led to the articulation of a local agro-food system (LAFS) that managed to commercialize important elements of ...
Paulina Rytkönen
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US trends in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic depend on rurality
Rural and Remote Health, 2021 Introduction: Face masks are widely recommended as a COVID-19 prevention strategy. State mask mandates have generally reduced the spread of the disease, but decisions to wear a mask depend on many factors.
George Pro +9 more
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2014 This article analyzes the impact of the arrival of immigrants to Catalan rural areas from a gender perspective. We specifically observed the female migration routes to municipalities experiencing problems in ensuring the reproduction of their communities
Montserrat Soronellas-Masdeu +2 more
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Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on qualitative research with Central and East European (CEE) migrants living and working in rural areas of Scotland, this article explores what it is that facilitates a desire to stay longer term and how this relates to theorisations of social ...
Flynn, Moya, Kay, Rebecca
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Le front pionnier agro-désertique égyptien, par-delà rural et ruralité ?
EchoGéo, 2020 Since the middle of the 20th century, desert margins have become the place where the future of the Egyptian agriculture is projected, both by the state and by international institutions.
Delphine Acloque
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