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Back to the Countryside: Rural Development and the Spatial Patterns of Population Migration in Zhejiang, China

open access: yesAgriculture, 2021
This study examines how rural development in China shapes new trends in population migration. Using first-hand, village-level data from Zhejiang—an economically developed province in China—we investigated the patterns and influencing factors of ...
Weiming Tong, Kevin Lo
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Mechanism of incentives and accountability in rural institutions: Regional context in global dimensions of SDGS

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2023
This study aims to analyze the extent to which government incentives and village accountability contribute to village development in Indonesia. The achievement of the Village Development Index (VDI) consists of three dimensions: social resilience ...
Andi Chairil Furqan   +5 more
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Collaboration for social innovation in the agri-food system in Latin America and the Caribbean

open access: yesSpanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2021
Aim of study: This study reviews the state of the art of collaboration for social innovation in food and rural systems. The analysis focuses on cooperation by farms and agro-industry companies. The purpose is to identify not only the state of the art of
Veronica Piñeiro   +2 more
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Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the ...
Christoph van Dülmen, Andreas Klärner
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A Territorial Approach to the Production of Urban and Rural Landscape.

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2018
The authors, starting from the examination of the historic data of Palermo landscapes on the south-east side, draws up an analysis of the landscape by illustrating the environmental characteristics and the intervention of man in its transformations ...
Ferdinando Trapani   +2 more
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Rural Entrepreneurship through Vermicomposting – Case Studies

open access: yesDev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal, 2023
Solid waste management continue to be  a major challenge and permanent problem of urban as well as semi-urban areas of the country. A number of initiatives have been taken  by several public and private sector organizations to overcome this serious ...
K.S. Tyagi, D.P. Singh, Rajive K Gupta
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Vocational training choice from a regional perspective

open access: yesEmpirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Motivated by discussions of skill mismatches on local German vocational educational and training (VET) markets, this paper analyses how occupational segments of VET entry of individuals with lower and intermediate secondary school degree relate to local ...
Katja Schuster, Anne Margarian
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Metrics for Local Community Planning and Evaluation: The Case for Observational Measurement of High Risk Rural Sub-Populations in Occupant Safety

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to examine the relevance of non-specific safety belt use data for interventions to rural teens and to pilot a data collection project to provide more specific data to traffic safety stakeholders and educators in
Steve Davidson   +3 more
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Contextual influences on social enterprise management in rural and urban communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The idea that difference exists between rural and urban enterprise activity is not new, the obvious comparators are measures such as social architecture, resource availability and accessibility.
Anne MJ Smith   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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