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Internet use and adolescent development: A conceptual model integrating behavioral and contextual theories

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the digital era, adolescent development is deeply embedded in the cyber environment. Despite ongoing debate on the benefits and/or risks that Internet use brings to adolescents in empirical studies, conceptual and theoretical discussion on the influences of the intensity and modalities of Internet use is peripheral.
Linxiao Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metropolitan expansion and rural change in the peri-urban edge Medellín - Rionegro (Colombia)

open access: yesJournal of Urban Management
This paper addresses the way in which the expansion zones of the metropolitan areas of Medellín and Rionegro are currently moving from the communal relations that marked their rural life to anonymous relations in which notions of neighborliness are ...
Jorge Luis González-Calle
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2014
I have been thinking for a while now about the intriguing concept of foodshed in changing urban food regions. As the world becomes more urban, North and South, new fora, such as the International Urban Food Network—with the Toronto Food Policy Council as
Harriet Friedmann
doaj   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
wiley   +1 more source

How knowledge on land values influences rural-urban development processes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper stresses how important knowledge of land and real estate values, their underlying variables and valuation processes, as well as control over surplus-values generation and distribution, are for successful regional and urban planning.
Emília Malcata Rebelo
core   +1 more source

Informal employment of rural residents

open access: yesВестник университета
The theoretical foundations of the analysis of informal employment that have developed in modern sociological science have been considered, the modern society phenomenon characteristic patterns have been highlighted, and various interpretations of the ...
V. V. Levchenko, Ya. O. Bayandina
doaj   +1 more source

A new way to understand urban-rural relations: Habitus studies of rural places

open access: yesHungarian Geographical Bulletin, 2023
“Taken for-granted divisions of geographic space (such as centre and periphery) must be viewed according to Bourdieu, as the effect of distance in social space, i.e.
Vanda Jóvér
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting Rural and Urban Education Research

open access: yes, 2021
In this special issue of the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, a collection of international authors considers how their work and experiences in rural education research can inform, and sometimes even improve, urban-based education
Glowrey, Cheryl   +3 more
core  

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

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