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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"rural sustainability"”.
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Human-environment interactions in rural and agricultural communities: identifying opportunities for sustainability efforts using quantitative, qualitative, and GIS methods
… change. This makes the study of agricultural sustainability, and the sustainability of the many rural communities that rely on agriculture, essential for the future of our planet. However, given the complex nature of problems in agricultural and rural sustainability, solutions often require an …
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Widening stakeholder involvement: exploiting interactive 3D visualisation and protocol buffers in geo-computing
Land use change has an impact on regional sustainability which can be assessed using social, economic and environmental indicators. Stakeholder engagement tools provide a platform that can demonstrate the possible future impacts land use change may have to better inform stakeholder groups of the …
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An Assessment of Outmigration-related Land Use Transition in Rural Area and Corresponding Social and Ecological Dynamics - A Case Study in Southwest China
… expansion has led to massive outmigration in rural regions, which has changed regional labour force structure and local landscape patterns and resulted in a series of social, agricultural, and ecological dynamics. Given the small-scale household-based agriculture pattern in rural regions, …
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An Assessment of Outmigration-related Land Use Transition in Rural Area and Corresponding Social and Ecological Dynamics - A Case Study in Southwest China
… expansion has led to massive outmigration in rural regions, which has changed regional labour force structure and local landscape patterns and resulted in a series of social, agricultural, and ecological dynamics. Given the small-scale household-based agriculture pattern in rural regions, …
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Towards sustainable rural development in KwaZulu/Natal
… left indelible conditions of inequalities in the rural areas of KwaZulu/Natal, especially the inequalities in agricultural land distribution. In spite of the repeal of all racial laws since 1994, and the implementation of the land reform programme under the RDP, there has to date not been a …
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Constructing "Community" in a Changing Economy: A Case Study Analysis of Local Organizing in the Rural United States
Disaster can sometimes be a time of opportunity: for reflection, reevaluation, and readjustment--for questioning the status quo. Through a case study of Wilmington, Ohio, a small Ohio town in the midst of a self-described economic disaster, I consider how organizational networks and communities …
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Investigating Access to Wildlife and Other Natural Resources in the Urbanizing Amazon
… development policies have traditionally targeted rural areas, there is a growing need to consider the interconnectedness between urban, peri-urban (i.e. the area surrounding the urban center) and rural communities as the region urbanizes. The overall research question that guided this thesis …