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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"urban-rural divide"”.
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Intra-Regional Economic Connectivity: The Role of Industry Clusters in Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide
… types of industry clusters and types of urban and rural communities within regions respond to intra-regional connectivity. Independent-samples t-tests are conducted to assess whether significant differences in the annualized county-cluster employment growth rate (2010-2016) exist between …
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Navigating the Urban-Rural Divide: The Agency of Rural Chinese Female Higher Education Students in China
<p>This dissertation explores how rural Chinese female students at urban Chinese higher education institutions conceptualize and negotiate the urban-rural divide that often interplays with gender and the discourse of quality (suzhi) to shape their lives. A substantial body of literature discusses …
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Musical Resonance: An Exploration of Class and Urban-Rural Disparities in Music Tastes and Practices in Contemporary China
… within Western contexts, the pronounced urban-rural divide in China is equally significant. The unique social structures and access disparities between urban and rural areas may shape music appreciation and consumption in ways that differ from Western patterns. This research draws on …
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Maternal Mortality: A Policy Comparison Between Nigeria and India.
… to serve in their own communities to improve the urban-rural divide in maternal health indicators.</p>
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Measuring Accessibility to Primary Health Care Across the Urban-rural Continuum in the Province of Alberta
… is necessary to understand the issue of the urban-rural divide in access health care. The main concern with the previously developed accessibility measures is that the urban-rural continuum is treated as a dichotomous variable, while many degrees of rurality exist. While many studies …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… for Liaoning’s prefectures and for the urban-rural divide within prefectures. As such, life expectancy is shown here to be a useful indicator in the measurement of regional development, and a constructive tool for policy making and regional planning.
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Political Disengagement and Spaces of Neglect in the Current Political System
… This thesis investigates the traditional urban/rural divide in turnout levels for General Election 2016, demonstrating that this effect exists independently of an area’s socio-economic and demographic profile. The impact of other geographical factors is noted in all case studies. Candidate …
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A study of potentially toxic elements in the Forth and Clyde Canal, Scotland, UK
… of Fe was relatively constant, but an urban/rural divide was evident in the concentrations of the other analytes, indicting significant anthropogenic input, most likely due to runoff of contaminated urban soils. High levels of analytes at particular locations could often be attributed …
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Alternative Food Landscapes. Designing Food-Sensitive Landscapes beyond Urban-Rural Bonundaries
In an era of accelerating urbanisation and climate change, integrating sustainable food systems into urban-rural landscapes has become a crucial strategy for developing resilient environments and communities. Contemporary food systems' weaknesses have been exacerbated by global crises like COVID-19 …
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An evaluation of the development and implementation of individualised funding for people with a disability
… in person-centred plans; and an emerging urban/rural divide. These findings provide historical context/background to the development of four pilot individualised funding initiatives in Ireland, which were evaluated in Study Two. Study Two) The individualised funding pilots in Ireland - …