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Robins are a much loved Christmas icon, but wind turbines installed in their habitat are affecting their song, with worrying consequences.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
Boarded up pubs are becoming a common sight, and it’s having a real impact on rural village life.
In Iowa, almost 40 percent of residents can’t afford the basic cost of living. That was the setting for the 2018 midterm elections, where rural voters are suffering along with their communities.
Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
Today, 8 out of every 10 Americans live in a city or suburb.
As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
Research shows that young women are more ambivalent than young men when it comes to employment opportunities and other reasons to relocate to rural communities.
Englishness has been found in diverse places and has taken diverse forms.
Worldwide, hedgehogs are disappearing at the same rate as tigers.
New South African research supports evidence that urbanisation has a positive impact on people’s lives and must be managed appropriately for development.
Many who need help with opioid addiction live far from dedicated treatment centers.
A different form of state capture is underway in South Africa’s rural areas where traditional leaders are selling off people’s land to miners. But communities are fighting back.
“Flipped classrooms” aren’t yet common around Africa, but a partial flip that marries technology and collaboration has real potential.
Literary and artistic engagements have helped to shape the region into the iconic landscape it is today.
As South Africa prepares to introduce a national minimum wage, a new study shows that it will have a varied impact. Some parts of the economy are likely to be negatively affected.
Twenty years ago, a sheriff won a lawsuit against a federal gun control law. Today, San Francisco is betting the same argument for state’s rights will stop Trump from defunding sanctuary cities.
More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there’s no going back.
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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University of Southern Queensland
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Project Director, RTC: Rural, University of Montana
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Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University
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Associate Research Scientist in Rural Sociology, Adjunct Faculty - National Farm Medicine Center, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
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Professor (Communication), Deakin University
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Professor in Geography, University of Wollongong
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RTC:Rural Director and Director of Employment Research, University of Montana
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Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research fellow, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
