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China’s hukou system is a relic of the Mao era – and it’s holding the nation’s rural population back.
In this new world where its lost thousands of votes does South Africa’s ruling ANC know who it is, how to be in opposition, or how it might fight its way back to winning ways?
There is a growing trend of designing modernised replicas of traditional buildings for entertainment and tourism. That’s no way to salvage positive lessons from building traditions.
It’s time for a fresh look at community and policy development in rural and regional NSW – one that recognises that doing things differently will deliver benefits to urban populations as well.
Only 55 percent of people living in rural areas have access to the speeds that currently qualify as broadband, while 94 percent of the urban population does.
When villages across Spain, Portugal and Italy are abandoned, the regions’ unique culture and heritage is lost, too.
Students who move from rural areas to cities to pursue university degrees grapple with what it means to “leave behind” their home languages.
What can be done about the lack of connectivity in remote areas?
What happens when you find yourself homeless in the countryside?
South Africa’s educational policies and curricula tend to be biased against rural lifestyles - even though nearly 20 million people live in the country’s rural areas.
The mechanisms are there - but where’s the evidence?
The suicides of four Chinese children left behind by their migrant worker parents could be an ominous sign of things to come.
Wealthy commuters, retirees and second home owners are pricing locals out of the villages they grew up in.
Plaid Cyrmu’s agricultural policies clash with Wales’ current course of action.
The return of heatwaves and bushfires to the news pages has brought fresh warnings that Australians who live in fire-prone zones still don’t fully understand the risk they are running. Deadly fires in…
The biggest names in internet retail appear to be dramatically stepping up efforts to make delivering your online orders, fast, reliable and extremely hi-tech. But in a week in which Amazon talked up its…
The high profile phenomenon of fly-in fly-out workers has gained widespread attention as a unique social phenomenon since the start of the mineral boom – and it has major implications for the well-being…
In this week’s Country Life HRH Prince of Wales writes of the social and economic importance of farming. It is, he says: the bedrock of our rural communities, making post offices, pubs, public transport…
While broadband internet services get faster and faster for some, there are communities in the UK that are not fully benefiting from the technology. It has recently become clear that many communities in…
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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
