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In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
Can we now work from anywhere with an internet connection? We interviewed workers who left the city but held onto their jobs to see how they fared. One year on, some had no regrets. Others moved back.
Constructed ice domes release water during dry periods when rain is blocked by high mountain ranges, stifling essential crop cultivation for rural communities.
Alaska is warming faster than any other U.S. state, and that’s causing problems, a team of bridge engineers and social scientists explains. The infrastructure bill in Congress would offer some help.
Without community involvement and ownership, renewable energy projects are doomed to fail over the long term.
Misconceptions of rural realities can have serious implications. Better use of data can help avoid this and lead to policies that will help rural communities recover in the post-pandemic.
Women and girls are forced to spend hours each day hauling water for their households. Beyond harming both physical and mental health, this takes time away from economic activities and caregiving.
As the scale of the pandemic revealed itself in March, one small town in Newfoundland created a community-led meals-on-wheels to support its seniors.
A disaster is looming for remote Canadian communities after Air Canada cancelled 30 regional routes. It threatens the rights of all Canadians to be connected to the national transportation system.
Rural America has special problems as it copes with the COVID-19 pandemic.
A greater focus on the well-established migrant populations and second-generation youth is crucial when planning for the social and economic well-being of rural and regional areas.
We read about and watch other people moving to the coast or country and, in doing so, sometimes we’re persuaded to join the seachangers and treechangers ourselves.
Rural Westerners have been stereotyped as angry ranchers who hate government. But for every gun-wielding militia member, there are many others who work collaboratively to protect what they value.
Tasmania has an estimated rental housing shortfall of 29,200 households across the state. Especially in disadvantaged rural areas, local councils have had to step in to help house residents locally.
Australia’s local leadership, including businesses executives and politicians, is relatively weak compared to those in other nations.
Across Japan, towns and villages are vanishing as the population ages and young people move to the cities. How the country manages this holds lessons for other developed nations facing a similar fate.
A closer look at the resolution of South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, show that it won’t undertake a radical economic transformation agenda as suggested by media reports.
South Africa has some of the highest mobile voice and data costs in the world. A project to deliver affordable services and keep money in communities with high unemployment rates could be the answer.
Farm dwellers’ conclusion is that the politics associated with land is not about an organised emancipatory movement. Farm dwellers are mainly preoccupied with daily survival strategies.
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, University of South Australia
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
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Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor of Telecommunications, Penn State
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Professor, University of South Carolina
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Property and Housing Management Researcher, Applied Sociology, public policy and impact evaluation., University of Tasmania
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Senior Researcher and Director of Climate Change and Risk Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Management, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainable Urban Precincts Project, RMIT University
