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Digital social innovations in rural areas – process tracing and mapping critical junctures

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103510

Carola Sommer , Tobias Chilla , Lisa Birnbaum , Stephan Kröner

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Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103505

Susanne Klien

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Controversies over second-home development in outdoor recreation landscapes: A Norwegian case

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103511

Hogne Øian , Sofie Kjendlie Selvaag , Merethe Grimsen Lerfald , Monica A. Breiby , Birgitta Ericsson

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The rural development trilemma

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103504

Jostein Vik , Jahn Petter Johnsen , Signe Annie Sønvisen

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The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103497

Ruth Wilson, Christina Noble, Margaret Currie

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Multi-actor rural innovation ecosystems: Definition, dynamics, and spatial relations

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103492

Simona Bravaglieri, Hanna Elisabet Åberg, Alessia Bertuca, Claudia de Luca

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Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103496

Kasper Friis Bavnbæk, Annette Aagaard Thuesen

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Labour migration, mass unemployment and the state: Class, gender and work in the Land Settlement Association in inter-war rural England

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103498

Adrian Smith

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Responding to Greece's constrained agricultural context: Farm diversification strategies used by family farmers

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103522

Peter Gittins , Sotiris Apostolopoulos , Eleni E. Anastasopoulou , Nikolaos Apostolopoulos

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Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103494

Hualin Xie, Zhenyi Ouyang, Wei Liu, Yafen He

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