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Effect of Internet usage on nonfarm employment participation and quality: Evidence from China 互联网使用对非农就业参与和就业质量的影响：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103882

Wenhao Liu, Zhineng Hu

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You'll never work alone: Assessing user value in remote working hubs 您永远不会独自工作：评估远程工作中心中的用户价值

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103873

Ann O'Brien, Eoin Whelan, Yixin Qiu, Jonathan Levie

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Rural E-commerce diffusion and arable land Non-grainization: Evidence from 1145 counties in China 农村电子商务扩散与耕地非粮食化：来自中国1145个县域的证据

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103885

Hanjin Li , Hu Tian , Xiaoyan Yang , Tao Liu

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Psychological health among livestock owners, the potential effect of large carnivores 家畜主人的心理健康，大型食肉动物的潜在影响

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103863

Anders Flykt , Jens Frank , Maria Johansson

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Agrarian pragmatics: How women on family farms in Queensland, Australia negotiate competing discourses to enact their agrarian ideals 农业语用学：澳大利亚昆士兰家庭农场的妇女如何通过谈判竞争性话语来实现她们的农业理想

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103878

Marlyn McInnerney , Jane Palmer

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Spatial optimization of cropping patterns of staple crops to enhance supply–demand balance in China 中国主粮作物种植格局空间优化促进供需平衡

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103869

Zhen-Zhong Dai , Jia-Jia Duan , Hao-Yuan Liang , Zhi-Yuan Zhu , Yong-Zhong Feng , Xing Wang

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Mapping rural-urban differences in state expenditures with geospatial methods – explorative spatial data analysis from Finland 用地理空间方法绘制国家支出的城乡差异——芬兰探索性空间数据分析

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103881

Olli Lehtonen , Teemu Makkonen , Hilkka Vihinen , Timo Hirvonen , Simo Rautiainen , Olli Voutilainen

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Assessing sustainability in rural tourism: insights from accommodation managers and residents in Navarre 评估乡村旅游的可持续性：来自纳瓦拉住宿管理者和居民的见解

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103866

Maider Samper-Mendívil, Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta, Rocío Alarcón-López

{"title":"Assessing sustainability in rural tourism: insights from accommodation managers and residents in Navarre","authors":"Maider Samper-Mendívil, Maria Elena Aramendia-Muneta, Rocío Alarcón-López","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper aims to assess the sustainability of rural tourism in the Spanish region of Navarre, with a focus on its economic, environmental and sociocultural dimensions. To adopt a holistic perspective, we first analysed secondary data from local residents provided by the Navarre Tourism Observatory. Subsequently, we conducted a survey among rural accommodation managers to gain insights from the tourism supply side. The combined approach allows for a more comprehensive understanding of how rural tourism is evolving in the region. Our findings reveal a range of successful practices, as well as challenges that persist. In that vein, rural tourism contributes to economic development and cultural preservation; however, concerns such as overcrowding, low job quality and environmental degradation remain unaddressed. Moreover, certain geographic areas are falling behind in implementing sustainable tourism practices, highlighting the need for targeted interventions. To ensure long-term viability, it is essential to promote responsible tourism practices, support community well-being and alleviate environmental pressures. Additionally, involving local communities in tourism planning helps ensure an equitable distribution of benefits and fosters the preservation of natural and cultural heritage. Among the three sustainability dimensions, the environmental domain holds the greatest potential for improvement. Actionable recommendations include policies to manage visitor flow, promote responsible tourism practices, and enhance stakeholder collaboration. We argue that this research offers valuable guidance in sustainable tourism development, particularly for regions highly dependent on tourism and comparable in size and characteristics to Navarre.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103866"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145010337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs? 在农村赚钱：中小企业是否面临着农村化的负担？

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103886

Marc Cowling , Ross Brown , Weixi Liu , Huan Yang

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From drought to recovery: How extreme drought drives adaptive behaviour and grain production efficiency in Sichuan and Chongqing, China 从干旱到恢复：极端干旱如何推动四川和重庆的适应性行为和粮食生产效率

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103860

Qiang He , Yanbin Qi

{"title":"From drought to recovery: How extreme drought drives adaptive behaviour and grain production efficiency in Sichuan and Chongqing, China","authors":"Qiang He , Yanbin Qi","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of extreme droughts, exacerbating the global food crisis and threatening food security. As the primary decision-makers in grain production, farmers' capacity to adapt to extreme droughts is critical for building agricultural resilience and ensuring regional food security. Using the rare 60-year extreme drought in China's Sichuan and Chongqing regions as a case, this study analyses survey data from 1011 farm households. We employ the endogenous switching regression (ESR) model, which allows us to account for selection bias when estimating the impact of disasters, to examine how extreme drought affects the grain production efficiency (GPE) of farm households and to uncover the role of adaptive behaviours in this process. Our results show that: (1) Farmers who experienced extreme drought saw an unexpected improvement in grain production efficiency in the subsequent year, revealing a positive \"post-disaster recovery\" effect. (2) Quantile regression results indicate that the impact of extreme drought on GPE displays a non-linear, inverted \"U\" pattern across efficiency levels. (3) Mechanism analysis reveals that adaptive behaviours adopted after drought—especially farmland management and risk-sharing strategies—are key in improving GPE in the following season. (4) Heterogeneity analysis shows that a higher supply of meteorological information enhances the positive effects of adaptive behaviour, and that farmers with stronger risk perceptions achieve better efficiency outcomes after drought. Overall, our findings clarify the causal links and mechanisms between extreme drought, farmer adaptation, and grain production efficiency. The evidence supports the sustainable livelihood framework, highlighting that rational individuals adopt adaptive strategies in response to external pressures, and echoes resilience theory by demonstrating that agricultural systems can enhance their capacity to recover from shocks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"120 ","pages":"Article 103860"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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