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Rural transformation and the future of China's "granary": A perspective on livelihood trajectories

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103524

Jianzhi Liu , Yangang Fang , Jiajun Qiao , Mark W. Rosenberg , Ruru Wang , Xiaoyue Liu , Shuhan Yu

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Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103549

W.J. de Lange , F. van der Bank , M.E. Volscheck , T.E. Kleynhans

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Explaining farmers’ pro-environmental behaviors in rural China: A perspective of appraisal theory of emotions

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103584

Xudan Lin , Jie He , Hong Zhu

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Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103551

Rachel Brown

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Reusing data for development: Lessons learned from an agricultural observatory in Madagascar

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103585

Marina Dimitriou , Louis Olié

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“It's one thing after another, after another”: A participatory and systems-based exploration of farmer mental health and climate change

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103573

C. Weatherly , F.C. Doherty

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Rural family carer health work and ageing at home in New Brunswick, Canada

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Journal of Rural Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103541

Mary Rita Holland , Mark W. Skinner

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Digital social innovations in rural areas – process tracing and mapping critical junctures 农村地区的数字社会创新——关键时刻的过程追踪和绘图

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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? 大流行后日本生活方式移民的发展：从回归土地到城乡？

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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 户外休闲景观中第二住宅开发的争议：一个挪威案例

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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

{"title":"Controversies over second-home development in outdoor recreation landscapes: A Norwegian case","authors":"Hogne Øian , Sofie Kjendlie Selvaag , Merethe Grimsen Lerfald , Monica A. Breiby , Birgitta Ericsson","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During recent decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of second homes in rural municipalities of Norway. While second-home owners, as part-time residents, significantly contribute economically and socially to their host communities, the development has sparked concerns about the appropriation of natural areas in forests and mountain landscapes, the creation of urbanised enclaves within these areas and the potential challenges to municipal planning capacities and policies due to pressure from landowners, private investors and developers.</div><div>We highlight three interrelated issues, focusing on opinions and discourses manifest in controversies over second-home development in a popular mountain destination in the southeastern region of Norway. First, we explore to what extent conflicts of interest between various private and public stakeholders arise from irreconcilable ways of engaging with land properties of the landscapes. Second, we analyse the disagreements regarding the allocation of responsibilities between the private and public sectors, which often serve as the foundation for controversies. Third, we examine how these controversies shape stakeholders’ perceptions and expressions of sustainability issues, especially among those with conflicting interests. It is concluded that the development process, increasingly driven by neoliberal public planning and land-use regulations for second-home developments, clashes with the common perceptions of residents and long-time second-home owners, who view the landscape as a collection of indistinct land properties. Landowners, developers and municipalities fail to sufficiently consider this, exacerbating the existing deficiencies in planning and regulatory processes and intensifying the controversies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103511"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744482","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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