Search Results - Rural Sociological Society

Solving the problems of Iowa food deserts: food insecurity and civic structure by Morton, L.W, Bitto, E.A, Oakland, M.J, Sand, M

“…Rural regions include places where food sources are not evenly distributed, leading to areas of concentration and food deserts—places where few or no grocery…”
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"Culture Clash'' Revisited: Newcomer and Longer-Term Residents' Attitudes Toward Land Use, Development, and Environmental Issues in Rural Communities in the Rocky Mountain West by Smith, Michael D., Krannich, Richard S.

“…Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have experienced substantial in‐migration in the 1990s. Popular media accounts and…”
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Social capital in rural and urban communities by Hofferth, S.L, Iceland, J

“…Conventional wisdom says that social capital is more common among families in rural communities than urban communities. Using data from the 1988 wave of the…”
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Misrepresenting Communities: The Politics of Community-Based Rural Ecotourism in Gales Point Manatee, Belize by Belsky, JiU M.

“…While the celebration of community in conservation provides legitimization to contest centrist and coercive protected area management strategies,…”
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Is there a forest transition? Deforestation, reforestation, and development by Rudel, T.K

“…Environmental social scientists have recently begun to use the term 'forest transition' to describe how forest cover changes as economic development occurs in…”
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Bonding Social Capital of Rural Women in Southwest Iran: Application of Social Network Analysis by Ghorbani, Mehdi, Javadi, Seyed Akbar, Rasekhi, Sare, Yazdanparast, Maryam, Azadi, Hossein

“…The establishment of local communal organizations is a unique strategy of rural communities to build resilience against economic challenges. Shirvareh is…”
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Support for Climate Change Policy: Social Psychological and Social Structural Influences by Dietz, T, Dan, A, Shwom, R

“…We investigated preferences for climate change mitigation policies and factors contributing to higher levels of policy support. The sample was comprised of 316…”
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A Theory of Access by Ribot, Jesse C., Peluso, Nancy Lee

“…The term “access” is frequently used by property and natural resource analysts without adequate definition. In this paper we develop a concept of access and…”
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Poverty in Nonmetropolitan America: Impacts of Industrial, Employment, and Family Structure Variables by Albrecht, Don E., Albrecht, Stan L.

“…Poverty is more extensive and more severe in nonmetropolitan areas than in metropolitan areas. Here we maintain that the extensive industrial and economic…”
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Social Psychological and Structural Influences on Vegetarian Beliefs by Kalof, Linda, Dietz, Thomas, Stern, Paul C., Guagnano, Gregory A.

“…This study examines the link between social structural variables (gender, race, education, age, rural childhood), individual social psychology (altruism,…”
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Revisiting the Rural-Urban Contrast: Personal Networks in Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan Settings by Beggs, John J

“…General Social Survey data (1985) indicate that nonmetropolitan social networks were smaller and denser than urban networks; contained larger proportions of…”
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Getting the goods on social capital by Wall, E. (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.), Ferrazzi, G, Schryer, F

“…This article presents an overview of the origins, development, rapid diffusion, and current usage of the concept of social capital in both the academic…”
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Unequal ecological exchange and environmental degradation: a theoretical proposition and cross-national study of deforestation, 1990-2000 by Jorgenson, A.K

“…Political‐economic sociologists have long investigated the dynamics and consequences of international trade. With few exceptions, this area of inquiry ignores…”
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The Social Bases of Environmental Concern: Have They Changed over Time? by Jones, Robert Emmet, Dunlap, Riley E

“…Tests two hypotheses concerning possible changes in the sociopolitical correlates of environmental concern. Analysis of the National Opinion Research Center…”
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Continuity and Change in Rural Migration Patterns, 1950-1995 by Johnson, Kenneth M., Fuguitt, Glenn V.

“…During the past several decades, rural America has experienced turbulent demographic change. We examine rural age‐specific migration data for 1950 to 1995 to…”
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A Political Ecology of Shrimp Aquaculture in Thailand by Vandergeest, Peter, Flaherty, Mark, Miller, Paul

“…This paper uses themes from political ecology to develop insights into the billion dollar shrimp aquaculture sector in Thailand. We find that corporations can…”
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Rural-Urban Differences in Environmental Concern in Canada by Huddart-Kennedy, Emily, Beckley, Thomas M, McFarlane, Bonita L, Nadeau, Solange

“…Distinctions between rural and urban populations are well documented in environmental sociology literature. Rural and urban places may exert different…”
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New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System by Busch, Lawrence, Bain, Carmen

“…The last decade has witnessed a dramatic rise in global trade in food and agricultural products. While much analysis has focused on the role of the World Trade…”
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How Resource Dependency Can Influence Social Resilience within a Primary Resource Industry by Marshall, N.A, Fenton, D.M, Marshall, P.A, Sutton, S.G

“…Maintaining a healthy balance between human prosperity and environmental integrity is at the core of the principles of Ecological Sustainable Development…”
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Globalization: Myths and Realities by McMichael, Philip

“…Nationally oriented institutions of the developmentalist era are being replaced by globally oriented institutions under the legitimizing cloak of efficiency…”
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