rural support groupsIASWG and AASWG StandardsRural social work occurs in unique practice environments with challenges and rare opportunities. Strong social ties, commonly found in rural communities and often missing in urban areas, can serve as sources of resilience for group members facing adverse ...
We show the diverse practices that constitute social crofting and enable different kinds of wellbeing within rural communities. Our findings point to the challenges and barriers for social crofting which is under-resourced and under-valued in Scotland and we contextualise this within a hybrid ...
4 Residents of rural areas have multiple barriers to connecting with one another, including transportation challenges, built environments that are not always walkable or conducive to social interaction, more limited economic resources, less access to broadband Internet and cellular connectivity, and more ...
This article reports data from interviews with social-service providers and homeless youth in a rural county in the northwestern United States, drawing insights from both groups about the challenges of providing social services in rural places. Findings about drug use, sexual abuse and prostitution ...
Wood energy production, sustainable farming livelihood and multifunctionality in Finland Climate change and the projected depletion of fossil energy resources pose multiple global challenges. Innovative technologies offer interesting possibilit... Huttunen,Suvi - 《Journal of Rural Studies》 被引量: 32发表...
These informal carers themselves face numerous physical and psychological stressors in attempting to balance the provision of care with their personal life, their work commitments and family responsibilities. However, little is known about the specific challenges facing rural carers and the barriers that...
(Brown, 2016) to the diverse economies framework ofGibson-Graham et al. (2013). This is applied to better understand the challenges facing local organisations in their attempts to conserve and manage their local peatland in ways they consider appropriate to local contexts and their aspirations for...
Rural Social Capital versus European and Global Challenges (About "good" and "bad" Social Capital) This text has two aims - to relate the results of research carried out in IRWiR PAN (Institute for Rural and Agricultural Development Polish Academy of Sciences) on rural social capital and ...
Along with the agro-industrialization of Bukidnon, a rural province in Southern Philippines, is the need for companies' commitment to corporate social responsibility which has to operate within its context. Thus, with an aim to develop a community-based design for Corporate Social and Environmental ...