What is rural communityMurdoch, JDay, JMurdoch, J. and Day, J. (1995) What is Rural Community. Paper presented at the Migration Issues in Rural Areas, Swansea, UK.
Face-to-face interviews with 115 farmers in two rural regions of New South Wales, Australia, highlight the importance of the local economy and jobs, the quality of the local environment and a strong sense of belonging, in contributing to a strong sense of local community and potential for ...
Although policy makers and the development community have widely used the phrase “rural development”, what constitutes rural development seems to have changed significantly overtimes. Until the 1970s, rural development was synonymous with agricultural development and hence focused on increasing agricultural...
What Constitutes Evidence of Discrimination in Lending? We analyze a simple model of bank lending in order to ascertain what can be inferred from relative denial and default rates about lending discrimination. We show that if minority applicants are of lower average creditworthiness than majo... ...
Age-friendly initiatives are increasingly promoted as a policy solution to healthy aging, The primary objective of this article was to examine older adults' and key stakeholders' perceptions of the factors that either help or hinder a community from becoming age-friendly in the context of rural Ma...
different views have been adopted on what constitutes social complexity and which specific cognitive skills are selected for. Notably, many avian species form “open” groups as non-breeders (i.e., seasonally and before sexual maturity) that have been largely ignored as potential sources of social...
However, there is limited guidance about what constitutes a liveable city from a LMIC perspective, with most of the evidence relating to high-income countries, such as Australia. Existing liveability frameworks include features such as public transport, affordable housing, and public open space; ...
There is systematic evidence that community-based education is effective in the recruitment of rural physicians to remote communities. However, various obstacles may exist that prevent rural physicians from sustaining their mentoring activities. The aim of this study was to explore ways for rural physic...
understand media reports about advancement of genomic research, or participate in public policy discussions relating to the role of genomics in society.1 Even the very defi- nition of "genomics" versus "genetics," or of what constitutes a "genomically literate public" remains to be fully arti...
“everything which is artificial is natural” (Mill,1874). Regarding this definition, both these claims are perfectly right (“arts is but the employment of the powers of nature for an end” (Mill,1874)), even if, given so, this constitutes a non-information as nothing real at all can...