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View article: Agrarian transitions in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga province, South Africa: understanding dynamics and determinants
Agrarian transitions in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga province, South Africa: understanding dynamics and determinants Open
In the coming decades, smallholder agriculture in the Global South will experience significant transformations due to environmental challenges, urbanization and demographic shifts. Although current research offers valuable perspectives on …
View article: Resilience and Coping Strategies in Rural South Africa during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study of Livelihoods, Food Security, and Socioeconomic Determinants
Resilience and Coping Strategies in Rural South Africa during the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Study of Livelihoods, Food Security, and Socioeconomic Determinants Open
Considerable attention has been given to the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily focusing on urban settings, while little research has examined the effects on rural communities. This study investigated the impact of …
View article: Environmental migration and non-migration: Learning through an intergenerational lens
Environmental migration and non-migration: Learning through an intergenerational lens Open
Although migration–environment scholarship has experienced tremendous advancement in the past two decades, it continues to lack a historical perspective. This article proposes an integration of historical context into a conceptual framewor…
View article: Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Patterns and trends in household food security in rural Mpumalanga Province, South Africa Open
This study examines patterns and trends in household food security in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, from 2010 to 2019. We use data from a household panel nested in the Agincourt Health and Socio- Demographic Surveillanc…
View article: PLURAL - Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018
PLURAL - Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018 Open
PLURAL (Place-level urban-rural indices) is a framework to create continuous classifications of "rurality" or "urbanness" based on the spatial configuration of populated places. PLURAL makes use of the concept of "remoteness" to characteri…
View article: Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018
Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018 Open
Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, and social processes across the rural-urban continuum. Most existing classifications are, however, only available at relatively aggregated spat…
View article: Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory?
Time to Mainstream the Environment into Migration Theory? Open
As with all social processes, human migration is a dynamic process that requires regular theoretical reflection. This article offers such reflection as related to the role of the natural environment in contemporary migration research and t…
View article: Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018
Place-level urban-rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018 Open
Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, and social processes across the rural-urban continuum. Most existing classifications are, however, only available at relatively aggregated spat…
View article: A fine-grained, versatile index of remoteness to characterize place-level rurality
A fine-grained, versatile index of remoteness to characterize place-level rurality Open
Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, or socioeconomic processes across the rural-urban continuum. However, existing county-level classifications may ignore the within-county variat…
View article: Rural Population Health and Aging: Introduction to the Special Issue.
Rural Population Health and Aging: Introduction to the Special Issue. Open
This special issue of the Journal of Rural Social Sciences (JRSS) focuses on rural population health and aging. It showcases the work of scholars from several backgrounds and social science disciplines to advance knowledge in a critical fi…
View article: Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in Polygenic Associations for Health among Older Adults in the United States.
Exploring Rural-Urban Differences in Polygenic Associations for Health among Older Adults in the United States. Open
This paper contributes to research on health disparities among rural and urban residents by considering differences in the magnitude of genetic associations for physical health, mental health, and health behaviors across the two settings. …
View article: The Future of International Migration: Developing Expert-Based Assumptions for Global Population Projections
The Future of International Migration: Developing Expert-Based Assumptions for Global Population Projections Open
This paper explores alternative future trajectories of international migration by applying amultiregional flow model to a new set of estimates of global bilateral migration flowsdeveloped by the second author. The innovations in population…
View article: Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer's toolkit
Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer's toolkit Open
In recent years, the empirical literature linking environmental factors and human migration has grown rapidly and gained increasing visibility among scholars and the policy community. Still, this body of research uses a wide range of metho…
View article: A portfolio perspective of rural livelihoods in Bushbuckridge, South Africa
A portfolio perspective of rural livelihoods in Bushbuckridge, South Africa Open
Land-based income streams, which include the consumption and selling of crops, livestock and environmental products, are inherent in rural households’ livelihoods. However, the off-farm cash income stream – primarily composed of migrant la…
View article: Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s
Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s Open
The unique health and aging challenges of rural populations often go unnoticed. In fact, the rural United States is home to disproportionate shares of older and sicker people, there are large and growing rural–urban and within-rural mortal…
View article: Variation by Geographic Scale in the Migration-Environment Association: Evidence from Rural South Africa
Variation by Geographic Scale in the Migration-Environment Association: Evidence from Rural South Africa Open
Scholarly understanding of human migration’s environmental dimensions has greatly advanced in the past several years, motivated in large part by public and policy dialogue around “climate migrants”. The research presented here advances cur…
View article: Internal and International Mobility as Adaptation to Climatic Variability in Contemporary Mexico: Evidence from the Integration of Census and Satellite Data
Internal and International Mobility as Adaptation to Climatic Variability in Contemporary Mexico: Evidence from the Integration of Census and Satellite Data Open
Migration provides a strategy for rural Mexican households to cope with, or adapt to, weather events and climatic variability. Yet prior studies on environmental migration in this context have not examined the differences between choices o…