scholarly journals Assessing Educational Pathways for Manufacturing in Rural Communities: Research Findings and Implications from an Investigation of New and Existing Programs in Northwest Florida

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Mardis ◽  
Faye Jones
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Educational Pathways ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Northwest Florida

scholarly journals Assessing Land Use Planning Tools to Mitigate Odour and Lighting Nuisance Related to Cannabis Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Pugliese ◽  
Jordan Scholten ◽  
Samantha Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Planning Policies

Cannabis production has expanded significantly across southern Ontario with the legalisation of theindustry. Much of this expansion has occurred within the rural countryside, through the utilisation of existinggreenhouse infrastructure. While the growth of this sector provides economic benefits to rural communities, complaints from adjacent residents related to lighting and odour issues are common and mitigation of such issues is complex. Land use planning policies have been established across southern Ontario to manage the development of cannabis greenhouses; however, policies vary by region and countyand the appropriateness of these policies have not been tested. This study seeks to analyse municipalplanning policies that regulate cannabis production and understand the impacts of these policies on sector,adjacent land owners and rural communities. Planning policies will be analysed at the municipal, regional orcounty level, with the creation of a database to highlight consistency and differences between communities. Case studies will be utilised to gain better insights into the challenges and opportunities related to cannabis production and planning mitigation. This presentation will provide a summary of current research findings, including highlights of a municipal scan of zoning by-law policies and informalinsights into policy appeals in southern Ontario.

Tourism Collaborative Governance and Rural Community Development in Finland: The Case of Vuonislahti

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parhad Keyim
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Village

Tourism is recognized as a potential development mechanism for peripheral rural communities encountering various changes and challenges. However, a relatively unexplored theme in previous studies is that tourism’s potential benefits to rural communities are affected by rural development policies and practices: specifically, a collaborative governance approach. Based on a case study from Vuonislahti, a peripheral locale in the municipality of Lieksa, Finland, this article frames a community tourism collaborative governance approach. The study suggests that the village community receives limited tourism benefits because of various constraints rooted in the specific socioeconomic and institutional settings of the village and beyond. However, the struggle to formulate a fair and effective community tourism collaborative governance approach may bring positive socioeconomic benefits to the village and to other similarly declining rural communities in Finland and beyond. The approach is conceptually tentative in nature and its theoretical development needs to be complemented with additional research findings from empirical case studies conducted in diverse rural socioeconomic and institutional contexts of countries under different regimes.

scholarly journals Interpreting Food Security Research Findings With Rural South African Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Angela McIntyre ◽  
Sheryl L Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
South African ◽  
Nutrition Transition ◽  
Adult Obesity ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Childhood Stunting

INTRODUCTION: The presence of concurrent childhood stunting and adult obesity observed in poor, rural, former homeland communities in South Africa appears to be explained by nutrition transition, but the factors shaping rural food security are still poorly understood. Localized constraints and capabilities are often overlooked by food security policies, strategies and programs. Grounding food security data in local contexts is often a missing step in the diagnosis of food insecurity.AIMS: This qualitative study aimed to engage members of poor rural communities in generating a more grounded, localized understanding of food insecurity.METHOD: Members of South Africa’s poorest rural communities were asked to validate and interpret food production, consumption and nutrition data from a three-year, multidisciplinary food security study, with the aid of graphic presentations to overcome literacy barriers.RESULTS: Interpretations of food security research findings by communities revealed unique local experiences and understandings of food insecurity.CONCLUSION: Engaging people in the joint diagnosis of their food security challenges generates information on the environmental, economic and cultural conditions that shape experiences of hunger and influence nutrition outcomes, which are not always captured by conventional food security analyses. More inclusive and participatory research could support the design of more effective food security interventions in marginalized rural communities.

Remote rural community perceptions of ethical psychological practice

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Weier ◽  
Graham Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Community Perceptions ◽  
Repertory Grid Technique ◽  
Psychological Practice ◽  
Professional Workers ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Grid Technique ◽  
Pastoral Counselling

AbstractAll residents bar one of an isolated rural Australian town were interviewed to obtain their understandings of psychologists' roles vis a vis other professional workers' roles in rural communities, confidentiality expectations and limits to confidentiality, and overlaps between psychologists' professional and their other non-professional social roles. Data were gathered using a Kellian repertory grid technique and analysed using a multidimensional scaling technique. The results indicated that residents construed the psychologist's role as being different from other health or pastoral-counselling professionals' roles. Residents reported a complex array of opinions regarding the application of confidentiality standards, and limits to confidentiality, although all reported that limits to confidentiality should exist. Although residents reported and accepted that psychologists engage in a variety of non-professional, social roles in small rural communities, they also expected that psychologists would clearly differentiate between their professional role and their non-professional roles. Results overall were consistent with research findings with urban residents and with the professional code and guidelines.

scholarly journals A Transdisciplinary Methodology for Introducing Solar Water Disinfection to Rural Communities in Malawi—Formative Research Findings

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Morse ◽  
Kondwani Luwe ◽  
Kingsley Lungu ◽  
Levison Chiwaula ◽  
Wapulumuka Mulwafu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Formative Research ◽  
Water Disinfection ◽  
Solar Water ◽  
Solar Water Disinfection ◽  
Research Findings

scholarly journals Participatory Process for Regenerating Rural Areas through Heritage-Led Plans: The RURITAGE Community-Based Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5212
Author(s):  
Claudia de Luca ◽  
Javier López-Murcia ◽  
Elisa Conticelli ◽  
Angela Santangelo ◽  
Michelle Perello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Planning Methodology

Rural areas in Europe host more than 55% of the overall population and embed a unique and peculiar cultural and natural heritage. Nevertheless, they are facing common issues of disengagement, depopulation and economic and social crises. Rural communities are increasingly interested in setting up inclusive and participatory regeneration processes, but participatory planning experiences in rural areas are still limited. This paper introduces the Community-based Heritage Management and Planning methodology (CHMP) developed within the RURITAGE project, and analyzes and presents the results of its implementation in six demonstrators around Europe and beyond. The methodology is based on the establishment of Rural Heritage Hubs (RHH), intended as the community of local stakeholders and a physical place to run the co-creation activities. We used four types of feedback—online survey, in-presence survey, consultations and interviews with RHH Coordinators—to analyze the implementation of the CHMP. The research findings show that through built capital (RHH places activated) and through the activation of local social and human capitals (RHH communities engaged in the process), participatory processes can attract local communities and engage them into the development and the implementation of local regeneration plans, fostering heritage ownership and inclusion.

Life and Folklore of “Nonexistent” Villages

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Марина Власова ◽  
Marina Vlasova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Research Findings

The paper summarizes the research findings in the project “Folklore of “nonexistent” villages (features and contexts of existence)”. The highlight of the research project is preservation and continuity of folk art, people's memories amidst the radical changes in the traditional way of life in households and the outlook of people from the northern Russian rural communities. The in-depth and complex, connected with diverse areas of folklore, ethnography and history, this study of remote and “unpromising” villages broadens and refines our understanding of the current socio-economic status of Russian northern settlements, the spiritual culture and mentality of one of the indigenous groups – the Pomors.

Fishing for community and culture: the value of fisheries in rural Alaska

Polar Record ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davin Holen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cook Inlet ◽  
Bristol Bay ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural Alaska ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Subsistence Fishing

ABSTRACTIn Alaska, fishing provides important economic and socio-cultural benefits for rural communities. This paper presents some of the findings from a research project that investigated the role of commercial and subsistence fishing in the maintenance of economic and social viability, and the ways in which residents of rural communities in Alaska value fishing. Three rural fishing communities in Alaska served as case studies for this project: Chenega Bay in Prince William Sound, Kokhanok in Bristol Bay, and Tyonek in Cook Inlet. In all three communities, both old and young residents note that younger people are not participating in fishing as much as they did in the past, and there is concern that fishing traditions will not continue. However, research findings show how important fishing is as a social, cultural, and community activity for families. Residents noted fishing provided for a quality of life that included values associated with family, community, culture, and freedom.

Economic Change, Family Cohesion, And Mental Health in a Rural Hawai'i Community

1996 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon K. Matsuoka ◽  
Melanie Benson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
Preventive Mental Health ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Future Economic Development

Economic development in Hawai'i is generally based on a movement from agriculture (e.g., pineapple, sugar) to resorts and tourist-related activities. Tourism tends to change the complexion of rural communities and ultimately affects family structure and dynamics. The authors present a case study on the island of Lana'i, Hawai'i, which is undergoing economic changes that pose major challenges for agrarian families. The research findings indicated a clear relationship between family cohesion and mental health status. The results of this study provide a basis for designing preventive mental health strategies and making responsible policy decisions regarding future economic development.

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