Rural mobilities: Connecting movement and fixity in rural places

Mobilities in rural Africa: new connections, new challenges

Fluid interdependencies of mobility – physical and virtualare growing rapidly in subSaharan Africa: the remarkable expansion of mobile phone networks is bringing a tangible new dimension of connectivity into mobility, transport and access equations on the ground. This article draws on in-depth field research, including co-investigation with two groups often disadvantaged in their physical mobil...

Between places: Indigenous mobility in remote and rural Australia

Aging in Rural Places: Policies, Programs, and Professional Practice.

According to current statistics (USDA, 2015), nonmetro populations are seeing a 4-year trend of declining population(s). Although this decline in residents has not been equitably distributed across all of rural America, this tendency has a direct correlation to the foundational message of Aging in Rural Places, and how this migration in rural areas is impacting older adults, aging in place, car...

Health services at risk in "vulnerable" rural places.

$ State governmentCOffices of rural health can use this method to identify places in their states that they should target with programs designed to support health care providers. These might include loan repayments as financial incentives, technical assistance to providers to help them achieve efficiencies within the constraints of lower revenues, incentives to establish regional systems of car...

A Grand Challenge: Connecting the World's Rural Village