Settlement Size, Real Income, and the Rural Turnaround

The rural population turnaround: a case-study of North Devon.

The change from depopulation to population increase in the more remote rural areas of England is analyzed using data from a survey of 300 households in North Devon. The heterogeneous nature of the migrants and their reasons for migration are stressed. "The reasons for leaving the former area of residence tended to relate to lifestyle, personal or environmental factors whereas the reasons for ...

Higher Education, Real Income And Real Investment In The Selected OIC Members: Evidence From ARDL And Panel Data Approaches

The Impact of Urban and Rural Income Inequality on Natural Gas Consumption: The Case of Iran

T he environmental issues have received a lot of attention in recent years. Since environmental pollution is one of the issues that may damage the ability of future generations, it is important to examine the determinants of the environment quality. The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of urban and rural income inequality on natural gas consumption in Iran. To this...

The Investigation of Foreign trade effect on Income disturbance between each rural income deciles of Iran.

This paper investigated the foreign trade effect on Gini coefficient in each income deciles based on VAR and VCEM models. In connection with this, the time series data over the period 1369-1394 are employed. The results indicate that, in short –term, rising in foreign trade volume rising causes the Gini coefficient lessen in all income deciles; consequently, the income disturbance will be more ...

Extracting Rural Settlement Information from Quickbird Images

Acquiring the information for rural settlement timely and accurately has an important significance for construction and development of rural areas. The development of remote sensing technology provides advanced means of the acquirement of the information of settlement. The study of extracting rural settlement information from Quickbird images in Xindu district, Chengdu City, P.R.of China was di...