the agricultural sector was affected by climate change more than every other sectors, because it is close to nature. in other words, the effects of climate change were been on the farmers’ livelihood. farmers need to entrepreneurial changes for adaptation to climate change in their livelihood. hence, investigation of farmers’ entrepreneurial behavior in response to climate change was the main p...

INTRODUCTION If climate change is the 21st Century's biggest public health threat, research faces the major challenge of providing adequate evidence for vulnerable communities to adapt to the health effects of climate change. Available information about best practice in climate adaptation suggests it is inclusive of socio-economic disadvantage and local community factors such as access to healt...

In spite of rapid urbanization in most parts of the world over the past two decades, rural development remains a major challenge for developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. According to a recent World Bank report, “75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most are involved in farming.” There is also new urgency for addressing rural problems generated by population ...

BACKGROUND Weight loss is challenging and maintenance of weight loss is problematic among midlife and older rural women. Finding effective interventions using innovative delivery methods that can reach underserved and vulnerable populations of overweight and obese rural women is a public health challenge. METHODS/DESIGN This Women Weigh-In for Wellness (The WWW study) randomized-controlled tr...

INTRODUCTION Nearly half of rural residents in the USA have at least one chronic condition, and meeting the complex needs of these individuals has become a challenge for the current healthcare system. A self-management approach enables individuals with chronic illnesses to gain skills needed to improve the management of their conditions. Rural areas have a higher proportion of individuals who a...

the rural waste management is as an innovation and its aim is to discontinue or adverse rural waste effects on rural inhabitants’ health. the effect of communication channels and information resources are inevitable issues for adoption of waste management. this may change and improve knowledge, attitude and skill toward rural inhabitants and also implementation of rural waste management. conseq...

Thispaper intends to explore current trends of rural development and rural policies in the light of the approaching EU accession; and tries to give some concrete recommendations to Hungarian policy makers. Westate that, the EU policies communicate rather contradictory messages, urgingfor centralisation (institutional, legislative) and continued subsidies for industrial agriculture on the one ha...

The spatial deconcentration of population during the 20th century and the resulting expansion of human settlements has been a significant cause of anthropogenic landscape change in the United States and many other countries. In the seven-state North Central Region, as in other regions of the US, changing human settlement patterns are most prominent at the outlying fringe of metropolitan areas a...

[1] Monthly mean surface air temperature data from 463 meteorological stations, including those from the 1981–2007 ordinary and national basic reference surface stations in east China and from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) Reanalysis, are used to investigate the effect of rapid urbanization on temperature change. These...

This thesis brings together a series of existing and ongoing pieces of research, conductedover a period of some years. There are five primary aims.The first is to construct a coherent empirical picture of the social organisation of spacein rural South Australia by the early 1980s, at the outset of a period of turmoil and rapidchange. The second is to bring together two relevant ...