It has been recognized that China's targeted poverty alleviation policy can greatly improve
the economic development of rural areas, but whether it can improve rural resilience for …

Many regional and rural economies are suffering from serious economic decline. Small
towns face considerable economic development challenges, including dwindling …

This paper draws on the emerging field of evolutionary economic geography to offer insights
into the transformation of rural economies. In particular, it focuses on the concepts of path …

This paper, through a case study of the Gengche Township in north Jiangsu (Subei), unveils
how a less-favored region breaks out of the old industry path of waste recycling and …

This paper explores how musical performance and expression catalyse rural cultural
resourcefulness amidst uncertainty and change. We describe and then challenge …

Different political and economic contexts are shaping how resource royalties/revenues are
collected and distributed back into the regions from which the resources are extracted …

The regional bioeconomy has great importance for generating socio-economic impacts,
especially in sparsely populated resource peripheries. The benefits include increased …

Much debated in the early 2000s, the productivist/post-productivist transition is revisited from
an Antipodean perspective from where it was variously both strongly adopted and vigorously …

Although the world has experienced rapid urbanization, rural areas have always been and
are still an important research field in human geography. This paper performed a …

It is increasingly acknowledged that effective management of water resources requires a
holistic understanding of the coevolving dynamics inherent in the coupled human‐hydrology …