Essays about: "Rural-urban"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 77 essays containing the word Rural-urban.

  1. 1. Vargen – ”en syndabock för större socioekonomiska problem” : en kritisk diskursanalys av nyhetsrapporteringen av varg på lokal och rikstäckande nivå

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Märtha Lindberg; [2023]
    Keywords : diskursanalys; landsbygd; media; varg; representationer;

    Abstract : Uppsatsens syfte är att kritisk granska och analysera nyhetsrapporteringen av rovdjursdiskursen för att urskilja hur olika maktstrukturer mellan stad och land syns och reproduceras i porträtteringen. Särskilt fokus ligger i den mediala bilden av landsbygd i vargfrågan där traditionella diskurser om landsbygd kan reproduceras snarare än utmanas i frågan. READ MORE

  3. 2. "A Norrland before, and a Norrland after?" : Exploring re-industrialization, as an example of green growth, through the reproduction of space and planetary urbanization in Northern Sweden.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Oskarsson; [2023]
    Keywords : green growth; re-industrialization; Norrland; Northern Sweden; production of space; planetary urbanization;

    Abstract : The dominant discourse often presents green growth as a solution to the ongoing environmental and climate crisis. However, it exists an unclear understanding of what green growth means in various contexts. READ MORE

  4. 3. TELEHEALTH BEYOND DISPARITIES & DIVIDES : Rural care practitioners’ adoption  of telehealth: a case study

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Shazada Cheema; Emelie Robertsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Digital Literacy; HCI; Rural Healthcare; Rural Urban Divide; Telehealth; Telemedicine; Usability; User Experience; UX-design;

    Abstract : Telehealth in rural and underserved areas are increasing rapidly due to centralization and cutbacks in healthcare. Since many telehealth studies has a patient-centered focus or organizational perspectives, we find a gap in research regarding practitioners' view in the unique contexts of rural areas. READ MORE

  5. 4. Could Tax Incidence Help Explain the Yellow Vest Movement? Evidence from France on tax incidence and heterogeneous effects of carbon and fuel taxation along the rural-urban spectrum

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Ann-Charlott Pahl; Anton Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Carbon tax; Fuel tax; Tax incidence; Distributional effects; Difference-in-differences;

    Abstract : There is a general consensus amongst economists that taxing carbon emissions is an efficient policy tool for combating climate change. To fully understand the thorny issues surrounding the political economy and distributional effects of carbon taxation, more attention should be paid to the rural-urban dimension. READ MORE

  6. 5. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE