Even South Africa’s remote sacred springs are not untouched: research found microplastics in all nine tested, including waters used for healing and drinking.
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Hundreds of thousands of rural families could lose their affordable homes as mortgages the program supported expire by 2050.
Rural communities are being asked to absorb reduced funding and limited flexibility in the NDIS. These changes risk widening the gap city and regional areas.
The Trump administration wants to abolish FEMA and hand disaster recovery over to states. But local officials are best positioned to help local people in a crisis.
The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far.
Social inclusion gives slum dwellers a voice to advocate for their rights and interests, leading to more inclusive and equitable policies and practices.
Due to limited interactions with the police, Kenyans in rural areas are less likely to see the police as relevant actors.
People living in rural areas perceive the threat of climate change to be lower than people in cities.
It’s about developing a community of practice: people who can work alongside scientists, taking science out of the laboratory and into the field.
Regional and inter-provincial travel have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in small and rural communities. Restricting people’s movement is more challenging than it seems on the surface.
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Extraordinary Associate Professor of Anthropology and Water Sciences, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brandon University, University of Guelph
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Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
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Lecturer, Crawford University
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Associate professor, Uppsala University
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Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant Professor of Public Administration, North Carolina State University
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Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship and Co-Founder of Umbo, University of Sydney
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Co-Director of Center for Urban Research, Director of Master of Science in Public Policy Program, & Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Instrument Scientist Freshwater Field and Lab Ecologist, National Research Foundation
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Research associate, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand