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Det andra utanförskapet? Om social exkludering på landsbygden

Bäckman, Olof; Nilsson, Anders - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2008

That living conditions differ between urban and rural areas is often taken for granted. But what does it look like when we explore more manifest indicators of social exclusion and marginalization? Are these problems present also in rural areas? And if so, does the character of such problems...

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Challenges for the Local Communities

W, Erik - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2001

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Regionförstoring - idé, mätproblem och framtidsutsikter

Amcoff, Jan - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2007

Since the early 2000s regional enlargement (“regionförstoring”) has become an important objective in the Swedish regional policy. Smaller regions are intended to be functionally integrated into larger neighbours through intensified commuting. This strive is facilitated by the fact that the...

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Regionala obalanser -ett demografiskt perspektiv

Korpi, Martin - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2003

Föreliggande artikel bygger på två regionala befolkningsframskrivningar, den ena av Landstingsförbundet (2000), den andra av Nygren och Person (2001). Dessa visar att nu som tidigare beror regionernas befolkningsmässiga framtid till största del av de flyttningsantaganden som görs. De...

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Regional befolkningsomfördelning bland unga och gamla

Amcoff, Jan - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2004

Efter några decennier av måttlig befolkningsomfördelning i Sverige gav 1990-talets andra hälft tydligt prov på en geografisk koncentration av befolkningen. Här argumenteras för att befolkningsomfördelningen bör undersökas på en geografisk nivå med samma höga upplösningsgrad som...

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Leaving Rurality Behind. Re-orientation of spatial policies in Sweden.

Westholm, Erik - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2003

The paper will address the changing status of rural regions in policy formation in Sweden. Two basic processes are at work. First, decades of out-migration have given many rural regions a demographic structure, which is causing a self-propelling de-population. Secondly, the internationalisation...

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Det utmanade lokalsamhället

Westholm, Erik - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2001

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Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera

Amcoff, Jan - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2005

Though estimating rural population change at first glance seems simple, it in fact involves methodological difficulties and requires the accommodation of definitional ambiguities. This article addresses the matter of urban spillover in rural population development. Simply stated, "urban...

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Utsatthetens olika ansikten: Begreppsöversikt och analys

Alm, Susanne; Bäckman, Olof; Gavanas, Anna; Kumlin, Johanna - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2010

This paper has two purposes: the first is to give an introduction to and an analysis of the most important concepts for describing social disadvantage in contemporary Sweden – poverty, social exclusion and the concept “utanförskap”. The latter is difficult to give a proper English...

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Housing and first births in Sweden, 1972-2005

Ström, Sara - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2009

The aim of this study is to explore to what extent housing is a constraint for first births in Sweden 1972-2005. Three … characteristics of housing are studied: housing type, tenure, and size of dwelling. The occurrence of childbearing is measured as the … the size of the dwelling seems to be the housing factor with the strongest association with first-birth intensities. The …

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