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The countryside, the rural area, the open space, ... many definitions are used for rural Flanders. Everyone makes its own interpretation of the countryside, considering it as a place for living, working or recreating. The countryside is more than just a geographical area: it is an aggregate of...
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of the arguments that have been raised during the debate is that Scotland is in a worse demographic situation than RUK …-regional OLG-CGE model for Scotland, the rest of the UK (RUK) and the rest of the World (ROW). The model is used to evaluate the … two scenarios: the status quo and the independence scenarios. The status quo scenario assumes that Scotland stays part of …
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between HEIs and other activities using a modified HEI-disaggregated input-output model of Scotland. The results suggest that …
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The Scottish Referendum of September 2014 was the setting for arguments regarding Scotland's strengths and weaknesses …, and projections of what could happen in different scenarios. Areas of debate included those on Scotland's scientific … autonomy if Scotland decided to stay part of the UK. This paper outlines the perception of Scotland as a strong scientific and …
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A number of powerful forces have produced uneven opportunities for occupational advancement in Scotland. Edinburgh as … social and occupational mobility. One would certainly anticipate that this is true compared with the urban areas in Scotland …, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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The idea that living in a deprived neighbourhood negatively affects the occupational mobility of residents has been embraced enthusiastically by many policy makers and academics. As a result, area based initiatives are now widely used to improve an individual's life course through the...
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Throughout the second half of the 20th Century, urbanization, new technologies, rapid labor-saving productivity growth in primary industries, and improved highways combined to create large-scale rural-urban functionally integrated regions. These forces have raised the stakes for regions in their...
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