This review describes advances over the past decade in what is known about the individual
experience of unemployment, predictors of reemployment, and interventions to speed …

Abstract The Bourdieusian and Putnamian traditions guide scientific debate on social capital
at international level. Nevertheless, the recent literature by non-Western scholars has …

A key challenge of land-use modelling for supporting sustainable land management is to
understand how environmental feedback that emerges from land-use actions can reshape …

This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social
networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed …

Combating long-term unemployment remains a central strand of policies to promote social
and labour market inclusion. One area of increasing concern is that the long-term …

Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network
perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and …

This paper compares paths to employment (job-finding) in prosperous cities and
economically-stressed rural communities in Canada. Since the pioneering work of …

Managing peri-urban areas is complicated due to the unique rural and urban characteristics
and because sectorial policies are not always compatible. In Mexico City, peri-urban spaces …

This article provides a review of existing research on youth transitions within regional,
remote and rural communities. Results were organised according to the Systems Theory …

Job loss and unemployment are among the worst stressors that people can encounter
during their lifetimes, and the search for (re-) employment is often a process troubled with …