Rural settlement systems are social-ecological systems (SES) that possess various system attributes. At present, only a small number of studies quantitatively disclose the intricate relationships ...

Governments, NGOs, corporate CSR divisions, and international organizations regularly launch policies and programs with a ...

In many countries, rural areas are less developed than urban areas. They are often perceived as having many problems, such as low productivity, low education, and low income. Other issues include ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

The United States has more than 3,000 operational data centers, and that number is expected to grow substantially in the years ahead. More than 1,500 new data centers are in various stages of ...

Washington, D.C.’s metropolitan area has long hummed with data centers. The region, which encompasses much of Northern Virginia, has become known as Data ...

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...

Paul Toomey is the President of Geographic Solutions. He's an expert in labor market data, workforce development and unemployment insurance. I see workforce development in rural America at a ...

There are numerous challenges to providing high quality STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. Recognizing these challenges, the National Academies was directed to undertake a ...

MAKING A HISTORIC INVESTMENT IN RURAL HEALTHCARE: Today, President Donald J. Trump celebrated the largest ever investment in rural healthcare, enacted in his signature Working Families Tax Cuts Act.