Rural revitalization is not only a strategy to promote sustainable rural development in developing countries, but also an inevitable trend towards global urbanization. This study used multi-source ...data, such as remote sensing images, building data, official websites and field survey, to investigate the morphological and social evolution of rural communities from the perspective of touristification and to analyze their drivers. The results showed that from 1988 to 2016, the selected sample case (Jinshitan scenic area, a tourist location situated in the Liaodong Peninsula in China) experienced continuous increases in the average weighted building height, building volume and floor area ratio; the proportion of non-agricultural employment increased by 99.57%; and tourism has become the leading industry in the research site, with a tenfold value of agricultural output value during touristification. These data lend support to that rural revitalization strategy is beneficial to non-urban communities in terms of their economic development and growth in China. Findings provided managerial implications suggesting the local government should implement tourism-related development projects to enhance rural tourism activities to develop the local economy and increase employment.
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This research describes the individualization of convict coaching and the special penitentiary for certain convicts. It also analyzes the understanding required to revitalize convicts' correctional ...facilities, which assess changes in treatment regarding those with "good behavior." Furthermore, this research examined the possibility of revitalizing convicts' penitentiary to focus on the security approach. When the basic concept of the revitalization of the penitentiary is focused on the level of "treatment," which is based on the assessment criteria of "good behavior of the convicts," the convicts are placed in the penitentiary with minimum security. Furthermore, this change assesses the ability to change the existing treatment system for convicts. This is normative legal research, with data obtained from primary and secondary legal materials through literature study. The results showed that the individualization of coaching rests on the fact of the convicts' heterogeneity based on their classification, which affects the type of coaching applied. This variety of coaching affects the facilities and infrastructure needed therefore it is based on the heterogeneity of convicts the need special Penitentiary.
Research into sustainable translanguaging has begun to address teacher and community concern around the use of translanguaging practices in the quest to revitalize and maintain vulnerable languages. ...The current article adds to this discussion through an empirical examination of translanguaging practices in te reo Māori and Samoan early childhood educational environments in New Zealand. Both communities have valid concerns and face their own challenges regarding protecting the vitality of these languages, and this has a major impact upon the work that we need to do to ensure we are making use of socially responsive translanguaging to support language revitalization and maintenance efforts.
The current article presents results of our school-based ethnographies with Māori and Samoan communities in the Wellington region of New Zealand 2017–2019, as well as the pedagogical translanguaging rules that we developed based on this research. We first present our findings of spontaneous translanguaging within these educational spaces. Then, we explain how we applied these findings to the creation of translingual teaching materials for these spaces. Finally, we discuss how these resources contribute to a socially responsive translanguaging pedagogy and the importance of this for marginalized communities.
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Purpose: The study sought to examine the impact of institutional textiles research on the textile industry in Ghana to make feasible projections towards the effective implementation of research ...findings for the revitalization and sustainability of the Ghana textile industry.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Adopting the quantitative evaluation research methods with questionnaires and interviews as the main instrumentation for data collection. Purposive sampling and stratified random sampling techniques were used to select 142 respondents. Though, only 54 respondents participated in the research.. The data was analysed descriptively using frequency.
Findings: The study revealed that despite the upsurge of research works with concrete and feasible recommendations in curbing the challenges of the textile factories, the lack of industry/academia collaboration is what impedes the effective implementation of these research findings to address the issues.
Research Limitation: The study focused on two major large-scale textile factories in Ghana; Tex Styles Ghana Limited (TGL) and Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) alongside research publications of Ghanaian institutions of high repute like KNUST, Takoradi Technical University, University of Education, University of Cape Coast and the University of Ghana were targeted for the study.
Practical Implication: There should be a strong partnership between industry and academia through collaborative research, a policy on the implementation of research findings, allocation of funds for textile researchers and a monitoring system by the government to ensure full implementation of research findings.
Social Implication: The study, therefore, calls on the government to monitor these policies to ensure that they are in full effective operation and implemented to the highest peak.
Originality/ value: the findings of this study provide numerous recommendations by academic institutions of higher learning aimed at revamping the declining industry which when fully implemented will help boost the rise of the industries.
Railway transportation faces many of the issues that are related to standard brownfields - due to changing technologies and industries, more effective systems (of traffic control in this case) and ...evolving needs many of the areas are actually no longer necessary for proper function of the railway. That is especially prominent in the case of railway stations, where a significant number of the stations use just a portion of their available tracks, buildings and areas (for example for unloading or repair). The remaining areas are sometimes sporadically used, but more effective and conscious management of the station could fairly easily lead up to the release of these areas for another, more useful function for both the city and the station. This paper will explore the differences between “standard” brownfields and unused railway areas like the typical ownership structure, particular location within the city and the effect station has on the city structure, composition and topography of the areas or the fact that railway areas are most often never really fully abandoned and they do continue to serve in some, albeit diminished capacity. Paper also aims to map out how much of the railways areas are underused or unused in Czech Republic (country with highest rail network density in the world). This paper will then recommend the best ways to use and revitalize them and it will show some successful examples of revitalization projects from all around the world.
Although the expression "revitalisation" appears more frequently in the field of public policy, particularly in France since the mid-1990s, it remains unexplored by researchers. Often linked to ...territorial issues, revitalisation is a fuzzy concept, both in the field of public action and in scientific publications. Characterizing this process to discriminate it from other territorial dynamics is, however, a real academic and practical challenge to better support public policies by clarifying the elements of diagnosis, the roles of actors and the modalities of its implementation. Building on experiments carried out in several fields of territorial policies in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France), our interdisciplinary group of researchers has therefore set out to conceptualise the "territorial revitalisation" with an open perspective that is expected to be further developed through other experiences. This paper thus initiates a collective intelligence approach aiming at the co-construction of an evolving concept, based on studied and/or supported revitalisation experiences, with other researchers and actors taking part in such processes. Based on a synthesis of the knowledge, resulting from a cognitive analysis of the discourse on a specially prepared corpus, we set out the interdisciplinary approach that made it possible to articulate differentiated but complementary theoretical frameworks via a series of keys for reading the territory as a complex system. Our conceptualization of territorial revitalization is based on five principles, introduced by the case study on the deployment of the Techn'hom project in Belfort, from the 2000s to the present day. This example calls for further case studies to refine and make the concept operational.
One of the efforts to preserve Indonesian culture and heritage is through cultural tourism parks. Therefore, the existence of a cultural tourism park is very important because it has Indonesian ...cultural values. The problem currently faced by Indonesia, especially Malang City, East Java, is the number of new modern tourism parks that make cultural tourism parks less attractive. The rise number of modern tourism parks in Malang has reached 100% in the last 5 years, while there has been no addition of cultural parks in Malang. As what happened at the Senaputra Cultural Tourism Park, Malang that is famous as a park that preserves traditional culture, especially East Java culture. In the glorious era of Taman Senaputra in 1980s, traditional East Javanese dances and wayangkulit performances were often held. The research method used quantitative and qualitative research. First, through observation to determine the factual conditions of the research area using walkthrough analysis techniques. Second, through questionnaires to find out communities perceptions of preferences between modern parks compared to cultural parks and to find out the communities perception of the Senaputra cultural park main problems. The results of the questionnaire were processed using SPSS and analyzed using a linkert scale to determine the priority scale of main problems. The results of this study showing people preferences and perception index score of modern park 82.04% and cultural park 17.96%. The main problem of less preferences index score of cultural park is due to of the irregular landscape arrangement of the cultural park and does not have the characteristics of Javanese culture as a cultural park and author observation’s resulted that this park also lacks of maintenance and most of park elements are damaged, so there is a need for design directions from the landscape side which has the character of Javanese culture in an effort to revive (revitalize) the cultural tourism park so that it is again in demand and cultural values as the national identity are not forgotten and lost
The focus of this text is an area known as "Est de Montréal". This area had been associated with the petrochemical industry and other manufacturing sectors for much of the twentieth century. However, ...due to the crisis of Fordism and the development of the technology-based economy, this area progressively lost its productive assets, which provoked important impacts on jobs, services, and the quality of life for its residents. Such a decline has motivated an important mobilization for an economic reconversion oriented towards the socio-ecological transition. The text discusses the situation of the area, the issues at stake in the process of reconversion, the launching and orientations of a group of socioeconomic actors called “Alliance pour l’Est de Montréal”, the sources of inspiration for this group, as well as the elements of a strategy for ecological and societal transition in this important area of the city.
In recent years, the study of rural community resilience has become the focus of rural researchers in response to the decline of villages in the process of urbanization. However, current research on ...village resilience has mainly focused on the analysis and assessment of village resilience, while there is a lack of research on the resilience reconstruction of mountainous villages severely affected by urbanization. Taking Longtan village in Fujian Province, China, as an example, this paper describes how industrial transformation promotes community capital development and their impact on community resilience. It shows that the diversified participants in the industrial transformation process have fostered constructive dialogue, collective discussion, and self-governance. The widespread use of digital technology has helped communities to have the ability to learn and innovate, and has played an important role in promoting rural industrial transformation and community resilience. It argues that the improvement of human capital in the process of industrial transformation drives the “spiral” of community capital, and that the diversity and coupling among community capital promote the synergistic development of community capital and help communities rebuild resilience.
•Exploring the way to develop the resilience of mountainous rural communities.•Industrial transformation as a prerequisite for community capital enhancement.•Digital technology plays an important role in community resilience reconstruction.•Community empowerment contributes to a diversified rural construction entity.•Improving human capital is the key to rebuilding community resilience.
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Rural decline is an inevitable process as human society transforms from the agrarian to the urban-industrial economy, and further on to the knowledge economy. Through an extensive literature review, ...this paper aims to interpret why some rural areas decline while some others do not. The findings show that it is by the interactions between rural areas and the external environment that rural communities either grow, decline or even vanish. The paper emphasizes the necessity to improve rural communities' resilient capacity through adjusting their internal components' function and structure to survive the external changes. In this process, rural livelihood diversification, the creation of market oriented institutions and strong social capital are considered to enhance rural resilience and build up sustaining rural communities. Finally, three conditions for sustainable rural development in the knowledge economy are discussed: 1) development of new economic activities that can respond to potential urban demand; 2) local entrepreneurship that can establish and expand these new activities; and 3) social capital that can support the entrepreneurship in new activities with access to credits, labor, human capital, external markets and external knowledge for learning and innovation.
•Rural decline is an inevitable phenomenon as human society transforms.•Interactions between rural areas and the external environment decide rural evolution.•Rural communities' resilient capacity must be enhanced against external challenges.•Collaboration within & between local actor groups is needed for rural revitalization.
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