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Camino de Santiago's tourism impacts: Are resident perceptions shaped by rural-urban dynamics and personal pilgrimage experience? 圣地亚哥之路的旅游影响：城乡动态和个人朝圣经历是否塑造了居民的观念？

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103867

Francisco Carballo-Cruz, Luís Filipe Silva

In recent years, the iconic “Camino de Santiago” pilgrimage pathway has emerged as a significant tourist attraction. Despite its growing popularity and immense potential to promote local development in the communities along its path, little is known about this phenomenon from the residents' perspective. This study is among the first to examine residents' impact perceptions and support for Camino-related tourism. To this end, we introduce two innovative analytical approaches, focusing on the role of rural-urban dynamics and personal pilgrimage experiences in shaping these attitudes. A survey of 442 residents along the northern segment of the Central Portuguese Camino was conducted. Statistical analyses, including PLS-SEM, t-tests, and permutation multigroup comparisons, were employed to investigate relationships and differences in perceptions, support attitudes, and path coefficients among various resident groups. The findings reveal that perceptions of economic, environmental, and sociocultural impacts significantly influence residents' support for further development of Camino-related tourism. The relationship between economic impacts and support is significantly stronger for rural residents and those with pilgrimage experience. Perceptions of economic impacts and residents’ support are also stronger among rural residents compared to their urban counterparts. Additionally, residents with pilgrimage experience exhibited significantly more positive perceptions and attitudes across all dimensions. These findings suggest that tourism investments in rural areas along the Camino should be prioritised and that encouraging community participation should be a key strategy to increase their support.

近年来，标志性的“圣地亚哥之路”朝圣之路已经成为一个重要的旅游景点。尽管它越来越受欢迎，并有巨大的潜力促进沿线社区的当地发展，但从居民的角度来看，人们对这一现象知之甚少。这项研究是第一个调查居民对卡米诺相关旅游的影响认知和支持的研究。为此，我们引入了两种创新的分析方法，重点关注城乡动态和个人朝圣经历在形成这些态度中的作用。对葡萄牙中部卡米诺北段的442名居民进行了调查。统计分析，包括PLS-SEM， t检验和排列多组比较，用于调查不同居民群体在感知，支持态度和路径系数方面的关系和差异。研究结果显示，居民对经济、环境和社会文化影响的认知显著影响居民对卡米诺相关旅游进一步发展的支持。经济影响与支持的关系在农村居民和朝圣经历者中显著增强。与城市居民相比，农村居民对经济影响和居民支持的认知也更强。此外，有朝圣经历的居民在所有维度上都表现出更积极的看法和态度。这些研究结果表明，应优先考虑对卡米诺河沿岸农村地区的旅游投资，鼓励社区参与应成为增加他们支持的关键战略。

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Psychological factors that influence the nature-health relationship in the agricultural industry; insights for providing more effective mental health support to farmers 影响农业产业自然-健康关系的心理因素为农民提供更有效的心理健康支持的见解

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103934

B. Morris , K. Morris

Despite widespread evidence supporting the positive effects of nature on mental health, individuals working in the agricultural sector, particularly farmers, often experience elevated levels of psychological distress. This paper examines the apparent paradox wherein close physical proximity to nature does not always translate into psychological benefit for farmers. Drawing on theoretical frameworks such as Biophilia Hypothesis (Fromm, 1973), Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989), and Stress Reduction Theory (Ulrich, 1991), the study explores how occupational, cognitive, and emotional factors mediate the nature–health relationship in agricultural contexts. Key psychological mechanisms such as occupational identity, cognitive dissonance, emotional attachment to land, social isolation, and locus of control are explored to explain how farmers may become disconnected from nature, despite frequent exposure. The paper highlights how environmental stressors, shifting climate dynamics, and deeply embedded cultural narratives around resilience and self-sufficiency can limit the restorative potential of natural surroundings. Recommendations are made for adapting mental health interventions to be more context-sensitive, emphasising the importance of subjective nature connectedness, social capital, and adaptive psychological strategies. The findings underscore the need for a reconceptualisation of nature-based mental health support for farming populations that acknowledges both the symbolic and stress-laden meanings nature holds in this unique occupational setting.

尽管有广泛的证据支持自然对心理健康的积极影响，但在农业部门工作的个人，特别是农民，心理困扰程度往往较高。本文考察了明显的悖论，即接近自然并不总是转化为农民的心理利益。本研究借鉴了亲生物假说（Fromm, 1973）、注意恢复理论（Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989）和压力减轻理论（Ulrich, 1991）等理论框架，探讨了职业、认知和情感因素如何在农业背景下调解自然-健康关系。本文探讨了关键的心理机制，如职业认同、认知失调、对土地的情感依恋、社会隔离和控制点，以解释农民如何在频繁接触自然的情况下与自然脱节。本文强调了环境压力因素、不断变化的气候动态以及围绕复原力和自给自足的根深蒂固的文化叙事如何限制自然环境的恢复潜力。建议调整精神卫生干预措施，使其对环境更加敏感，强调主观性质联系、社会资本和适应性心理策略的重要性。研究结果强调，需要重新定义基于自然的农业人口心理健康支持，承认自然在这一独特的职业环境中所具有的象征意义和充满压力的意义。

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Atmospheres of spaces in transformation: A methods overview for spotting them in field research 变换中的空间气氛：野外研究中发现空间气氛的方法综述

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103921

Jan Grossarth , Thomas Daum

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Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion 农药抗药性与社区崩溃：农村解体与农业扩张的恶性循环

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103933

Katherine Dentzman, Samuel C.H. Mindes

Pesticide resistance has become a major problem in the United States and industrialized agriculture more broadly, impacting yield, profitability, conservation, and more. Solutions to the issue continue to evade farmers, researchers, and manufacturers. Evidence indicates that multiple management strategies are necessary, and Integrated Pest Management has been extensively researched and promoted. However, adoption remains reactive and minimal. A community approach shows promise to overcome these barriers and manage pesticide resistance at a landscape scale. Collaboration among farmers, extension educators, and the broader community of stakeholders has significant potential for addressing pesticide resistance, and collective action is a critical alternative to and partner for technological solutions. However, research from a pest management program in Iowa, which operates in and alongside several communities throughout the state, has found that not all communities respond to collective management approaches in the same way. While some community-based initiatives have thrived, others have failed to flourish despite significant outreach and support. We present findings from community pilot projects with the Iowa Pesticide Resistance Management Program, using social capital and entrepreneurial social infrastructure to interpret why several communities have struggled to coordinate despite efforts from extension educators and other stakeholders to support collective management. Finally, we discuss implications for future management including suggestions for how researchers, extension educators, and the stakeholder community can build capacity to manage collective problems.

农药抗性已经成为美国和工业化农业的一个主要问题，影响着产量、盈利能力、保护等。农民、研究人员和制造商仍然无法解决这个问题。证据表明，多种防治策略是必要的，有害生物综合防治已得到广泛研究和推广。然而，采用仍然是被动的和最小的。社区方法有望克服这些障碍，并在景观范围内管理农药耐药性。农民、推广教育工作者和更广泛的利益攸关方之间的合作具有解决农药耐药性问题的巨大潜力，集体行动是技术解决方案的重要替代方案和合作伙伴。然而，爱荷华州的一项害虫管理计划的研究发现，并不是所有的社区都以同样的方式对集体管理方法做出反应。该计划在该州的几个社区内开展，并与之一起开展。虽然一些以社区为基础的倡议蓬勃发展，但尽管有大量的外联和支持，其他倡议却未能蓬勃发展。我们介绍了爱荷华州农药抗性管理项目社区试点项目的研究结果，利用社会资本和创业型社会基础设施来解释为什么尽管推广教育者和其他利益相关者努力支持集体管理，但一些社区仍在努力协调。最后，我们讨论了对未来管理的影响，包括研究人员、扩展教育者和利益相关者社区如何建立管理集体问题的能力的建议。

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Synergies and trade-offs in the food-energy-water nexus of rural households: A case study in the North China Plain 农村家庭食物-能源-水关系的协同效应与权衡：以华北平原为例

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Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103931

Mengrong Wu , Gengyuan Liu , Richard Morris , Pablo Gregorini , Bojie Liu , Nan Zhang , Qipeng Deng , Duo Xu , Mingwan Wu , Hui Li

The sustainable management of food, energy, and water (FEW) resources is critical for rural development under China's Rural Revitalization Strategy. However, a systematic understanding of the household-level FEW nexus remains limited. This study addressed this gap by developing a system dynamic model to simulate household FEW consumptions for traditional households in the North China Plain from 2015 to 2060. The model was applied to evaluate 23 policy scenarios encompassing technological upgrades, behavioral changes, and spatial utilization of courtyards and rooftops. The results identified two priority policy pathways. The first includes interventions targeting critical nexus nodes to generate co-benefits, such as water-saving behaviors that reduce both water (−10.98 %) and energy use (−1.65 %), and dietary shifts that improve nutrition while saving energy. The second covers high-impact interventions that substantially alter FEW profiles, such as clean heating retrofits—which cut energy use by 49.21 %—and rooftop PV systems that enable electricity self-sufficiency. The integrated spatial use of courtyards and rooftops further enhances household level sustainability across food production, water harvesting, and energy generation. This study underscores the value of localized, multi-benefit interventions in designing equitable and sustainable rural development strategies, ultimately enhancing household resource efficiency and supporting low-carbon development.

在中国乡村振兴战略下，粮食、能源和水（FEW）资源的可持续管理对农村发展至关重要。然而，对家庭层面的少数人联系的系统理解仍然有限。本研究通过建立一个系统动态模型来模拟2015 - 2060年华北平原传统家庭的家庭FEW消费，从而弥补了这一空白。该模型用于评估23种政策情景，包括技术升级、行为变化以及庭院和屋顶的空间利用。研究结果确定了两条优先政策路径。第一类包括针对关键联系节点的干预措施，以产生协同效益，如节水行为，减少水（- 10.98%）和能源使用（- 1.65%），以及饮食改变，在节约能源的同时改善营养。第二部分涵盖了影响深远的干预措施，这些干预措施可以大幅改变少数几个方面的情况，比如清洁供暖改造——可以减少49.21%的能源使用——以及屋顶光伏系统，可以实现电力自给自足。庭院和屋顶的综合空间利用进一步提高了家庭层面的可持续性，包括粮食生产、集水和能源生产。本研究强调了在制定公平和可持续的农村发展战略、最终提高家庭资源效率和支持低碳发展方面，本地化、多利益干预措施的价值。

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Revealing the causes of inequality in rainstorm flood disaster resilience between town and rural areas in southwestern China: Based on natural and social system dimensions 基于自然和社会系统维度的西南地区城乡暴雨洪水抗灾能力差异成因分析

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103932

Zhangjie Li , Lihong Yang , Ling Zhu , Jing Tan , Zhiqiang Xie , Yudong Wang , Hong Zhang , Jinhang Xie , Songyun Cui , Shihan Bai , Zhiqun Hou

Amid global climate change and urbanization, the southwestern region of China is experiencing frequent heavy rainfall events. The complex natural environment, coupled with inequality in social development, has exacerbated the disparity in disaster recovery between town and rural areas. This study focuses on 24 towns and 115 rural areas in Yiliang County, Yunnan Province, and examines the rainstorm disaster cycle. A quantification framework for Rainstorm Flooding Disaster Resilience (RFDR) is developed for different town and rural units, along with a comprehensive evaluation system that integrates both natural and social dimensions. The CRITIC weighting method and weighted average approach are used to reveal RFDR inequality between town and rural areas, and spatial differentiation maps are generated using ArcGIS. The study found that: (1) Adverse natural conditions, particularly river density, terrain slope, and elevation differences, significantly influence the RFDR in the region; (2) Disparities in infrastructure, economy, and population structure exacerbate the inequality in RFDR between town and rural areas; (3) 44 % of town areas in the study region fall into high RFDR categories, while only 16 % of rural areas do. Additionally, rural RFDR is strongly positively correlated with the distance to nearby towns; (4) Town RFDR is 1.33 times higher than rural RFDR throughout the disaster cycle. The paper concludes with a discussion of the evolving RFDR inequality and offers recommendations for improvement, aiming to support local government efforts to reduce town-rural disaster disparities.

在全球气候变化和城市化进程中，中国西南地区暴雨频发。复杂的自然环境，加上社会发展的不平等，加剧了城乡灾后恢复的差距。本研究以云南省宜良县24个乡镇和115个农村为研究对象，考察了暴雨灾害周期。针对不同的城镇和农村单元，开发了暴雨洪水抗灾能力的量化框架，以及整合自然和社会维度的综合评估系统。采用CRITIC加权法和加权平均法揭示城乡RFDR差异，并利用ArcGIS生成空间分异图。研究发现：(1)不利的自然条件，特别是河流密度、地形坡度和高程差异对区域RFDR影响显著；(2)基础设施、经济和人口结构的差异加剧了城乡RFDR的不平等；(3)研究区44%的城镇地区属于高RFDR类别，而农村地区只有16%。此外，农村RFDR与到附近城镇的距离呈强正相关；(4)在整个灾害周期内，城镇RFDR是农村的1.33倍。本文最后讨论了不断演变的RFDR不平等，并提出了改进建议，旨在支持地方政府减少城乡灾害差异的努力。

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Mapping food practices in rural Italy: consumer diversity as a key to informing sustainable food policy 绘制意大利农村食品实践地图：消费者多样性是为可持续食品政策提供信息的关键

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103852

Maddalena Cirani , Perrine Vandenbroucke , Francesca Forno , Anna Marie Nicolaysen

The global food system looms as a major contributor to a wide range of increasingly threatening sustainability challenges which encompass the environment, human health, justice and ethics. Hitherto food policy has relied on behavioural theories to encourage consumers towards sustainable food practices, albeit with limited success. This study delves into consumers’ daily choices and attitudes to food, using theory of practice as a framework. Designed as a case study located in the Valle dei Laghi biodistrict, Italy, thirty-six semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions were conducted with consumers and producers. Direct observation was used to enhance the validity and credibility of the results. In addition to the food citizen and passive consumer widely discussed in literature, the existence of two additional consumer profiles, termed the pragmatic consumer and the tradition-driven consumer, was identified. The pragmatic consumer, despite an understanding of sustainability related issues, adopts food choices rooted in convenience and opportunism. The tradition-driven consumer, in contrast, deploys unconsciously highly sustainable practices that can be traced back to the notion of quiet sustainability. In this article we discuss the significance of these findings for the design of policy interventions tailored to sustain a transformation towards sustainable food systems and propose practice-oriented policy measures to adjust and complement current policy.

全球粮食系统是造成环境、人类健康、正义和道德等一系列威胁日益严重的可持续性挑战的主要因素。迄今为止，食品政策一直依靠行为理论来鼓励消费者采取可持续的食品做法，尽管成效有限。本研究以实践理论为框架，深入探讨消费者对食物的日常选择和态度。作为一个位于意大利Valle dei Laghi生物区的案例研究，对消费者和生产者进行了36个带有开放式问题的半结构化访谈。为了提高结果的效度和信度，采用了直接观察的方法。除了文献中广泛讨论的食品公民和被动消费者外，还确定了另外两种消费者概况的存在，即实用主义消费者和传统驱动型消费者。务实的消费者，尽管理解可持续发展相关的问题，采用植根于方便和机会主义的食品选择。相比之下，传统驱动的消费者无意识地部署了高度可持续的做法，这些做法可以追溯到安静可持续的概念。在本文中，我们讨论了这些研究结果对设计政策干预措施的意义，以维持向可持续粮食系统的转变，并提出了以实践为导向的政策措施，以调整和补充当前的政策。

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China's agricultural upgrade: Digital inclusive finance driving high-quality development 中国农业升级：数字普惠金融驱动高质量发展

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103927

Liangen Zeng , Yuangdong Zou , Yisha Fu , Yangfeng Jiang , Xiaoyan Zhang , Linlin Dai , Yiqing Su

High-quality agricultural development (HQAD) is crucial for the sustainable growth of human society. Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces spanning 2011 to 2022, this article explores the influence of digital inclusive finance (DIF) on HQAD. The key findings are as follows: (1) China's HQAD increased progressively during this period, but exhibited a pronounced coastal-inland divergence, reflecting spatial heterogeneity. (2) DIF significantly promotes HQAD, a finding that holds after a series of robustness checks. (3) The effect of DIF on HQAD varies by region, with DIF having a more substantial impact in major grain-producing areas. (4) Furthermore, the relationship between DIF and HQAD demonstrates clear non-linear characteristics. (5) As urbanization increases, DIF's ability to boost HQAD becomes more pronounced. Industrialization and informatization serve as intermediaries in the promotion of HQAD by DIF. This study enhances the academic understanding of DIF’s multidimensional effects on HQAD and provides actionable findings for policymakers to optimize agricultural resource allocation and productivity.

农业高质量发展是人类社会可持续发展的关键。本文利用2011 - 2022年中国30个省份的面板数据，探讨了数字普惠金融（DIF）对HQAD的影响。主要研究结果如下：①这一时期中国HQAD呈递增趋势，但呈现出明显的沿海-内陆分异，反映出空间异质性；(2) DIF显著促进HQAD，经过一系列稳健性检验，这一发现成立。(3) DIF对HQAD的影响因地区而异，在主产区DIF的影响更为显著。(4)此外，DIF与HQAD的关系呈现出明显的非线性特征。(5)随着城市化进程的加快，DIF对HQAD的促进作用更加明显。工业化和信息化是DIF推动HQAD的中介。本研究增进了学术界对DIF对HQAD的多维影响的认识，并为政策制定者优化农业资源配置和生产力提供了可操作的发现。

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Changing discourses on gender and land: The example of Chiweshe, Zimbabwe, since the 1920s 性别与土地话语的变迁：以20世纪20年代以来的津巴布韦奇韦什为例

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103865

Karin Steen

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Agricultural exceptionalism, migrant farmworkers and their transnational condition. Insights into media portrayal in Germany 农业例外论、农民工及其跨国状况。透视德国的媒体形象

IF 5.7 1区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Rural Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103923

Margit Fauser, Nick Linsel

In contrast to other economic sectors, agriculture has long been defined by its exceptionalism, which justifies specific regulations and legal exemptions, not least concerning labour laws. Drawing from rural studies, labour studies and transnational migration research, we aim to contribute to an understanding of the existing labour exceptionalism for migrant farmworkers to further the recent scholarship on migration and agriculture. This scholarship has begun to explore the concentration of migrants in seasonal farmwork, analysing migrants' decisions and employers’ choices, and the role of labour law. Our scholarship will add a focus on the media portrayal of migrant farmworkers, which, while not directly matching workers to jobs, reflects and shapes broader societal understanding and can inform political (in)action. Empirically, this paper presents a qualitative analysis of local media discourse on migrant seasonal farmworkers in Germany, which has not received very much attention in the emerging debate. These workers predominantly come from Eastern EU member states, work for the season and then return home. We further adopt a transnational perspective to reveal that the portrayal of the ideal matching of migrant workers to farmwork rests on their transnational condition of working “here” and living “there” and is silent about the externalisation of the costs of social reproduction. Against this backdrop we argue that this media portrayal reflects the discursive normalisation of the exceptional work and employment conditions of these migrant farmworkers through a positive assessment of the underlying transnational labour arbitrage. This further rationalises and legitimises labour exceptionalism for migrant farmworkers.

与其他经济部门相比，农业长期以来一直被定义为其例外主义，这证明了特定法规和法律豁免的合理性，尤其是在劳动法方面。从农村研究、劳动力研究和跨国移民研究中，我们的目标是对农民工现有的劳动力例外论的理解做出贡献，以推动最近关于移民和农业的学术研究。这一学术研究已经开始探索季节性农作中移民的集中，分析移民的决定和雇主的选择，以及劳动法的作用。我们的奖学金将重点关注媒体对农民工的描述，这些描述虽然不能直接将工人与工作相匹配，但反映和塑造了更广泛的社会理解，并可以为政治行动提供信息。在实证方面，本文对德国当地媒体关于季节性农民工的话语进行了定性分析，这在新兴的辩论中并没有得到太多的关注。这些工人主要来自东欧成员国，工作一季就回家。我们进一步采用跨国视角来揭示，农民工与农业理想匹配的描述取决于他们在“这里”工作和在“那里”生活的跨国条件，而对社会再生产成本的外部化保持沉默。在此背景下，我们认为这种媒体描述通过对潜在的跨国劳动力套利的积极评估，反映了这些农民工特殊工作和就业条件的话语正常化。这进一步使农民工的劳动例外主义合理化和合法化。

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