This paper emerges from a growing sense of disquiet over the regularity and often loosely
utilised appearance of the concept 'rural restructuring'in the literature. The paper examines …

Fuel poverty is a significant policy issue. An argument often made is that rural households
are more likely to be fuel poor due to the nature of rural housing stock and the more limited …

This paper uses ordered logit models to test for evidence of systematically higher levels of
subjective wellbeing in rural Scotland, differentiating between remote rural and accessible …

Reducing the proportion of households defined as energy poor is an increasingly important
policy objective. This paper uses longitudinal data to examine the level and dynamics of …

Although more and more people choose to live in (large) cities, people in the Western world
generally report lower levels of subjective well-being in urban areas than in rural areas. This …

This paper analyses the barriers to work faced by long-and short-term unemployed people
in remote rural labour markets. Applying a broad concept of 'employability'as an analytical …

This article contributes to explanations of rural poverty and deprivation by focusing on the
rural–urban poverty and deprivation gap in European countries. Using European Union …

We wish to thank Bettina Bock for her immense support in preparing this issue. We would
also like to thank all the authors of individual papers in the issue for excellent cooperation …

This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to examine whether
poverty dynamics changed in rural and urban Britain between 1991 and 2008, prior to the …

Moss JE, Jack CG and Wallace MT (2004) Employment location and associated commuting
patterns for individuals in disadvantaged rural areas in Northern Ireland, Reg. Studies 38 …