When all roads (well, tracks) lead to Paris, and the provincial ones wither away while TGVs speed between cities.
"The railway carriages .. are veritable museum pieces, designed in the 1970s. Today it takes half an hour longer to travel from #Limoges to Paris than it did back then."
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/12/11/france-needs-better-slow-trains-not-just-fast-ones #France #rail #trains #rural #urbanrural
#UrbanRural connections could boost #resilience in the face of change - research from @IanScoones & team @PASTRES_erc @IDS_UK.
đšâđŸ Read about the benefits of a livestock-raising lifestyle đ https://bit.ly/3VUZxjz
#governance #environmentalscience #pastoralism #biodiversity
đŠđ: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1604454024321044481
Head out of the city and escape to the countryside. Soon, the road narrows, the lights dim and the human settlements get further and further apart. You stop and listen. Silence. Urban sprawl is replaced by fields and farms. You could be in a different world.
Stepping into this new world...
I'm a professor of #PoliticalScience at #WashU and the Director of the Weidenbaum Center on the #Economy, #Government, and #PublicPolicy.
New book on #PublicOpinion towards #PresidentialPower at www.andrewreeves.org.
Interested in #elections, #urbanRural divide, and #presidency. Interested in learning more about #localPoliticalEconomy, #environmentalpolicy, #publicHealth, and #stlouis.
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