The earliest and most enduring approach was concerned with the 'making of the rural', focusing on pattern and process in the evolution of settlement, the roles of continuity, change and modernization, and the impact of geographical inertia in rural landscapes.
At a theoretical level, we are interested in exploring how key organisational tensions (collective-individual, continuity-change, standardisation-contingency) play out over time and across settings via enactment of routines.
A garden is nothing if not the promise of continuity amid change — the change of colors and seasons, the impertinent arrival of weeds and drought.
In 2013, Cielo was the only one left in the project, but highlighted its continuity, with changes in the project, receiving new members and getting new sponsors.
Additional research could yield greater insight into the continuity or changes over time in these associations between well-being and preparedness.
What seems certain is that despite morning-after headlines here that strangely spoke of a vote for continuity, more change -- perhaps dramatic change -- is on its way.
Here, we apply the lens of continuity and change to understand how local herders interpret environmental change.
Here, we apply the lens of continuity and change to understand how local actors' frame environmental change.
We have to consider that the humanities continue to demonstrate the vibrant and dynamic tension between continuity and change.
Through an evaluation of the relative balance between institutional continuity and change, social-ecological systems may be typified in a state of persistence (continuity > change), adaptation (continuity ~ change) or transformation (continuity < change) (Herrfahrdt-Pahle and Pahl-wostl 2012).
