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Rural Development in the United States

Name: Rural Development in the United States
Brand: ISLAND PRESS
SKU: 9781559633260
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Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities

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By William A. Galston, Karen Baehler
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Release Date: May 14, 1995
Format: PAPERBACK
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Pages: 368

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Rural Development in the United States presents a comprehensive evaluation of the economic, environmental, and political implications of past rural development and a thorough consideration of the directions in which future development efforts should go. The authors have assembled the best of what is being thought and done with regard to rural development in the United States, and place it in a broad theoretical, historical, and geographical context. The book provides: a summary of the key findings in rural development research of the past twenty years an integration of development theory and practical experience a bridge between the related but often isolated disciplines that inform rural development a catalyst for new thinking in the area of rural development analysis of the key economic sectors in rural areas: natural resources, the service sector, elderly services, telecommunications, manufacturing, tourism, and high-technology It includes important information about how national and international trends affect rural communities and development strategies and will help guide rural economic development policy in the United States during the 1990s and beyond.

Preface
Acknowledgments

PART I. Background and Framework
Chapter 1. Rural America in the 1990s: Trends and Choices
-The National/Global Context
-Rural Comparative Advantage
-Collective Action Failures
-Conclusion: Rural America in the 1990s

Chapter 2. Development: A Conceptual Framework
-Development as a Social Goal
-Development: Specific Features
-Implications for U.S. Rural Development

Chapter 3. Development: An Economic Process
-Third World Economic Development, 1950-1990
-Implications for Rural Development
-Lessons from Global Economic Change
-Theories of Rural Economic Change
-Conclusion

Chapter 4. Development: A Political Strategy
-Introduction: Action versus Inaction in Rural Development
-Institutions and Strategies
-Development: Overcoming Political and Cultural Obstacles
-Development: Overcoming Economic Obstacles

PART II. U.S. Rural Development: Sectoral Analysis
Chapter 5. Natural Resources
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development-Jobs
-Quality of Development-The Environment

Chapter 6. Manufacturing
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Chapter 7. The Service Sector
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Chapter 8. Tourism
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Chapter 9. The Elderly
-Introduction
-The Context: National Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Chapter 10. High Technology
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Chapter 11. Telecommunications
-Introduction
-The Context: National and International Trends
-The Rural Picture
-Economic Development Strategies
-Quality of Development

Conclusion: Toward the Next Millennium
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rural Development in the United States

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