Future Of Rural America

Anticipating Policies For Constructive Change

AvKenneth Pigg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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It has been my pleasure to work with a distinguished, committed,and cooperative group of contributors to this volume. They have taught me how to perform the editing role and put up with innumerable and probably insufferable suggestions. I have been privileged to work with exceptionally fine individuals in this endeavor and will count that among my many blessings.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-13
Mått:152 x 237 x undefined mm
Vikt:566 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:285
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367292355

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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Kenneth E. Pigg is Associate Professor, Department of Rural Sociology and Extension Specialist in Community and Rural Development, University of Missouri-Columbia. He has contributed to several journals with articles on community development and program evaluation. His work also emphasizes program development in communities and professional education in rural community economic development.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword /Forrest A. Deseran -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Future of Rural America /Kenneth E. Pigg -- 2 Rural Policy in Perspective: The Rise, Fall, and Uncertain Future of the American Welfare-State /Frederick H. Buttel and Gilbert W. Gillespie, Jr. -- 3 The Benefits of Space and the Cost of Distance /Emery N. Castle 41 -- 4 The Emerging Global Economy and Rural Communities: A New Perspective /Edward J. Blakely -- 5 The Future of the Community in Rural Areas /Kenneth P. Wilkinson -- 6 Developing the Farm-Dependent Rural Economy: The Policy Choices /Mark Drabenstott -- 7 The Role of Community in Rural Economic Development /Jerry L. Wade and Glen C. Pulver -- 8 Encouraging Economic Development in Rural America /William R. Gillis -- 9 The Restructuring of the Global Economy and the Future of U.S. Agriculture /W. Richard Goe and Martin Kenney -- 10 Families in the New Rural Community, Sonya Salamon -- 11 Individual and Social Problems in Rural Community Life /Lorraine Garkovich -- 12 Civic Education, Rural Development, and the Land Grant Institutions /Donald W. Littrell and Doris P. Uttrell -- 13 Governing the Countryside: Linking Politics and Administrative Resources /Jim Seroka and Seshan Subramaniam -- 14 Regenerating Rural America /Robert Rodale and Karen Lehman -- 15 Waking the Owl of Minerva: Constructing a Future for Rural America /Lawrence Busch -- About the Contributors -- Index.