From the reviews: "The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with rural and regional change and development. ... This book is highly recommended to academic researchers, as well as citizens and their decision-makers, planners, and managers struggling with amenity-led sociocultural, economic, and biophysical transformations of rural communities and their natural ecologies." (Laurence A. G. Moss, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 34 (1), February, 2014) "This book represents a career-long collaboration among Krannich (sociology, Utah State Univ.), Luloff (rural sociology, Penn State), and Field (forest and wildlife ecology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison). They bring together a range of methods and levels of analysis; subregional and community data are nested in regional-level changes. ... it is an exemplary regional study and makes important contributions to rural sociology, planning, and environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate level and beyond." (A. C. S. Swords, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Putting Rural Community Change in PerspectiveChapter 3. A Sociodemographic Portrait of the Intermountain WestChapter 4. “Old West” and “New West” – A Regional PerspectiveChapter 5. A New and Different People: Sociodemographic Changes in Southwest UtahChapter 6. New West and Old West: Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Resource Uses and ManagementChapter 7. Population Change and Contrasting Integration, Attachment and Participation in the New West-Old WestChapter 8. Rural People, Places and Landscapes: The Changing Nature of the Intermountain WestAppendix. Study Approach and MethodologyIndex

From the reviews: "The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with rural and regional change and development. ... This book is highly recommended to academic researchers, as well as citizens and their decision-makers, planners, and managers struggling with amenity-led sociocultural, economic, and biophysical transformations of rural communities and their natural ecologies." (Laurence A. G. Moss, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 34 (1), February, 2014) "This book represents a career-long collaboration among Krannich (sociology, Utah State Univ.), Luloff (rural sociology, Penn State), and Field (forest and wildlife ecology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison). They bring together a range of methods and levels of analysis; subregional and community data are nested in regional-level changes. ... it is an exemplary regional study and makes important contributions to rural sociology, planning, and environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate level and beyond." (A. C. S. Swords, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Putting Rural Community Change in PerspectiveChapter 3. A Sociodemographic Portrait of the Intermountain WestChapter 4. “Old West” and “New West” – A Regional PerspectiveChapter 5. A New and Different People: Sociodemographic Changes in Southwest UtahChapter 6. New West and Old West: Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Resource Uses and ManagementChapter 7. Population Change and Contrasting Integration, Attachment and Participation in the New West-Old WestChapter 8. Rural People, Places and Landscapes: The Changing Nature of the Intermountain WestAppendix. Study Approach and MethodologyIndex

From the reviews: "The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with rural and regional change and development. ... This book is highly recommended to academic researchers, as well as citizens and their decision-makers, planners, and managers struggling with amenity-led sociocultural, economic, and biophysical transformations of rural communities and their natural ecologies." (Laurence A. G. Moss, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 34 (1), February, 2014) "This book represents a career-long collaboration among Krannich (sociology, Utah State Univ.), Luloff (rural sociology, Penn State), and Field (forest and wildlife ecology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison). They bring together a range of methods and levels of analysis; subregional and community data are nested in regional-level changes. ... it is an exemplary regional study and makes important contributions to rural sociology, planning, and environmental policy. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate level and beyond." (A. C. S. Swords, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Putting Rural Community Change in PerspectiveChapter 3. A Sociodemographic Portrait of the Intermountain WestChapter 4. “Old West” and “New West” – A Regional PerspectiveChapter 5. A New and Different People: Sociodemographic Changes in Southwest UtahChapter 6. New West and Old West: Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Resource Uses and ManagementChapter 7. Population Change and Contrasting Integration, Attachment and Participation in the New West-Old WestChapter 8. Rural People, Places and Landscapes: The Changing Nature of the Intermountain WestAppendix. Study Approach and MethodologyIndex