Rural Public Services

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW -- 1 BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF STUDY / Richard E. Lonsdale and Gyorgy Enyedi -- 2 A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE ON RURAL SERVICE PROVISION: A SYSTEMS APPROACH / Bryan H. Mas sam and Ian Askew -- 3 IDENTIFYING SERVICE PRIORITIES OF RURAL CONSUMERS / Barry Smit and Alun E. Joseph -- PART TWO: THE EXPERIENCES OF ADVANCED CAPITALIST NATIONS -- 4 THE ECONOMICS OF RURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES IN THE UNITED STATES / James R. Nelson, Luther Tweeten, and Gerald Doeksen -- 5 THE UNITED STATES: THE SPECIAL CASE OF ALASKA / Gerald A. McBeath -- 6 THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES IN RURAL ONTARIO, CANADA / Jackie Wolfe -- 7 SERVICE DECLINE AND POLICY RESPONSE: RURAL BRITAIN IN THE 1980s / Malcolm J. Moseley -- 8 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY / Peter Graf -- 9 THE SUPPLY OF PUBLIC SERVICES IN FINNISH LAPLAND / Eino Siuruainen -- 10 DELIVERING ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL ISRAEL / Avinoam Meir -- 11 IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN RURAL JAPAN / Hiromichi Nagashima -- 12 AUSTRALIA: THE DILEMMA OF SPARSE POPULATION AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS / John H. Holmes -- PART THREE: THE EXPERIENCES OF SOCIALIST NATIONS -- 13 SPATIAL AND STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF RURAL SERVICE PROVISION IN THE LITHUANIAN S.S.R. / Stasys K. Vaitekunas -- 14 ORGANIZATIONAL TRENDS IN RURAL PUBLIC SERVICE PROVISION IN HUNGARY / Gyorgy Enyedi -- 15 THE PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES IN RURAL CHINA / Deborah Davis-Friedmann -- 16 RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES IN SOCIALIST CUBA / Sergio Roca -- PART FOUR: THE EXPERIENCES OF THIRD WORLD NATIONS -- 17 PUBLIC SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS OF MEXICO / Silvana Levi de Lopez -- 18 DELIVERY OF SERVICES IN RURAL AREAS OF HONDURAS: INSTITUTIONS AND PROBLEMS / Neale J. Pearson -- 19 PROVISION OF BASIC NEEDS IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA / Gopal S. Kulkarni and Prabhakar R. Karmarkar -- 20 RURAL SERVICE DELIVERY IN INDONESIA / Thomas R. Leinbach -- 21 ACCESS TO RURAL SERVICES IN NIGERIA / Michael L. McNulty, M. A. 0. Ayeni, M. 0. Filani, and G. 0. Olaore -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSION -- 22 SUMMARY GENERALIZATIONS ON RURAL PUBLIC SERVICES / Richard E. Lonsdale -- About the Contributors -- Index.