The Future Of Rural America
Anticipating Policies For Constructive Change
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2019
Book
Hardback
285 pages
978-0-367-29235-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-29235-5 (9780367292355)
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Person
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.
Content
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.