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Author Brown, David L

Title Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century
Published University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (532 p.)
Series Rural Studies
Studia obszarów wiejskich.
Contents Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Who Lives in Rural America Today? -- New Directions in Population Change and Diversity -- 1 Unpredictable Directions of Rural Population Growth and Migration -- 2 African Americans in Rural America -- 3 American Indians: Their Contemporary Reality and Future Trajectory -- 4 Latinos in Rural America -- Reshuffling and Remaking Rural Families -- 5 What Do Rural Families Look Like Today? -- 6 Older Rural Families -- 7 Rural Children and Youth at Risk
8 Rural Women: New Roles for the New Century? -- 9 Rural Poverty: The Persisting Challenge -- Part II: A Transformed Rural Economy -- 10 How People Make a Living in Rural America -- 11 Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? -- 12 Commuting: A Good Job Nearby? -- 13 Continuities and Disjunctures in the Transformation of the U.S. Agro-Food System -- 14 Tourism and Natural Amenity Development: Real Opportunities? -- Part III: The Rural Community: Is It Local? Is It a Community? -- Perspectives on Community -- 15 Community Agency and Local Development -- 16 Social Capital
17 Civil Society, Civic Communities, and Rural Development -- The Social Institutions That Maintain and Reproduce Community -- 18 The Global/Local Interface -- 19 Competition, Cooperation, and Local Governance -- 20 Religion -- 21 Promoting Educational Achievement: A Partnership of Families, Schools, and Communities -- 22 Rural Health Policy -- Part IV: People and the Environment: Tough Tradeoffs in an Era with Vanishing Buffers -- 23 Transforming Rural America: The Challenges of Land Use Change in the Twenty-First Century -- 24 Community and Resource Extraction in Rural America
25 Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Whose Home Is It Anyway? -- Part V: Changing National and International Policies: New Uncertainties and New Challenges -- 26 What Role Can Community Play in Local Economic Development? -- 27 Devolution: Who Is Responsible for Rural America? -- 28 Welfare Reform in Rural Areas: A Voyage through Uncharted Waters -- 29 The Impact of Global Economic Practices on American Farming -- 30 Catalytic Community Development: A Theory of Practice for Changing Rural Society -- Conclusion: Challenges Become Opportunities: Trends and Policies Shaping the Future -- References
Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Sociology, Rural -- United States
Rural development -- United States
Rural conditions
Rural development
Sociology, Rural
SUBJECT United States -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140507
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Swanson, Louis E
ISBN 9780271031439
0271031433