Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, David L.
Other Authors: Swanson, Louis E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015.
Series:Studia obszarów wiejskich.
Subjects:
Sociology, Rural > United States.
Rural development > United States.
Rural conditions
Rural development
Sociology, Rural
United States > Rural conditions.
United States
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Table of 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

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