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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Land Ownership Patterns and Their Impacts on Appalachian Communities
Author: Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: West Virginia Politics and Government
Author: Richard A. BrisbinPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
With one of the weakest economies in the nation and a college attendance level lowest among the states, West Virginia has recently concentrated resources on combating its isolation from eastern markets and improving the quality of its public schools. The authors explore how West Virginians cope with these problems—compounded by the state’s relatively high rates of occupational injury, teenage pregnancy, maternal health problems, heart disease, lung disease, and cancer—and how they choose to govern and be governed while seeking solutions. The authors argue that West Virginia’s political system is affected by institutional rules, roles, and processes conditioned by the availability of economic resources. They examine the state’s historical, political, judicial, and cultural practices, illuminating the policy consequences of limited institutional capacity on the economy, education, the environment, and healthcare.
Appalachian Regional Commission Archives
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Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Guide to the repository collection for the Commission's library and archives on economic development in Appalachia since 1965.
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Who Owns Appalachia?
Author: Appalachian Land Ownership Task ForcePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185742
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.
The Southern Appalachians
Author: Susan L. YarnellPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428953736
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Sociological Abstracts
Author: Comprehensive Plan for the Protection, Management, Development and Use of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Author: Mountain Life and Work
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Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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