Author: Ayer Company Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Child Care in Rural America
Author: Ayer Company Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Rural Wealth Creation
Author: John L. PenderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135121966
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development. The authors define wealth as all assets net of liabilities that can contribute to well-being, and they provide examples of many forms of capital – physical, financial, human, natural, social, and others. They propose a conceptual framework for rural wealth creation that considers how multiple forms of wealth provide opportunities for rural development, and how development strategies affect the dynamics of wealth. They also provide a new accounting framework for measuring wealth stocks and flows. These conceptual frameworks are employed in case study chapters on measuring rural wealth and on rural wealth creation strategies. Rural Wealth Creation makes numerous contributions to research on sustainable rural development. Important distinctions are drawn to help guide wealth measurement, such as the difference between the wealth located within a region and the wealth owned by residents of a region, and privately owned versus publicly owned wealth. Case study chapters illustrate these distinctions and demonstrate how different forms of wealth can be measured. Several key hypotheses are proposed about the process of rural wealth creation, and these are investigated by case study chapters assessing common rural development strategies, such as promoting rural energy industries and amenity-based development. Based on these case studies, a typology of rural wealth creation strategies is proposed and an approach to mapping the potential of such strategies in different contexts is demonstrated. This book will be relevant to students, researchers, and policy makers looking at rural community development, sustainable economic development, and wealth measurement.
Economic Development in Rural Areas
Author: Prof Dr Peter DannenbergPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472444817
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In rural areas of industrialized societies, food production as a basis for growth and employment has been declining for many decades. In the global south, on the other hand, food production is still often the most important factor for socio-economic development. Analysing the ongoing changes and dynamics in rural development from a functional perspective through a series of case studies from the global north and south, this volume deepens our understanding of the importance of new functional and multifunctional approaches in policy, practice and theory.
Rural Development Resource Guide
Author: Rights Resources and Rural Development
Author: Christo FabriciusPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849772436
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably. Recently, however, the CBNRM concept has attracted criticism for failing in its promise of delivering significant local improvements and conserving biodiversity in some contexts. This book identifies the flaws in its application, which often have been swept under the carpet by those involved in the initiatives. The authors analyse them, and propose remedies for specific circumstances based on the lessons learned from CBNRM experience in southern Africa over more than a decade. The result is essential reading for all researchers, observers and practitioners who have focused on CBNRM in sustainable development programmes as a means to overcome poverty and conserve ecosystems in various parts of the globe. It is a vital tool in improving their methods and performance. In addition, academics, students and policy-makers in natural resource management, resource economics, resource governance and rural development will find it a very valuable and instructive resource.
Resource Directory
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. College of Agricultural and Life SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Rural Housing and Economic Development
Author: Don E. AlbrechtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351706292
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development. Rural areas face a substantial disadvantage compared to urban areas in regard to housing, and this book explores these issues. Rural Housing and Economic Development includes chapters from nationally known experts from throughout the U.S. to provide insight to help understand and address the difficult housing concerns within rural areas. The chapters cover a variety of issues including housing for rural minorities, the extent of and problems associated with mobile home dwelling, the extent to which affordable rental housing is available in rural areas, the rapidly growing elderly population, and the housing consequences of rapid population and economic growth associated with energy development. The authors not only describe various housing problems, but also suggest policy approaches to more effectively address them. This book will be a vital resource to policy makers at the local, state or national level as they grapple with difficult rural housing problems. Researchers and professionals dealing with housing issues will also benefit from the insights of these experts while the book will also be appropriate for upper level undergraduates or graduate students in courses on housing or economic development.
Network
Author: State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation
Author: Barbara J. LipmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
HRSA Directory
Author: United States. Health Resources and Services AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description