Rural Communities: Legacy + Change

Rural Communities: Legacy + Change

by Cornelia Butler Flora
Rural Communities: Legacy + Change

Rural Communities: Legacy + Change

by Cornelia Butler Flora

Hardcover(5th ed.)

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Overview

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367319472
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/31/2019
Edition description: 5th ed.
Pages: 504
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen P. Gasteyer

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape — Components of Rural Communities: The Community Capitals — Natural Capital — Cultural Capital — Human Capital — Social Capital and Community — Political Capital — Financial Capital — Built Capital — Community Capitals and Community Development in a Changing World — The Global Economy — Consumption in Rural America — Governance — Generating Community Change
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