Reinventing rural : new realities in an urbanizing world /

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Main Author: Fulkerson, Gregory M. (Editor)
Other Authors: Thomas, Alexander R., 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016
Series:Studies in urban-rural dynamics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Cautionary tales and the costs of traditional rural development
  • The need to reinvent rural
  • Urban dependency and urbananormativity
  • The rural mystique in American society
  • Reinventing rural environmental justice
  • Urbanization, land use and environmental change: A sociological perspective
  • Centralia Pennsylvania: disaster or apathy?
  • Part II: Reinventing rural in an urbanized world
  • Rural community economic vitality: measurement and dimensionality in the number and types of local establishments
  • Build it and they will come? the EB-5 immigrant investor program and Vermont's Jay Peak resort
  • What do they do up there? A look at two non-metropolitan counties in New York state
  • Reframing rural education: implications of the rural mystique and its absence in educational policy
  • Doggonit, people live here: the unmet challenges in rural behavioral health
  • Conclusion: reinventing rural revisited.