Rural communities : legacy and change /
"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&#...
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Boulder, CO :
Westview Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part One
- Introduction
- 1: Community Capitals and the Rural Landscape. The Rural Landscape ; Defining Rural ; Defining Community ; Rural Communities and Change ; Market, State, and Civil Society ; About This Book ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- Part Two: Components of Rural Communities : The Community Capitals. Natural Capital ; Land Use ; Water Concerns ; Importance of Biodiversity ; Climate Change ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 3. Cultural Capital. Rural Values? ; Cultural Capital and Social Problems ; Diversity in Rural Cultural Capital ; Conflicting Cultural Capitals and Cultural Domination ; Cultural Capital and Hierarchy ; Cultural Capital and the Family ; Transmitting Culture through the Community ; Impact of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity ; Inequality: Whose Cultural Capital? ; Creating Shared Cultural Capital ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 4. Human Capital. What is Human Capital ; Changes in the Quantity of Human Capital ; Migration of Human Capital ; How Different Capitals Impact Health Status in Rural Areas ; Health Equity ; The Affordable Care Act and Rural America ; Building Human Capital ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 5. Social Capital and Community. What is Social Capital ; Measuring Social Capital ; Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: Homogeneity or Inclusion? ; Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 6. Political Capital. Political Capital ; Power and Economic Interests ; Power Structure and Community Change ; Understanding Power Structure and Increasing the Political Capital of Excluded Groups ; Who Gains? ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 7. Financial Capital. The Concept of Financial Capital ; Accounting and Accountability ; Forms of Financial Capital ; Financial Capital and Community Needs ; Sources of Capital ; The Changing Rules of Financial Capital and Increasing Inequality ; Business Financial Capital and Community ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 8. Built Capital. Defining Built Capital ; Public Versus Private Provision of Built Capital ; Community Choices ; Federal, State, and Local Roles: Making Linkages ; Motivation to Act ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- Part Three : Community Capitals and Community Development in a Changing World. 9. The Global Economy ; Altering Globalization: The Growing Importance of Financial Capital ; Rural Linkages to a World Economy ; Opportunities and Risks: Rural Areas in the Global Economy ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 10. Consumption in Rural America. Consumption and American exceptionalism ; Consumption and debt ; Consumption and Consumerism in Rural Areas ; Impacts of Increased Consumption ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 11: Governance : What is Governance? ; Organization and Functions of Local Governments ; Challenges Face by Local Governments ; Providing Public Services: An Example of Collaboration ; Sustained Citizen Engagement ; Leveraging Regional Resources ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References
- 12: Generating Social Change. Community Development ; Models of Community Development ; Factors in Effective Change ; Approaches to Economic Development ; Summary ; Key Terms ; Discussion Questions ; Web Resources ; References.
