Judson C. Edwards

Digital Deliverance

Dragging Rural America, Kicking and Screaming, Into the Information Economy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the reader a step-by-step, practice-oriented framework for implementing a rural economic development planning strategy through the implementation of broadband telecommunications. The author argues that utilization of technology is required if communities want to increase their potential for economic development success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845522
• ISBN-10: 0761845526
• Artikelnr.: 26816909

Autorenporträt

Judson C. Edwards, Ph.D. is an associate professor of economics and director of the Center for International Business in the Sorrell College of Business at Troy University, Troy Campus. Edwards is a member of the editorial board of Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society and the senior editorial advisor for Applied Research in Economic Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 List of Tables Chapter 3 Foreword
Chapter 4 Preface Chapter 5 I. Introduction Chapter 6 II. Broadband
Telecommunications: The Interstate Highway of the 21st Century Chapter 7
III. Federal and State Broadband Policies: Shaping the Prospect of Economic
Development in Rural America Chapter 8 IV. Beyond Access: A Cluster
Approach to Broadband Telecommunications-Based Rural Economic Development
Planning Chapter 9 V. Local Leadership and Policy in Broadband
Telecommunications-Based Rural Economic Development Planning Chapter 10 VI.
Conclusion Chapter 11 Appendices Chapter 12 References