Rural Areas in Transition (eBook, PDF)

Meeting Challenges & Making Opportunities
Redaktion: Walzer, Norman; Merrett, Christopher

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway. Students and policymakers in local economic development, sociology of population change, business finance, political economy, and geography will find this a useful resource.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000811551
• Artikelnr.: 66390559

Autorenporträt

Norman Walzer, Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at Western Illinois University where he founded the statewide Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) in 1989 and retired as director in 2005. He has served as president of the Community Development Society, the Midwest Section of the Regional Science Association, and has held leadership positions in other professional organizations. He has published extensively with 27 authored, coauthored, or edited books and numerous articles on Collective Impact, local public finance, community and economic development, strategic planning, community-owned businesses, and related issues. He co-edits Local Development and Society, an international community and economic development journal and is on the Editorial Board of Community Development . Christopher D. Merrett, Ph.D., is the Dean for Innovation and Economic Development, Director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, and Program Chair for the master's degree in Community and Economic Development at Western Illinois University. His research focus is on regional development, social justice, and cooperatives as they relate to community development. He co-edited (with Norman Walzer) two books on this topic and he has also published on these issues in a wide range of academic and policy outlets.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rural Areas: Concerns and Potential

Norman Walzer & Christopher Merrett

2. Regional Economic Trends Across the Rural-Urban Divide

Steven Deller & Tessa Conroy

3. Rural America Can Have a Prosperous Future

Donald W. Macke

4. Rural Federal Policy in Transition



Tony Pipa & Natalie Geismar



5. Economic Contributions of Hospitals to Rural Areas: Are They Necessary?

Ernest Goss & Taylr Bahr

6. The Role of Rural Nonprofits: Innovation, Opportunities, & Threats

Jayme Walters

7. Social Enterprises as a Revitalization Strategy for Rural Communities

Peter Musinguzi, Nicolette Larder, & Derek Baker

8. Building a Rural Entrepreneurial Ecosystem



Kimber Lanning



9. Rewriting the Rural Narrative



Ryan Allen & Ben Winchester



10. Towards Citizens' Enablement: Examples of Academics Empowering Resident to Cost



Effectively Solve Community Issues

James Powell



11. Transitioning Businesses to the Next Generation in New Ways



Jennifer Hawkins, Norman Walzer, & John Bennett



12. Acquiring, Building, and Investing in Private Businesses: A New Approach

Dawn McGee, Michael Braun, & Kiah Hochstetler

13. Opportunities in Rural Areas: What have We Learned?

Norman Walzer & Chris Merrett

Rezensionen

"The best days for rural America lie ahead. That's the encouraging message of this first-rate group of scholars. As more and more Americans seek to live in human-scale communities that really work, the strategies outlined in this book-for economic development, business ownership, local investment, and entrepreneurship--can seed a rural Renaissance."

Michael H. Shuman, Author, PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR LIFE IS