Reinventing Rural - New Realities in an Urbanizing World

This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to alternative economic development strategies and by focusing on improved quality of life. The image of rural given is one of dynamism and resiliency.

List of contents

Part I. Cautionary Tales and the Costs of Traditional Rural Development
1. The Need to Reinvent Rural, Alexander R. Thomas and Gregory Fulkerson
2. Urban Dependency and Urbanormativity, Alexander R. Thomas
3. The Rural Mystique in American Society, Fern K. Willits, Gene L. Theodori, and Michael W.P. Fortunato
4. Reinventing Rural Environmental Justice, Laura McKinney
5. Urbanization, Land Use, and Environmental Change: A Sociological Perspective, Matthew Clement
6. Centralia, Pennsylvania: Disaster or Apathy? Carrie L. Kane and Alexander R. Thomas
Part II. Reinventing Rural in an Urbanizing World
7. Rural Economic Vitality, Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas
8. Build it and They Will Come? The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and Jay Peak Resort, Aimee Vieira
9. What do They Do up There? A Look at Two Non-Metropolitan Counties in New York State, Stephanie Bennett
10. Reframing Rural Education: Implications of the Rural Mystique and its Absence in Educational Policy, Leanne M. Avery and Michael W.P. Fortunato
Chapter 11. Doggonit, People Live Here! The Unmet Challenges of Rural Behavioral Health, James Zians
12. Conclusion: Reinventing Rural Revisited, Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas

About the author

Dr. Gregory M. Fulkerson is associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Oneonta.

Dr. Alexander R. Thomas is professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Oneonta.

Summary

This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to alternative economic development strategies and by focusing on improved quality of life. The image of rural given is one of dynamism and resiliency.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory M. Thomas Fulkerson, Alexander R. Fulkerson Thomas
• Assisted by: Gregory M Fulkerson (Editor), Gregory M. Fulkerson (Editor), Fulkerson Gregory M. (Editor), Alexander R Thomas (Editor), Alexander R. Thomas (Editor), Thomas Alexander R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781498534093
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3409-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamic; Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics; Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics; Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Food & society, Urban communities, Cultural studies: food and society, Urban communities / city life, Rural communities / rural life