Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy

ISBN-13: 9781138119468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 108 str.

Shanna Ratner;Deborah Markley;?Abar

Opis

Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth, and, when this wealth is created, they often struggle to hold on it. Enabling economic development in rural areas requires thinking anew about the value of multiple forms of wealth – natural, social, and human. There is a real need for an approach that can help stem the potential loss of existing wealth, and attract new investment that will allow rural areas to become valued partners in regional economies. This book provides an important insight into rural wealth creation as a sustainable economic development strategy. This book was published as a special issue of Community Development.

Spis treści

Introduction: Rural wealth creation as a sustainable economic development strategy  1. Facilitating community wealth building: understanding the roles played and capacities needed by coordinating institutions  2. Socioeconomic development in an ultra-peripheral European region: the role of a food regulatory council as a social anchor  3. Community forests as a wealth creation strategy for rural communities  4. Community development and other extra-religious functions of Islamic schools: a contemporary perspective from the voices of stakeholders in two madrassas in Pakistan  5. International amenity migration: implications for integrated community development opportunities  6. A story about storytelling: enhancement of community participation through catalytic storytelling 

O autorze

Shanna Ratner is the founder of Yellow Wood Associates, a woman-owned small business, based in St. Alban’s City, VT, USA, which specializes in community economic development in rural America.

Deborah Markley is the co-founder of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, a national non-profit based in Lincoln, NE, USA, which works with communities across North America to create and implement entrepreneurship development strategies.