Rural Sustainable Development in America
Ivonne Audirac, Editor
Edited by Ivonne Audirac and published by John
Wiley & Sons, (1997).
ISBN: 0471152331, [448 pages].
About this book
Rural Sustainable Development in America is about ecological
thought and action at different levels of development planning. It presents
a diverse and multidisciplinary account of academic and professional experience
in sustaining rural communities. As a contributed volume it emphasizes
not only the diversity of the rural landscape, but also the diversity of
approaches to sustainability proposed and applied in different regions
of the US and Canada. Its contributors include: small town and rural and
regional planners, public administrators, environmental planners, landscape
architects, rural sociologists and geographers, agricultural economists,
and rural and community development practitioners.
Part One: Rural sustainable development: frameworks and underpinnings
provides an introduction to the debate, visions, and assumptions of rural
sustainable development. It presents alternative frameworks for rural revitalization
and development.
Part Two: Rural diversity and diversity of approaches to community
sustainability offers policy and planning strategies aimed at fostering
sustainable rural communities.
Part Three: Assessing the alternatives focuses on rural-urban
symbioses such as farming at the urban edge, green ways and trails, rural-urban
economic partnerships, rural waste management, and applied from-within
community empowerment and regional revitalization.
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