In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the
prominent challenges facing the Unite States. Strong support for
rural development is now found in both major political parties and
at federal, state, and local levels. There is little doubt that the
development of rural America will become even more important in the
future. Despite unprecedented growth, both urban and rural areas in
the United State are greatly deficient in many aspects of quality
living conditions. The nation's cities are slowly strangling
themselves, jamming together people and industry while spawning
pollution, transportation paralysis, housing blight, lack of
privacy, and a crime-infested society. Rural areas simultaneously
suffer from the other extreme: lack of sufficient employment
opportunities, outmigration and depopulation, and too few people to
support services and institutions. The migration from rural areas
contributes to the problems of both the city and countryside
depopulating rural places at the expense of overcrowded cities.
This book focuses on rural development processes, problems, and
solutions. Seven prominent specialists in the field, including
agricultural and regional economists, demographers, and
administrators, discuss the development of the open country, small
towns, and smaller cities (up to fifty thousand population). They
present an integrated approach to rural development problems, not a
mere collection of readings. Valuable guidelines for policies to
benefit both rural and urban areas are provided. Since rural
development involves interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will
be of interest to a wide range of social scientists working in
rural areas both here and abroad. Economists, sociologists, and
political scientists, as well as community leaders and planners,
legislators, government officials and interested laymen, will find
this volume useful in understanding the rural development effort.
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