Population Change and Rural Society

Population Change and Rural Society

This book contains the latest research on social and economic trends occurring in rural America. Conducted by an interdisciplinary and regionally diverse group of social scientists, this original research highlights four major themes transforming contemporary rural areas: population composition change; industrial restructuring and changing livelihoods; changing patterns of rural land use; and areas of persistent disadvantage and emerging opportunity. Each theme is examined with an expanded overview and geographically varied case studies.This volume is the first scholarly assessment exclusively focused on rural demographic trends that exploits data from Census 2000. It contributes to knowledge of the interdependency between population change and rural society, and it provides an empirical context for considering policy choices. Enriched by perspectives from demographers, geographers, historians and sociologists, this volume is an essential starting point for scholarship on rural demographic change in the 21th Century.It is of particular interest to agricultural economists, environmental psychologists, community psychologists, sociologists, and developers, demographers, geographers, regional planners and scientists, and rural policy analysts and sociologists.

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William A. Kandel, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, USA / David L. Brown, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Rural America through a Demographic Lens.
- The Rural Rebound and its Aftermath.
- Changing Faces of Rural America.
- Changing Livelihoods in Rural America.
- Fifty Years of Farmland Change.
- Changing Fortunes.
- Hispanic Population Growth.
- Social Integration of Older Inmigrants in Nonmetro Retirement Destination Counties.
- Agricultural Dependence and Population Change in the Great Plains.
- Gaming, Population Change and Rural Development on Indian Reservations.
- Urban Sprawl and Rural Economic Transformation in the South.
- Changing Land Use Patterns in the Rocky Mountain West.
- The Effect of Seasonal Homes on Indicators of Rurality.
- Housing Affordability in the North Woods of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
- Social Change and Well Being in Western Amenity-Growth Communities.
- Community Evaluation and Migration Intentions: The Role of Attraction and Aversion to Place on the Northern Great Plains.
- Persistent Poverty and Inequality in Appalachia.
- Welfare Reform Amidst Chronic Poverty in the Mississippi Delta.
- The (Re-)Emergence of Spatial Demography.
- Policy Implications of Rural Demographic Change.