The Integrated Development of Human and Natural Resources
The Integrated Development of Human and Natural Resources

Author: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii (Warschau)

Publisher: Zakad Nar Nauk

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 312

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Toward a methodology of systemic study of the countryside; The community in integrated development; Integrated rural development: some preconditions for practical action; The integrated development of human and natural resources: a challenge not well by rural sociology; Agricultural cooperative farms - unity of economic and social progress in the GDR; On the socioeconomic aspect of modeling migration; A last look at the distributive aspect of diffusion; Industrialization in advanced rural communities (the Israeli Kibbutz); The agricultural ladder in a Brazilian community; Social equity and progressive farmers in dynamic agriculture; Prospects of rural communities under constructional aspects; On the influence of the changes in the nature of the work and in professional qualifications on the social mobility of cooperative farmers in the German Democratic Republic; Part-time farming in Sweden; The structure of the household economy in rural north Norway; The transition of the small farmer to urban man in western Europe; Social stratification and social mobility in village India; A comparative study of rural youth in the national regions of the USSR: general and specific features; Rural youth in the USA: status, needs, and suggestions for development; Quality of life: what is it? Style of life and quality of life; The gradual development of a new synthesis of agriculture and industry and some consequences for the life of the agricultural population; The fourth world congress of rural sociology.

Rural Sociology and the Environment
Rural Sociology and the Environment

Author: Donald R. Field

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1988-11-03

Total Pages: 168

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With increasing awareness of the limits that natural resource reserves and environmental concerns impose on economic growth, rural sociologists have developed new ways of looking at the relationship between man and his environment. This volume surveys changing sociological views of that relationship and explores a holistic, cooperative model of human/nature interaction that reflects the needs of the post-industrial age. In their introduction Field and Burch review significant landmarks in natural resource sociology and comment on some of the underlying aims of rural sociology. The remaining chapters focus on three distinct periods during which rural sociologists have sought to examine man's relationship and adaptation to the environment.

The Community in Rural America
The Community in Rural America

Author: Kenneth P. Wilkinson

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2023-03-15

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 164642400X

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The Community in Rural America, by Kenneth P. Wilkinson, is a foundational theoretical work that both defines the interactional approach to the study of the community in rural areas and frames its application to encourage and promote rural community development. Recognized for its detailed theoretical construction and logic for understanding human interactions, this book has been widely adopted and used by researchers, extension faculty, and community development practitioners for over thirty years. Presenting Wilkinson’s groundbreaking work in its original form, with a new foreword aimed at clarifying several key concepts in interactional theory, this edition of The Community in Rural America will appeal to new students of the community as well as established scholars in the field.

Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics
Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

Author: Wu JunJie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 113652584X

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Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology and political science in order to focus on two complex interdependencies-one pertaining to natural resources and human welfare, the other to urban and rural communities and their economies. The book reviews the past 50 years of scholarship in both natural resource and rural economics. It contrasts their different intellectual and practical approaches and considers how they might be refocused in light of pressing demands on human and natural systems. It then proposes a 'new rural economics' that acknowledges the full range of human-ecosystem and urban-rural interdependencies. It explores the relationship between natural resources and economic growth, and considers the prospects for amenity-driven growth that would benefit both new and traditional inhabitants of rural areas. Later chapters explore the politics of place, spatial economics, strategies for reducing rural poverty, and prospects for linking rural and environmental governance. Throughout, the book emphasizes innovative research methods that integrate natural resource, environmental, and rural economics.

Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems
Rural Development for Sustainable Social-ecological Systems

Author: Claudia Baldwin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 3031342259

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This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management. The book demonstrates that those who work in rural sociology either as researchers or practitioners apply community development and participatory techniques to socio-environmental interaction. The book discusses how the evolving concept of interconnected social and ecological systems (SES) emerged, recognizing the inherent complexity, adaptive nature, and resilience of such systems. This book engages with contemporary theory, as well as new cutting-edge transdisciplinary research evidenced in case studies from three continents.

An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development
An Introduction to the Sociology of Rural Development

Author: Norman Long

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 244

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Monograph on rural sociology in developing countries - suggests using research methodologys (from the social and cultural anthropology discipline) at the regional level for the evaluation of social change. Diagrams and references.