Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy

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Shanna Ratner (Yellow Wood Associates, St. Alban's, VT, USA) Deborah Markley (Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Lincoln, NE, USA)

Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy

Shanna Ratner (Yellow Wood Associates, St. Alban's, VT, USA), Deborah Markley (Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Lincoln, NE, USA)

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Routledge
06 November 2015

Rural communities; Development economics; Sustainability

Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

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. Previous approaches to community and economic development have been inadequate in attempting to reverse these trends. Shifting to a new way of enabling economic development requires supporting innovative community leaders as they explore new ways of approaching the task at hand. It also requires thinking anew about the role of rural areas, based on valuing 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. At the same time, a number of compelling issues are raised that merit future research effort and discussion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Community Development.

Edited by: Shanna Ratner (Yellow Wood Associates St. Alban's VT USA), Deborah Markley (Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Lincoln, NE, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9781138119468
ISBN 10: 1138119466
Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 06 November 2015
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.