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Rural areas in transition : meeting challenges and making opportunities / edited by Norman Walzer and Christopher D. Merrett.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Community development research and practice series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--United States.
- Rural development.
- Rural renewal--United States.
- Rural renewal.
- United States--Rural conditions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Norman Walzer, Ph.D., is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at Western Illinois University where he founded the statewide Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) in 1989 and retired as director in 2005. He has served as president of the Community Development Society, the Midwest Section of the Regional Science Association, and has held leadership positions in other professional organizations. He has published extensively with 27 authored, coauthored, or edited books and numerous articles on Collective Impact, local public finance, community and economic development, strategic planning, community-owned businesses, and related issues. He co-edits Local Development and Society, an international community and economic development journal and is on the Editorial Board of Community Development. Christopher D. Merrett, Ph.D., is the Dean for Innovation and Economic Development, Director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, and Program Chair for the master's degree in Community and Economic Development at Western Illinois University. His research focus is on regional development, social justice, and cooperatives as they relate to community development. He co-edited (with Norman Walzer) two books on this topic and he has also published on these issues in a wide range of academic and policy outlets.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rural areas in transition
- ISBN:
- 9781003280620
- 1003280625
- 9781000811568
- 1000811565
- 9781000811551
- 1000811557
- Publisher Number:
- 40031553167
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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