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Direct linkGordon, Jason S.; Matarrita-Cascante, David; Stedman, Richard C.; Luloff, A. E. – Rural Sociology, 2010
Given increasing political and financial commitments to wildfire preparedness, risk policy demands that risk identification, assessment, and mitigation activities are balanced among diverse resident groups. Essential for this is the understanding of residents' perceptions of wildfire risks. This study compares wildfire-risk perceptions of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Land Use, Population Trends
McLean, Edward L.; Colclough, Glenna – 1978
To determine degree of local support for industrialization as a means of rural economic development, leaders and influentials in three South Carolina counties were interviewed in 1977. Each was asked to define "development" and to list and rank three aspects of his county he especially liked and its most important needs or problems.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Leaders, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
PDF pending restorationLong, Larry; DeAre, Diana – 1982
In the late 1970s both jobs and population were growing more rapidly outside metropolitan areas. As a group, nonmetropolitan counties not adjacent to a metropolitan area experienced a faster rate of employment growth than metropolitan areas between 1975-79. Even in rural counties (no urban place of 2,500 or more) not adjacent to a metropolitan…
Descriptors: Change, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Development
Download full textColeman, A. Lee, Comp.; And Others – 1973
As part of a larger study prepared to provide local leaders with information on socioeconomic characteristics and household attitudes in four Kentucky counties, this databook on Perry County is compiled from 1961 (open country area) and 1973 (open country and nonopen country area) surveys. The sampling procedure involved a random selection of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Heads of Households
Coleman, A. Lee, Comp.; And Others – 1973
As part of a larger study prepared to provide local leaders with information on socioeconomic characteristics and household attitudes in four Kentucky counties, this databook on Whitley County is compiled from 1961 (open country area) and 1973 (open country and nonopen country area) surveys. The sampling procedure involved a random selection of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Heads of Households
Coleman, A. Lee, Comp.; And Others – 1973
As part of a larger study prepared to provide local leaders with information on socioeconomic characteristics and household attitudes in four Kentucky counties, this databook on Harlan County is compiled from 1961 (open country area) and 1973 (nonopen country area and open country area) surveys. The sampling procedure involved a random selection…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Heads of Households
Coleman, A. Lee, Comp.; And Others – 1973
As part of a larger study prepared to provide local leaders with information on socioeconomic characteristics and household attitudes in four Kentucky counties, this databook on Wolfe County is compiled from 1961 (open country area) and 1973 (open country and nonopen country area) surveys. The sampling procedure involved a random selection of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Heads of Households
Jobes, Patrick C. – 1979
Satisfaction with one's community is an elusive quality related to a variety of physical and social factors. As changes in the community become imminent, levels of satisfaction may also change. Residents of two communities were periodically questioned as their personal satisfaction, (happy place, suitable size), satisfaction with services…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Frese, Wolfgang, Ed. – 1980
A total of 47 papers representing the broad research and extension interests related to rural areas are included in this volume. The 13 sessions are entitled Rural Structure and Process, Industrialization, Migration, Health and Alcohol, Quality of Life, Occupations and Work, Applied Sociology, Education, Network Analysis, Poverty, Status…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Area Studies, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics
