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Download full textDepartment of Agriculture, Washington, DC. – 1975
As the second annual report on policies and programs designed to improve the quality of life in U.S. rural and nonmetropolitan regions, this report: (1) presents tentative qualitative goal statements; (2) sets forth results-oriented quantitative goals for programs funded under provisions of the Rural Development Act of 1972; (3) describes the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Services, Employment, Equalization Aid
Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
To assure that development of coal utilization facilities in the sparsely populated Old West Region of Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming will proceed in an orderly manner with a minimum of socioeconomic disruption or fiscal inequality, impact studies must be prepared for each of the 100 potential sites to be affected.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Costs, Economic Development, Employment
PDF pending restorationSmith, Eldon D.; And Others – 1978
In assessing impacts of rural industrial development, it is important to include not only economic impacts but the interface between organizational, political, and behavioral aspects with economic aspects. Though effects depend on a variety of economic and institutional circumstances, several observations can be made about how new manufacturing…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Change, Community Characteristics, Decision Making
Carter, Keith A.; And Others – 1978
A research project in nine Iowa counties attempted to show local level decision makers how to use social indicator data to improve quality of life and increase accountability in policy making. Tools presented were descriptive social reporting (a mechanism for organizing descriptive, time series, social indicator data) and systematic needs…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitudes, Community Leaders, Decision Making
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; Freedman, Abby J. – 1981
The study documents what happened in 10 rural communities when a federal educational funding program (Experimental Schools) in 1972 provided 5-year grants for demonstration projects designed both to improve the school system and, through the schools, to address a variety of community needs. The study employs two strategies to document the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Carter, Keith A.; And Others – 1977
Project 2142 was a multi-phase effort to discover and mobilize for dissemination to rural decision-makers various information and findings pertaining to the quality of life experienced by rural people. The initial research phases involved design of a conceptual framework that placed some parameters on the variety of social phenomena studied.…
Descriptors: County Programs, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Education
Marshall, Chris; And Others – 1977
Since the burden of improving quality of life is often squarely placed on the shoulders of public decision makers, this report (one of the products of Project 2142) provides a basis for assisting county-level decision makers in the planning process. Statistics that "indicate" the social well being or quality of life experienced by people…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Communications, Decision Making, Economic Factors
