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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Rural America Enters the New Millennium | |
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| Who Lives in Rural America Today? | |
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| New Directions in Population Change and Diversity | |
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| Unpredictable Directions of Rural Population Growth and Migration | |
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| African Americans in Rural America | |
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| American Indians: Their Contemporary Reality and Future Trajectory | |
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| Latinos in Rural America | |
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| Reshuffling and Remaking Rural Families | |
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| What Do Rural Families Look Like Today? | |
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| Older Rural Families | |
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| Rural Children and Youth at Risk | |
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| Rural Women: New Roles for the New Century? | |
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| Rural Poverty: The Persisting Challenge | |
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| A Transformed Rural Economy | |
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| How People Make a Living in Rural America | |
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| Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? Lessons From the Past, Challenges for the Future | |
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| Commuting: A Good Job Nearby? | |
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| Continuities and Disjunctures in the Transformation of the U.S. Agro-Food System | |
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| Tourism and Natural Amenity Development: Real Opportunities? | |
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| The Rural Community: Is It Local? Is It a Community? | |
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| Perspectives on Community | |
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| Community Agency and Local Development | |
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| Social Capital | |
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| Civil Society, Civic Communities, and Rural Development | |
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| The Social Institutions That Maintain and Reproduce Community | |
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| The Global/Local Interface | |
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| Competition, Cooperation, and Local Governance | |
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| Religion | |
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| Promoting Educational Achievement: A Partnership of Families, Schools, and Communities | |
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| Rural Health Policy | |
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| People and the Environment: Tough Tradeoffs in an Era with Vanishing Buffers | |
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| Transforming Rural America: The Challenges of Land Use Change in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Community and Resource Extraction in Rural America | |
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| Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Whose Home Is It Anyway? | |
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| Changing National and International Policies: New Uncertainties and New Challenges | |
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| What Role Can Community Play in Local Economic Development? | |
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| Devolution: Who Is Responsible for Rural America? | |
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| Welfare Reform in Rural Areas: A Voyage through Uncharted Waters | |
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| The Impact of Global Economic Practices on American Farming | |
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| Catalytic Community Development: A Theory of Practice for Changing Rural Society | |
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| Conclusion: Challenges Become Opportunities: Trends and Policies Shaping the Future | |
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| References | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |