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  • Rural Policies For The 1990s

    by Cornelia Flora, James A Christenson ...
    Crisis in rural America is by now an all too familiar complaint, yet the problems presented by changing demographics, economic decline, and increasing poverty persist. They have not vanished with a new administration. However, with a new farm bill in the offing, now is the time for a fresh initiative to assess the difficulties facing nonurban America and to offer positive solutions. Rural Policies ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Rural Communities Study Guide

    by Jan L. Flora, Cornelia Flora, Elizabeth Houdek, Mark Weinberg ...
    This book examines the process of rural community development and transition—exploring the ways in which history, culture, and policies limit change as well as the extent to which local community resources can mobilize to support efforts for community change. ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Rural Communities

    Legacy + Change

    by Cornelia Butler Flora ...
    Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change uses its unique Community Capitals framework to ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America

    Edited by Paul R. Lachapelle, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Cornelia Butler Flora ...
    Series series
    Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America addresses the role of communities in building their capacity to increase resiliency and carry out rural development strategies in Latin America. Resiliency in a community sense is associated with an ability to address stress and respond to shock while obtaining participatory engagement in community assessment, planning and outcome. Although the ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities

    Edited by Cornelia Flora ...
    Series series Advances in Agroecology
    There is an increasing realization among biophysical scientists that human behavior drastically impacts the degree to which sound agroecosystems are implemented. Written by an international team of experts assembled by a leading rural sociologist, Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities shows how human behavior impacts agroecosyst ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets

    by Sarah Lyon ...
    We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and consumers? This ethnographic analysis of fair-trade coffee analyzes the collective action and combined efforts of fair-trade ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Growing and Eating Sustainably

    Agroecology in Action

    by Dana James, Evan Bowness ...
    The industrial food system, from production to consumption and waste, is a major contributor to environmental, social and economic problems. A few powerful multinational corporations have consolidated control of agricultural markets and wealth while many farmers struggle to make a living and millions of people go hungry every day. Consumer access to healthy and culturally appropriate food remains ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Economic Development

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Marcelo M. Giugale ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and equity so elusive? Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® brings readers right into the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Speaking Green with a Southern Accent

    Environmental Management and Innovation in the South

    by Murphy Greene, David A. Breaux, Gerald A. Emison, Deborah R. Gallagher, Erin Holmes, Madeleine W. McNamara, James Newman, Rick Travis ...
    The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they present a contradiction of caution and innovation. This caution derives from the South's well ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • A Civil Economy

    Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

    by Severyn T. Bruyn ...
    Series series Evolving Values For A Capitalist World
    A civil society is one in which a democratic government and a market economy operate together. The idea of the civil economy--encompassing a democratic government and a market economy--presumes that people can solve social problems within the market itself. This book explores the relationship between the two, examining the civil underpinnings of capitalism and investigating the way a civil economy ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus