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Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1990
From an interdisciplinary perspective, this proceedings of the National Rural Studies Committee examines how rural people, communities, and institutions have and are adapting to the enormous changes of recent decades, especially the 1980s. The specialized scholarly presentations cover such diverse issues as rural family, public policies,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Development, Economic Change, Institutions
Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1992
This proceedings contains 11 papers that focus on issues and problems of rural communities in the Southwest. Papers include: (1) "Dilemmas of a New Age: A Half-Millennium of Landscape Change in New Mexico and the Southwest," by Paul F. Starrs; (2) "American Indians Today," by C. Matthew Snipp; (3) "The Southwest: Global…
Descriptors: American Indians, Conservation (Environment), Demography, Economic Development
Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1988
The purposes of the National Rural Studies Committee (NRSC) are to develop a comprehensive and coherent framework for viewing rural area problems, and to provide legitimacy for rural studies as an academic field of specialization. This first NRSC meeting focused on the picture of rural America drawn in American literature, the nature of employment…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Conservation (Environment), Economic Development, Economic Factors