New Series of Briefs on Challenges in Rural America

The Rural Sociological Society, in connection with the Southern Rural Development Center and three other Regional Rural Development Centers, recently released a series of briefs based on its book, Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century.

The six briefs, each drawn from a different chapter, stress the importance of promoting collective community action and developing the capacity of people and organizations to meet the special needs of rural communities. The six briefs address the following topics:

1) The changing face of rural America;

2) The challenges of rural poverty;

3) Tourism and amenity-based development in rural communities;

4) Competition, cooperation, and local government;

5) Improving rural educational attainment; and

6) Catalytic community development.

All are available for download at http://www.ruralsociology.org.

(Many thanks to Southern Compass for passing this along. Russ)