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Book The Road to Poverty

Download or read book The Road to Poverty written by Dwight B. Billings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially po or section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.

Book Abstracts of Recent Published Material on Soil and Water Conservation

Download or read book Abstracts of Recent Published Material on Soil and Water Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts for Dec. 1954- issued in the Agricultural Research Service's series ARS-41.

Book Who Owns Appalachia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-10-21
  • ISBN : 0813185742
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Who Owns Appalachia written by Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people. Begun in 1978 and extending through 1980, this survey of land ownership is notable for the magnitude of its coverage. It embraces six states of the southern Appalachian region—Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama. From these states the research team selected 80 counties, and within those counties field workers documented the ownership of over 55,000 parcels of property, totaling over 20 million acres of land and mineral rights. The survey is equally significant for its systematic investigation of the relations between ownership and conditions within Appalachian communities. Researchers compiled data on 100 socioeconomic indicators and correlated these with the ownership of land and mineral rights. The findings of the survey form a generally dark picture of the region—local governments struggling to provide needed services on tax revenues that are at once inadequate and inequitable; economic development and diversification stifled; increasing loss of farmland, a traditional source of subsistence in the region. Most evident perhaps is the adverse effect upon housing resulting from corporate ownership and land speculation. Nor is the trend toward greater conglomerate ownership of energy resources, the expansion of absentee ownership into new areas, and the search for new mineral and energy sources encouraging. Who Owns Appalachia? will be an enduring resource for all those interested in this region and its problems. It is, moreover, both a model and a document for social and economic concerns likely to be of critical importance for the entire nation.

Book Miscellaneous Publication

Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poor  a Selected Bibliography

Download or read book The Poor a Selected Bibliography written by Peter R. Maida and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Challenges for Appalachia  energy  Environment  and Natural Resources

Download or read book Challenges for Appalachia energy Environment and Natural Resources written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Appalachian New Deal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry Bruce Thomas
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780813120645
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book An Appalachian New Deal written by Jerry Bruce Thomas and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression had already begun in West Virginia before the stock market crash of November 1929 and lasted until the coming of war in 1941. In tracing the responses of the people and government of West Virginia during the Depression, historian Jerry Thomas not only deals with politics and institutions but also tells about ordinary people during the worst conditions in the state's history. 18 photos.

Book Appalachia

Download or read book Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Local Food Systems  Concepts  Impacts  and Issues

Download or read book Local Food Systems Concepts Impacts and Issues written by Steve Martinez and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.

Book Readings in Managerial Economics

Download or read book Readings in Managerial Economics written by Thomas Joseph Coyne and published by Plano, Tex. : Business Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 3522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Works Appropriations for 1970 for Water and Power Resources Development and the Atomic Energy Commission

Download or read book Public Works Appropriations for 1970 for Water and Power Resources Development and the Atomic Energy Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Works for Water  Pollution Control  and Power Development  and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970

Download or read book Public Works for Water Pollution Control and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Role of Education in Alleviating Rural Poverty

Download or read book The Role of Education in Alleviating Rural Poverty written by Luther G. Tweeten and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Low income Farm People

Download or read book Low income Farm People written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appalachia America

Download or read book Appalachia America written by Wilson Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: