Week 6 (2/20): Livelihood Conservation Strategies & Vitality of Rural Communities

Presenter: Sibella Kraus

Topic: TBA

Arendt, Randall, Elizabeth Brabec, Harry L. Dodson, Christine Reid and Robert D.Yaro. 1994. Rural By Design: Maintaining Small Town Character. Chicago: American Planning Association Press, 289-314.

Northrup, Benjamin A., & Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb. 2003. Country and City: The Common Vision of Agrarians and New Urbanists. In Norman Wirzba (ed.) The Essential Agrarian Reader. Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard, pp. 191-211.

DeLind, Laura. 2002. Place, work, and civic agriculture: Common fields for cultivation. Agriculture and Human Values 19:217-224.

Mariola, Matthew J. 2005. Losing ground: Farmland preservation, economic utilitarianism, and the erosion of the agrarian ideal. Agriculture & Human Values 22:209-223.

Foster, Richard H. and Mark K. McBeth. 1996. Urban-rural influences in U.S. environmental and economic development policy. Journal of Rural Studies 12(4):387-397.

Halweil, Brian. 2004. Chapter 4: Where Have All the Farmers Gone? Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch, 59-78.

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