1st Edition
Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy
Introduction: Rural wealth creation as a sustainable economic development strategy Shanna Ratner and Deborah Markley
1. Facilitating community wealth building: understanding the roles played and capacities needed by coordinating institutions Thomas S. Lyons and Barbara Wyckoff
2. Socioeconomic development in an ultra-peripheral European region: the role of a food regulatory council as a social anchor Abel Duarte Alonso
3. Community forests as a wealth creation strategy for rural communities Martha West Lyman, Curt Grimm and Julie Renaud Evans
4. Community development and other extra-religious functions of Islamic schools: a contemporary perspective from the voices of stakeholders in two madrassas in Pakistan Omer Aijazi and Leonora C. Angeles
5. International amenity migration: implications for integrated community development opportunities Gerardo Cortes, David Matarrita-Cascante and Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
6. A story about storytelling: enhancement of community participation through catalytic storytelling Mikulas Pstross, Craig A. Talmage and Richard C. Knopf
Biography
Shanna Ratner is the founder of Yellow Wood Associates, a woman-owned small business, based in St. Alban’s City, VT, USA, which specializes in community economic development in rural America.
Deborah Markley is the co-founder of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, a national non-profit based in Lincoln, NE, USA, which works with communities across North America to create and implement entrepreneurship development strategies.
