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Jacobsen, Mike; And Others – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1987
The principles of Gandhi are applied to the rural crisis in America with special attention to rural Iowa. Approaches to rural reconstruction and development are proposed which emphasize human-scale development, community-owned enterprises, local community development foundations, maximum feasible participation, broad-based land ownership, and…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Development, Decentralization, Land Acquisition
Download full textJenkins, Dorothy I.; Jenkins, Quentin A. L. – 1998
Rural community development is undergoing changing visions, activities, and methodologies. Factors impacting this change include decentralization, budget reduction in the public sector, and globalization and downsizing in the private sector. Community "building" (community-generated change and emphasis on capacities rather than…
Descriptors: Action Research, American Indians, Community Control, Community Development
