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Butler, Lorna Michael; Coppedge, Robert O. – 1986
A guide for community leaders, extension staff, and community or rural development practitioners outlines the evolution of a regional training model for community-based problem solving in rural areas experiencing economic decline. The paper discusses the model's underlying concepts and implementation process and includes descriptions of four…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Development, Community Involvement
Allen, John C.; Dillman, Don A. – 1994
This book explores how community functions in "Bremer," a small rural town in eastern Washington. Human interactions in a variety of contexts are analyzed within a framework that posits three distinct eras of social and economic organization: community-control, mass-society, and information eras. Contexts examined are farming (the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control