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Download full textHowell, Robert E.; Bentley, Marion T. – 1986
Part of a series on economic recovery strategies and techniques for assessing, managing, and mitigating the impacts of economic decline resulting from plant closures, substantial layoffs, or plant relocation, this paper presents a model local leaders can use to analyze, plan, and organize activities. As a means of illustrating the kinds of impacts…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Involvement, Crisis Management
Sandmann, Lorilee R. – 1988
Rural and economic development efforts are inadequate responses to changing rural conditions. They fail because they are often top-down driven and few influential people are involved. Minnesota's Project Future is designed to help distressed communities take charge of their own direction. Developed on the principle of collective empowerment, this…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Citizen Participation, Community Action
Dilts, Russ; And Others – 1986
A non-government program trains local action-researchers from villages of Java, Indonesia, to work for grass-roots social change within their communities. Begun in 1977, the program trains local men and women to work with their neighbors to revitalize existing institutions and to gain control over the development programs and social services…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Change Agents, Citizen Participation
Mueller, E. W. – 1971
ASCILOS, an acronym for a symbiotic community in the land of the Sioux, is a new land settlement pattern designed by the Center for Community Organization and Area Development (CENCOAD), sponsored by Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ASCILOS covers a 60-mile radius around Sioux Falls. ASCILOS, based on symbiosis in nature, assumes that…
Descriptors: Church Role, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Attitudes
Peer reviewedO'Cinneide, Micheal S. – Research in Rural Education, 1987
Describes adult educational program by University College Galway in rural West Ireland, following significant out-migration of young people. Aim is to encourage development initiatives, community participation, and self help. Program includes lectures, seminars, and class projects. Program's successes noted. (Author/TES)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Change, Community Development
Deaton, Brady J. – 1979
There is no present consensus regarding long-term consequences of rural industrialization on society. Since 1950, smaller rural communities in the South and Southwestern United States have gained in industrialization due to their generally low-wage non-union labor supply and lower tax structure, both attractive to industry seeking greater profits.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Development, Community Involvement
