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Exploring local economic development: The challenges of Cape Breton Island

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Gruters, Brian Benedict
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494436707
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Cape Bretton

Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. Yet, throughout its many variations, these initiatives have done little to secure the long-term economic secur ....

Exploring the rural paradox: A spatial investigation of rurality and mortality

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Yang, Tse-Chuan
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Pennsylvania
  • ISBN: 9781124324609
  • Country: United States

While life expectancy in the U.S. has lengthened over the 20th century, demographic sub-populations have not shared this improvement equally. Health disparities exist along several social dimensions such as gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Among them, somewhat less attention has been paid to geographic health disparitie ....

Exploring the sustainability of place: A case study of community-based nature tourism

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Sammy, Joy
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Guelph (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494678329
  • Country: Ghana

Sustainable development which integrates conservation and development has proven to be a very complicated issue; how dowe humans manage our use of the environment in such a way that does not only decrease human poverty but also encourages human development while at the same time protecting and restoring biodiversity and the life-sustaining f ....

Fields of dreams: Agriculture, economy and nature in Midwest United States biofuel production

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Gillon, Sean Thomas
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9781124967783
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Iowa

This work explores the social and ecological dimensions of recent biofuel production increases in the United States (US), focusing on the case of Iowa. Biofuels are proposed to mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, improve US energy security, and support rural economies. Little research has examined how increased US Mid ....

Fostering a newly defined entrepreneurship in impoverished communities: A key component of the solution for eradicating poverty in America

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Sinha, Sachidanand
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Southern California
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9780549610168
  • Country: United States

This study takes a fresh look at why high levels of poverty persist in certain American neighborhoods despite billions of dollars having been invested over decades by the government. To overcome this problem, the author proposes a New Entrepreneurial Initiative (NEI) as a policy solution. The thesis of the NEI is that to eradicate persi ....

From Vulnerability to Sustainability: Rural Development in the Poyang Lake Region of China amid Institutional Changes and Flood Hazards

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Tian, Qing
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Michigan
  • Published Location: United States -- Michigan
  • ISBN: 9781267135964
  • Country: China
  • State/Region: Poyang Lake Region

With still-low development levels and relatively high risks from climatic impacts, the less developed world faces a greater challenge for future development than developed economies. Applying the science of complexity to study human-environment systems (CHES) and integrating ideas from climate change research into a larger framework of ....

Global agricultural price supports: The political and economic forces that drive unsustainable agricultural protectionism policy

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Hays, John Francis
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The University of Southern Mississippi
  • Published Location: United States -- Mississippi
  • ISBN: 9781124110998
  • Country: United States, Europe

Agricultural tariffs and price supports are the last bastion of US and European protectionism. While all other areas of commerce have embraced change and welcomed open-market international commerce, agriculture has remained the lone holdout. The small farmers for whom these support programs were designed no longer exist. Yet governments app ....

Governance Institutions and the Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Two Rural Communities in Alberta

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Isaac, Kendra Joan
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Alberta (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494680346
  • Country: Canada

Adaptation is now recognized as an important aspect of responses to climate change. Rural communities in the prairie provinces of Canada are considered to be sensitive to the impacts of climate change due to socio-economic and geographical factors. This study examines the ways in which governance institutions shape the ability of two ru ....

Growth management and direct democracy

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Wei, Dehui
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: Cornell University
  • Published Location: United States -- New York
  • ISBN: 9781267299109
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Massachusetts

Studies on policy adoption have hypothesized that growth management policies are adopted in response to growth and community socioeconomic status and under state intervention. However, mixed results from empirical studies suggest that varying political processes behind policy adoption may translate similar local status into different po ....

Highway Investment: Its Causes and Effects on Growth and Housing

  • Year: 2012
  • Author: Black, A.P.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The George Washington University
  • Published Location: United States -- District of Columbia
  • ISBN: 9781267127327
  • Country: United States

This dissertation explores three areas related to highway investment and answers three key questions: What effect does local and national political representation have on additions to highway capacity? What is the relationship between highway capacity and productivity at the county level? Does the highway regulatory process restrict the supp ....

Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs

  • Year: 2010
  • Author: Smith, Richard John
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • Published Location: United States -- California
  • ISBN: 9781124554693
  • Country: United States

This study is about the role of immigrants and minority businesses in a recent community development initiative administered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Federal Renewal Community, Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (RC/EZ/EC) programs spanned the Clinton and Bush administrations and promised t ....

Impact and Benefit Agreements and the political ecology of mineral development in Nunavut

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Hitch, Michael William
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Waterloo (Canada)
  • Published Location: Canada
  • ISBN: 9780494144763
  • Country: Canada
  • State/Region: Nunavut

Mining has been a major economic activity in the Canadian Arctic for the last century. It has made a valuable contribution to the development of this fragile economy and to the living standards of its inhabitants. The benefits include jobs and income, tax revenues and the social programs they finance, foreign exchange earnings, frontier ....

Impacts of telecommunications infrastructure and its spillover effects on regional economic growth in China

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Liu, Yanchun
  • Editors: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: George Mason University
  • Published Location: United States -- Virginia
  • ISBN: 9780549952381
  • Country: China

This dissertation empirically tests the impacts of telecommunications infrastructure as well as its spillover effects on regional economic growth in China. Based on data for 29 regions of China for the period 1986-2006, a panel data approach is used in the context of conditional convergence theory for estimation. A modified shift-share ....

Infrastructure investment and economic development

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Hao, Janet Xiaohui
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Maryland, College Park
  • Published Location: United States -- Maryland
  • ISBN: 9780549159964
  • Country: United States

State and local governments invested 13% of their revenues on infrastructure in 2002, but existing literature provides only mixed evidence that infrastructure contributes to economic activity. To estimate the effect of infrastructure on the economy, Chapter 1 analyzes how the construction of the Interstate Highway System (IHS) contribut ....

Institutional choice in local economic development organizations

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Park, Jongsun
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The Florida State University
  • Published Location: United States -- Florida
  • ISBN: 9781109656169
  • Country: United States

Economic development is always a central concern for local governments, and has become increasingly important as the federal role in this area has been reduced in the last two decades. More recently, county governments have extended their activities in order to be closer to the people having greater needs and preferences resulting from ....

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