An important tool for students and scholars, this volume will also be of particular interest to those readers studying population migration and rural communities.

This book contains the latest research on social and economic trends occurring in rural America. It provides a unique focus on rural demography and the interaction between population dynamics and local social and economic change.

USA. Description, based on the population census of 1960, of the rural area population and evaluation of rural farm and rural non-farm residence categories - includes information on rural population age groups and the sex composition ...

This is not new, as rural decline has been affected by the long-term shift from an agriculturally based economy to a service based economy.

Dr. Johnson moves beyond the existing literature on rural-urban population shifts during the past forty years to examine the effects of those shifts on the business infrastructure that supplies goods and services to rural areas in the ...

By describing the special characteristics and needs of rural populations as well as the features they share with urban America, this book clearly demonstrates that a more accurate picture of nonmetropolitan life is essential to ...

The migration from rural areas contributes to the problems of both the city and countryside depopulating rural places at the expense of overcrowded cities. This book focuses on rural development processes, problems, and solutions.