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Agriculture, Conservation and Land Use: Law and Policy Issues for Rural Areas

W. Howarth & C. Rodgers (Eds)

Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1992, xi + 280 pp., £35     

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David Terkla is a professor in the Economics Department and Environmental Sciences Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.     

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Books reviewed:
Marian Radetzki (John E. Tilton) The Green Myth — Economic Growth and the Quality of the Environment
Richard Starkey and Richard Welford, eds. (Orland Wilkerson) The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
Edward Goldsmith and Jerry Mander, eds. (Orland Wilkerson) The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards Localization
Susan Perkoff Bass and Manuel Ruiz Muller (Traci Warkentin) Protecting Biodiversity: National Laws Regulating Access to Genetic Resources in the Americas
Tanya M. Shenk and Alan B. Franklin, eds. (Philip LeBel) Modeling in Natural Resource Management: Development, Interpretation, and Application
Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent (Suna Bayrakal) Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy     

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Environmental Groups in Politics

Philip Lowe and Jane Goyder

Resource Management Series 6, George Allen & Unwin, 1983.     

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Jan L. Flora is Professor of Agricultural Economics and Sociology at Viriginia Tech, specializing in the areas of community, agricultural, and rural change in the United States and in developing countries. Current research projects include assessing the role of agrarian reform in Latin American development; a study of adequacy of services to small, minority, and female North Carolina farmers; and directing a nationwide study of rural community grassroots development efforts funded by the US Department of Agriculture. He founded and directed the Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives at Kansas State University from 1987 to 1989. He was a member of the Latin Amercian Studies Association Commission on compliance with the Central American Peace Accords in 1988. Jointly with Cornelia Flora, he has studied dominant approaches to international development in the post-World War II ear. They served as Program Advisor for Agriculture and Rural Development for the Ford Foundation in Bogota, Colombia, from 1978 through 1980. At Virginia Tech, he recently served as campus coordinator for the SARSA project, a cooperative agreement with USAID for conducting research in Third World countries in the areas of natural resource management, rural-urban linkages, and women’s roles in these processes.     

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Drawing on the example of community forestry in British Columbia, Canada, this paper conceptualises and empirically assesses key contributors to successful community economic development, with a special emphasis on the role of local community support and inclusive participation. Relevant scholarship highlights the importance of these factors for achieving success with any community economic development (CED) initiative. While the initial experiences of 10 community forest initiatives under British Columbia's Community Forest Pilot Project offers evidence to corroborate this view, it is also evident that expertise and leadership, even of the exclusive variety, can substitute for community support and participation, if the goal of CED is to create a profitable community enterprise capable of delivering jobs and revenues to community members.