The Doing of Rural Community Development Research

Rural Society ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.E. Luloff
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Rural Community Development

scholarly journals Rural Community Development: A Community State Approach

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jon M. Conrad ◽  
Barry C. Field
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
Development Alternatives

Research in rural community development is being pursued in a number of different directions. One of these is the identification and analysis of economic development alternatives facing rural communities. A second is the clarification and study of the preferences that rural communities may have with respect to these alternatives. The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for integrating these two thrusts in rural development research.

scholarly journals Social vitality in rural development research

2013 ◽  
pp. 293-306
Author(s):  
Jovana Cikic
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Rural Community Development

Rural community development is one of the central rural sociological concepts. The idea itself deserves double attention: from the point of its theoretical foundation and from the perspective of the need to be operationalized because of research and rural development planning. In this paper, the idea of rural development is being approached from the aspect of social vitality as a new/old concept. The concept of social vitality is being defined and operationalized in order to indicate the possibilities of this concept as an analytical tool for researching rural development.

Cooperatives in Rural Community Development: A New Framework for Analysis

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Zeuli ◽  
David Freshwater ◽  
Deborah Markley ◽  
David Barkley
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
New Framework

scholarly journals Developing partnerships in a paradigm shift to achieve conservation reality in South Africa

Koedoe ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Els ◽  
J. Du P. Bothma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
The Social

In South Africa, communal rural community development has, for the most part, been viewed as an add-on, rather than as an integral value in the broad spectrum of conservation activities being practised in the country. This paper, therefore, argues for the reality-based adoption of an extension of existing conservation paradigms to incorporate the development of communal rural communities as an integral part of the overall wildlife conservation and management policy in South Africa. The answer to the seeming contradiction in the focus of wildlife conservation and rural development lies in the devel- opment of wildlife management programmes based on multi-disciplinary and multiinstitutional interaction, by also harnessing scientific knowledge and skills found in the social sciences. In this manner, the present largely lip service related to so-called com- munity participation in wildlife management can be changed into programmes which really achieve conservation-based community development enhancing survival for both the communities and their inherent natural resources.

scholarly journals Adoption of Innovation in Small-Scale Forestry: The Case of Portable-Sawmill-Based Microenterprises

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal V Lupo
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Niche Markets ◽  
Rural Community Development ◽  
Adoption Of Innovation ◽  
Adoption Pattern

Microenterprise development can be a valuable societal component not only in terms of filling important niche markets, but also by enhancing a society's wellbeing through creating opportunities available to people who are marginalized by the labor force for one reason or another. Forest microenterprises, in particular, can enhance rural community development efforts, as well as forest conservation goals, by empowering local people to successfully manage their resources as well as offer the possibility of income enhancement (Salafsky, Cordes, Leighton, Henderson, Watt, & Cherry, 1997; Lupo, 2012). This paper explores the adoption of portable-sawmill-based forest microenterprises. Key findings include common factors motivating portable sawmill adoption, as well as a bimodal adoption pattern, supporting previously postulated arguments regarding the importance of creating multiple adoption theories.

Measuring the quality of life in rural community development

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Barnard ◽  
J. N. K. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Community Development
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