Understanding community economic growth and decline : strategies for sustainable development

chapter Introduction -- part Part I An Examination of Existing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 1 Competing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 2 A Brief History of Economic Growth and Decline -- chapter 3 Growth versus Development -- chapter 4 In Search of a New Understanding -- part Part II Why Local Economies Must Grow: Causes of Increasing Demand -- chapter 5 Economic Stasis: “We Don’t Want to Grow -- We Want to Stand Still” -- chapter 6 Global Forces on Local Economies -- chapter 7 National and State Forces that Impact Local Economies -- chapter 8 Over-Dependence on a Single Company or a Single Industry: Case Studies -- part PART III The Impacts of Insufficient Local Economic Growth -- chapter 9 Impacts on the Secondary and Tertiary Economies -- chapter 10 Reaction Times and Waiting Until it is Too Late -- chapter 11 Community and Citizen Responses -- part Part IV Enhancing the Local “Product” -- chapter 12 Preparing and Selling the Product -- chapter 13 Physical Requisites for Economic Development -- chapter 14 Matching Communities to Optimal Business Development: The “Right Kinds” of Jobs -- chapter 15 Institutional Growth and Economic Development -- chapter 16 Building Amenities to Drive Growth -- chapter 17 Rural Communities and Small Town Economic Development -- part Part V The Process: Initiating and Sustaining Local Economic Growth -- chapter 18 Vision, Planning, and Selling the Plan -- chapter 19 The Timing of the Process -- chapter 20 Team-Building, Budgeting, and Professionalism -- chapter 21 Creating Strategic Alliances for Growth -- chapter 22 Image, Awareness, and Selling Communities to Employers -- chapter 23 Managing Internal Expectations -- chapter 24 Managing Inter-Jurisdictional Relationships -- chapter 25 Business Incubation and Entrepreneurialism as an Economic Growth Generator and State Development Programs -- part Part VI Sinclair Lewis Redux: It Can Happen Here -- chapter 26 Preparing Communities for Economic Development -- chapter 27 Conclusions and Actions/Recommendations.