of spatially defined covariates, rural/urban subset models, and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. Results …

correct, much of Australia will experience droughts even more often. This paper uses the Rural and Regional Families Survey to …

region and retains a large black population. Despite the Black Belt's high poverty rates and relatively slow economic growth …, its large net loss of blacks to urban areas over the course of the twentieth century has effectively ended and more are … now returning. Rural southern blacks still face a low-wage economy and their prospects are conditioned by a legacy of both …

Urban sprawl has been criticized for its disproportionate impact on the environment. Yet urban areas are in fact less … land-intensive than recent rural development patterns. Residential first-movers into such virgin areas may spark waves of … developments. Evidence regarding regional land-use intensities, path-dependence of rural development, and accumulating social costs …

-op membership to rural community population growth is estimated, along with standard growth determinants. With minor exceptions, the … results do not support the expectation that co-ops improve the population growth prospects of rural communities. Currency (or …The social economy holds promise for rural community development through local capacity building, improving political …