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Population Change and Rural SocietyRural America through a Demographic Lens

Population Change and Rural Society: Rural America through a Demographic Lens CHAPTER 1 RURAL AMERICA THROUGH A DEMOGRAPHIC LENS DAVID L. BROWN AND WILLIAM A. KANDEL INTRODUCTION st Rural people and communities play a critical role in 21 century American society. The 2000 Census revealed that while eight of 10 Americans live in urban areas, the 56 million rural residents who reside in nonmetropolitan counties exceed the total population of all but 22 of the world’s 200 plus nation-states (Population Reference Bureau, 2000). As Brown and Swanson (2003, p. 1) have commented, “while rural people comprise a minority of the U.S. population, they are a very large minority indeed.” Moreover, this population quintile resides on 80 percent of the nation’s territory that contains most of America’s farmland, energy resources, water, metals, timber, fisheries, wildlife, and open space. This book uses a comprehensive perspective to examine dynamic rela- tionships between contemporary population change and rural society along four dimensions: rural society as a cultural and demographic entity; rural economic life and its continued restructuring; rural territory as a contested natural environment; and rural society as a repository of poverty and economic privilege. Because the work that follows focuses on nonmetropolitan demographic change, it seems fit- ting that this introductory chapter explore http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Population Change and Rural SocietyRural America through a Demographic Lens

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 16)
Editors: Kandel, William A.; Brown, David L.
Brown, David L.; Kandel, William A.
Population Change and Rural Society — Jan 1, 2006
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2006
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978-1-4020-3911-9
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3 –23
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10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_1
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CHAPTER 1 RURAL AMERICA THROUGH A DEMOGRAPHIC LENS DAVID L. BROWN AND WILLIAM A. KANDEL INTRODUCTION st Rural people and communities play a critical role in 21 century American society. The 2000 Census revealed that while eight of 10 Americans live in urban areas, the 56 million rural residents who reside in nonmetropolitan counties exceed the total population of all but 22 of the world’s 200 plus nation-states (Population Reference Bureau, 2000). As Brown and Swanson (2003, p. 1) have commented, “while rural people comprise a minority of the U.S. population, they are a very large minority indeed.” Moreover, this population quintile resides on 80 percent of the nation’s territory that contains most of America’s farmland, energy resources, water, metals, timber, fisheries, wildlife, and open space. This book uses a comprehensive perspective to examine dynamic rela- tionships between contemporary population change and rural society along four dimensions: rural society as a cultural and demographic entity; rural economic life and its continued restructuring; rural territory as a contested natural environment; and rural society as a repository of poverty and economic privilege. Because the work that follows focuses on nonmetropolitan demographic change, it seems fit- ting that this introductory chapter explore

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