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Homegrown Responses to Economic Uncertainty in Rural America

September 22, 2009 /

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Rural communities have been hard hit by the recession, but those that have
approached economic development by looking inward to community strengths and
existing resources are often faring better than those that attempt to lure companies
to relocate by promising low wages and tax incentives. The latter can no longer
compete in a global economy.

Three strategies for homegrown reinvention include place-based development,
economic gardening, and creativity and talent cultivation.

By Jonathan Q. Morgan, William Lambe and Allan Freyer

Full Story: http://ruralsociology.org/StaticContent/Publications/Ruralrealities/pubs/RuralRealities3-2.pdf?mc_cid=24ab5de5f2&mc_eid=dfa0607b67