Building community capacity is a central concern of both policymakers and community residents. Both want to understand why some communities are more successful in achieving positive social, economic and environmental ou ...

Testimony of Roger B. Hammer, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Sustainable Rural Communities Initiative, Oregon State University before the House Interior, Environment & Related Agencies Appropriations Subc ...

Improving the quality of education and encouraging students to stay in school is one possible strategy for reducing poverty and raising local well-being in rural areas. A potential obstacle to this strategy, however, is ...

In 2003 the US Census Bureau found that 11.2% of the United States population was food insecure at some time during the year. The curious nature of such statistics only increases when we shift our gaze to the state of O ...

How does one identify, articulate, and relate the forces and influences at work in different geographic places? A satisfactory answer to this fundamental question is required for the formulation of a place-based public p ...

Maps of the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) are both pragmatic policy tools and powerful visual images with broad appeal. While the growing number of WUI maps serve the same general purpose, this paper demonstrates that W ...