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The impact of social capital on well-being in rural communities

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Harrison, Jane L.

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This study seeks to explore the relationship between social capital and well-being in the rural Western United States. Mixed methods were employed to understand the concepts from multiple angles, using both profile and process indicators. An econometric approach used profile indicators and relied on data from 414 counties in the...

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assesses social capital and community well-being using both profile and process indicators (Beckley et al
The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

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Crandall, Mindy S.

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The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...

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sociological (power- based theories and social constructions of nature) (Stedman, Parkins, and Beckley 2004