This book is written for you, the 4-H Youth Leader. Its purpose is to provide you with practical and effective leadership ideas and tools that you can use with your 4-H club. As a 4-H leader, you'll be helping to guide the development of your club members. Don't be worried...
The papers in this collection grew out of an organized symposium at the 1998 meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association: "Conceptual Foundations of Economic Research in Rural Studies." The symposium was organized to provide a forum for discussion of the new frameworks of rural capital and economic geography, to...
Published 1979. Reprinted June 1984. Facts and recommendations in the publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Published March 1979. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Objectives
The research project from which this publication stems, "Institutional Structures for Improving Rural Community Services," proposed to identify those leadership and organizational variables which might be altered to improve the institutional structures for providing public services to rural areas. Implicitly, the project proposal recognized that many declining rural communities...
Before developing a plan or deciding to add facilities to increase tourist potential, ask the question, "Is it worth it? Will tourism do for this community what we want done?''
The cost-benefit technique balances costs against benefits to show the estimated net effects of a plan. The study may be...
In analyzing tourism, we want to know how many visitors will be coming to visit and how much they will spend, so that we can evaluate:
• Whether existing facilities can handle the visitors expected.
• Whether it will be profitable to make preparations for increased tourists.
It is important...
The money tourists spend in a community is the benefit which people probably recognize most readily. Other benefits might include improved recreation facilities, expanded cultural and social opportunities, and pride in one's community, but additional dollars provide the usual appeal for tourism development. These dollars benefit sectors throughout the community,...
Impact studies that examine the economic effects within a community of development projects such as a new hotel are usually confined to a fiscal analysis of local government costs and revenues. But increasing emphasis on the total environment-social, biological, and business-calls for an appraisal of broader impacts within the community...
Designing A Citizen Involvement Program presents a model and supportive materials that can be used to design and implement a program for involving citizens in decision-making that concerns significant environmental issues. These actions might be large-scale construction projects, such as building a dam, an electric power plant, or a nuclear...