Beliefs, customs, narratives and other unofficial traditions that are passed on and shared by a group of people.
Beliefs, customs, narratives and other unofficial traditions that are passed on and shared by a group of people.
The manipulation of a fishery to produce a desired end result.
Specially trained personnel who are equipped with protective devices to extinguish fires.
Firms that channel funds and securities between savers and borrowers.
Major motion pictures in which natural and economic forces pose threats to the rural way of life, or in which a non-urban backdrop forms a significant element.
Animal feeding operations, as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1976 as a result of the Clean Water Act of 1972; areas where animals are stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days per year or more in any 12-month period, and crops, vegetation, forage growth or post-harvest residues are not sustained in the area of confinement during the normal growing season.
Tracts of land devoted to agricultural purposes. This article describes types of farms and why there is an interest in the various types.
The process of managing business firms producing primary agricultural products.
The process of acquiring and using capital in agriculture. This article addresses the sources of financing used by farmers: equity and debt funds. It examines several of the ways credit is used in the farm business and some of the investment decisions farm operators must make.
Two or more persons related by kinship or nonkinship ties, who share emotional attachments and a variety of family roles and functions.
The perception that groups have, concerning either themselves or others, that they are unique, that they have a special social and cultural heritage, received and passed on from one generation to the next.
Either the normative, philosophical study of principles, rules or standards that define moral rightness or wrongness, or the actual moral practices of people.
The actions needed to protect the environment from pollution or destruction.
Non-declining natural capital (nature’s stocks that yield a flow of services or resources into the future), keeping natural capital intact, or maintaining the source and sink capacities of the ecosystem.
Government rules, orders, and procedures dealing with the environment.
he maintenance of surrounding environment to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of human communities and the protection of life on the planet.
The environmental movement is perhaps the single largest social movement in the world. In the U.S.
The interaction of humans and nature through time. The field of environmental history was born from the environmental movement.
The study of the obligations moral agents have to the environment and the elements that make up its parts.
Developing new businesses in rural economies.
The total number of labor force participants with jobs.
Individuals who create and help implement those activities that reduce vulnerability to natural and manmade hazards and disasters in public and private sector organizations at the local, county, state, regional, national, and international levels.
The process of extending central station electric service through a network of transmission and distribution lines to make electricity readily available for use where needed. This article describes the difficult task of electrifying the vast rural areas of the U.S.
Adults age 65 or older. A brief profile of adults age 65 or older who live in rural America is provided and the state of knowledge about important aspects of growing old in a rural environment is summarized in this article.
