Best practices in twenty-first-century rural development and policy

Growth and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-164

  Rose Olfert, M ^a   Partridge, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ENTREPRENEUR; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POPULATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77954118175     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2010.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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