Flora and Flora Publish Third Edition
of Rural Communities: Legacy and Change
 
The new edition of "Rural Communities: Legacy and Change," a core text for rural sociology courses, includes major conceptual and topical developments of the past several years, presenting a practical framework for students to understand the internal and external forces shaping rural communities today. Focusing on various capitals in rural areas--natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial and built--the book uses an integrative approach based on the concepts and explanations of social science.

Updates to the third edition include a new chapter on governance, as well as new material on increasing tensions over international immigration, the differential impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on rural communities and rural people, and the rural impacts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the South. The authors also examine the international trade regime and economic restructuring, and the choices for communities and regions in the face of these changes.

There is thorough coverage of issues such as racial and cultural diversity, globalization and rural communities, the central role of communities in organizing a sustainable future, and building community in the context of ubiquitous change. Chapter-opening vignettes with real people and events illustrate the appplication of important concepts.

"Rural Communities: Legacy and Change," written by Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora, is available from Westview Press at http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813343771.