The broad objective of the paper is to review the development of federal policy affecting rural areas in Canada and the United States, and to assess its effects on rural residents. In doing this the focus goes beyond policies that are explicitly rural in nature. Today broader social policies are the major federal influence on rural areas in both nations. In part this reflects the simple fact th...

In April 2006, the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) brought together national green building organizations, local rural housing developers, funders, and other stakeholders in the sustainable housing development movement in a roundtable forum to explore aff ordable green housing in rural areas.1 Rural aff ordable green building is an area with little current research and one that is increasingly...

Rural development has not received the priority and attention warranted by the present and future concentration of poverty in rural areas. Is this perhaps because rural development agencies present conflicting narratives? A framework is presented within which to answer that question, and is then applied to the recent policy statements of the EU, FAO, IFAD and the World Bank. Each policy stateme...

The heading 'rural planning' as a sector or government involvement is often absent from plan documents in many countries. But policy and legislation related to agricul tural, transporta tion and comt11unica tions, education, health and human services. and social welfare, sectors generally addressed in plans, have had far reaching and profound impacts on the physical conditions of, and infrastru...

BACKGROUND Policies that improve access to healthy, affordable foods may improve population health and reduce health disparities. In the United States most food access policy research focuses on urban communities even though residents of rural communities face disproportionately higher risk for nutrition-related chronic diseases compared to residents of urban communities. The purpose of this st...

the information and communication technologies (icts) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. obviously, access and application of ict will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. this will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. in iran, importance of using rural ict benefits and advantage...

this study examined barriers of sustainable rural development from perspective of experts in department of rural development in razi university, institute of rural research & development, and organization of rural cooperatives in kermanshah (n=42).the sample size was estimated by population census. the main research instrument for data collection was pre-tested questionnaire. validityof que...

this study determined the situation of rural tourism and agro-tourism in tehran province as well as the expected economic impacts of agro-tourism development on it. in this research, we used documental research method and field research based on questionnaires and face-to-face interview. it was found out that despite different tourist attractions in rural areas of tehran province, tourist arriv...