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Rural Policies for the 1990s

RURAL STUDIES SERIES
of the
Rural Sociological Society

Editorial Board

Chair, Ronald C. Wimberley, North Carolina University
Lorna Butler, Washington State University
William D. Clifford, North Carolina State University
Forrest A. Deseran, Louisiana State University
Donald R. Field, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Linda Lobao, Ohio State University

Rural Studies Series

Rural Policies for the 1990s, edited by Cornelia B. Flora and James A. Christenson

The Future of Rural America: Anticipating Policies for Constructive Change, edited by Kenneth E. Pigg

Electric Power for Rural Growth: How Electricity Affects Rural Life in Developing Countries, by Douglas F. Barnes

The Rural South in Crisis: Challenges for the Future, edited by Lionel J. Beaulieu

Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea: The State and the Green Revolution, by Larry L. Burmeister

Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures, edited by Wava G. Haney and Jane B. Knowles

Whose Trees? Proprietary Dimensions of Forestry, edited by Louise Fortmann and John W. Bruce

My Own Boss? Class, Rationality, and the Family Farm, by Patrick H. Mooney

Agriculture and Community Change in the U.S.: The Congressional Research Reports, edited by Louis E. Swanson

Small Farms: Persistence with Legitimation, by Alessartdro Bonanno

Family Farming in Europe and America, edited by Boguslaw Galeski and Eugene Wilkening

Studies in the Transformation of U.S. Agriculture, edited by A. Eugene Havens with Gregory Hooks, Patrick H. Mooney, and Max J. Pfeffer

Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas: A Festschrift for Eugene A. Wilkening, edited by Gene F. Summers

Rural Policies for the 1990s

EDITED BY
Cornelia B. Flora
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
and
James A. Christenson
University of Arizona

First published 1991 by Westview Press

Published 2019 by Routledge
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Copyright 1991 by the Rural Sociological Society

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rural policies for the 1990s / edited by Cornelia B. Flora and James
A. Christenson.
p. cm. (Rural studies series of the Rural Sociological
Society)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-7815-X ISBN 0-8133-7816-8 (pbk.)
1. Rural developmentGovernment policyUnited States. 2. United
StatesRural conditions. 3. United StatesSocial
conditions1980- . I. Flora, Cornelia Butler, 1943
II. Christenson, James A., 1944- . III. Series.
HN90.C6R815 1991
307.72'0973dc20 90-22323
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-28636-1 (hbk)

Contents

1. iii

Guide

The way in which scientists look at problems is reconstructed in Rural Policies for the 1990s. Philosophers of science once conceptualized such developments as logic-in-use, which is the flow of thinking and experiences scientists have from day to day, and reconstructed logic, periodic syntheses that reconstruct scientific and scholarly perspectives.

Like the comprehensive Rural Society in the U.S.: Issues for the 1980s, edited by Don Dillman and Daryl Hobbs (Westview, 1982), Rural Policies for the 1990s sets the tone for a decade. Whereas the first book reconstructed rural sociology in terms of research issues, Rural Policies for the 1990s reconstructs rural sociology in terms of policy issues that include past, present, and future research and theory. In each chapter, rural policy needs are identified by examining the flow of events and rural sociology of the 1980s.

The effectiveness of this book's mission to address rural policies may be measured by the extent to which it influences the logic-in-use that shapes such policies. Effectiveness may also be measured by how much disadvantages in rural America are prevented. And Rural Policies for the 1990s will, we hope, result in improved conditions for rural people and places. Not only is this desired, it is intended.

Ronald C. Wimberley
Chair, Editorial Board
Rural Studies Series
The Rural Sociological Society

Critical Times for Rural America: The Challenge for Rural Policy in the 1990s

Cornelia B. Flora and James A. Christenson

Whereas the 1970s was the decade of rural renaissance and turnaround, the 1980s was the decade of rural decline and turnback. Poverty in rural areas increased, as did unemployment rates and environmental problems. The 1990s will be a decade of decision for U.S. leaders regarding rural America: Either we will have two Americas, geographically and economically distinct, with the rural one considerably disadvantaged compared to the urban one, or efforts will be made to promote equity and opportunities for rural people in rural areas.

The rural disadvantage is not inevitable. Public choices are made at the local, state, and federal levels that can reverse current trends. While fiscal and monetary policy and general economic restructuring are major causes of the current problems, specific policies targeted to counteract them can make a difference.

Rural areas are crucial for the nation as a whole. The existence of rural communities provides all citizens a choice of places to live. Rural areas and people are also key for the economy of the entire nation. Not only are rural areas the primary sites for the extraction of raw materials, but they provide a major source of labor, capital, and international exchange for the rest of the economy as well.

Rural peoples serve as the guardians of our natural resources. The quality and quantity of the water we use is in part determined by how well watersheds are managed in rural areas. Rural areas receive the garbage and polluted air from the cities, and either provide a system to purify and recycle urban waste, or reinsert it into the environment in dangerous ways. We spend millions of dollars to plant trees in urban areas, but stimulate the cutting of rural forests at home and abroad. Rural areas exist as the spaces between urban areas. The quality of the transportation infrastructure determines the ability of major urban areas to move goods and people from place to place.

Rural peoples have a relative advantage in problem solution compared with urban people. Many of the same problems, such as poverty and pollution, exist in both places. But the scale of the problems and the cultural traditions of participation make the potential for successful problem solving greater in rural areas, given adequate resources and favorable policies. Rural people can be the innovators for problem solutions that can then be transferred to urban areas.

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