Abstract

Rural Policies for the 19905 presents the nonmetro world according to rural sociologists. It is the latest such effort of the Rural Sociological Society. A similar comprehensive look at rural America, Rural Society in the U.S.: Issues for the 1980s (Dillman & Hobbs, 1982)/ focused on rural research issues rather than rural policy issues. Rural Policies for the 19905 contains 27 chapters by 43 different authors, addressing the predictable topics of the rural poor, the aged, health car~, education, banking, business development, SOIl conservation, forestry, and so forth. Not so predictable is a chapter on "Family Planning and Fertility in International Context," which seems to appear out of nowhere and resides between a chapter on "Rural Transportation" and "Water Quality and Agriculture."

How to Cite:

Nachtigal, P. M., (1993) “Book Review: Rural Policies for the 1990s”, Journal of Research in Rural Education 9(2), 115–117.

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