Small town triage: a rural settlement policy for the American Midwest

Daniels, Tom; Lapping, Mark B.

doi:10.1016/0743-0167(87)90075-1

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“…were not alone in their assessment of the possible end state of population shifts nor in advocating for the reintroduction of buffalo to the Great Plains. Based on consideration of declining small towns and their stagnant economies in Iowa (outside the Great Plains), Daniels and Lapping (1987) advocated that regional governments in the US embark on "a regional settlement policy" similar to that in the United Kingdom, by promoting the creation of regional centers of 2500-15000 people to take advantage of economies of scale for the provision of public services. "Small town triage" would be applied, in which growing towns would receive government aid at the expense of those showing less promise.…”

Section: 5: Perspectives On the Future Of The Great Plainsmentioning

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Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

2013

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The conversion of land from existing uses to biofuel cultivation is expected to increase given concerns about the sustainability of fossil fuel supplies. Nonetheless, research into the environmental impacts of biofuel crops, primarily the hydrological impacts of their cultivation, is in its infancy. To investigate such issues, the response of a 1,649 km2 semiarid basin to the incremental substitution of the widely discussed biofuel candidate switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) for native land uses was modeled using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Median discharges decreased by 5.6–20.6% during the spring and by 6.4–31.2% during the summer, depending on the quantity of acreage converted. These were driven by an increased spring and summer evapotranspiration of 3.4–32.0% and 1.5–18.9%, respectively, depending on the quantity of switchgrass biomass produced. The substitution of switchgrass also resulted in larger quantities of water stress days than in baseline scenarios. The authors encourage the exploration of alternative biofuel crops in semiarid areas to mitigate such negative impacts.

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Section: 5: Perspectives On the Future Of The Great Plainsmentioning

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Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

2013

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“…Consequently, the creation of a positive dynamic is hampered. In addition, small remote towns with under 2,500 inhabitants are found to lack the necessary resources to initiate a process of endogenous growth (Daniels and Lapping 1987) and the identification of possible growth centres by the administration poses great difficulties. Therefore, respective growth pole concepts were discredited over time (Irwin et al 2010).…”

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A Constructive Critique of the Endogenous Development Approach in the European Support of Rural Areas

Margarian

2013

Growth and Change

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In recent years, the endogenous development (ED) approach has gained influence within the rhetoric of European rural development policies (RP). This paper provides a fundamental critique of the approach and shows that neither the economic elements of RP in general nor ED in particular are targeted towards the specific economic needs and capabilities of rural areas. The second part of this paper consists of the search for possible alternative concepts for a more targeted and effective RP. Based on a synopsis of existing theories, an integrated approach is proposed that builds upon the different coordination mechanisms for economic activity suggested by different theories. The new, integrated perspective enables an economic characterisation of rural areas and indicates that the successful support of local coordination of economic activity is determined by specific local conditions. It also makes evident that localised approaches usually cannot compensate rural areas for the lack of agglomeration advantages. Therefore, programmes for the economic development of rural areas which support the local coordination of economic activity remain a second-best policy. As such, they do not free the state from policies of spatial redistribution if the political aim is the creation of comparable living conditions.

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“…Abandonment is advocated by strategies such as triage (Daniels & Lapping, 1987;Miernyk, 1967), which would redirect the limited economic and governmental resources toward the towns most likely to grow, and the proposal for a &dquo;buffalo commons&dquo; (Popper & Popper, 1987), which would depopulate a large portion of the Great Plains through resettlement and create a vast national prairie. The problems some towns face may be short term, especially in the Great Plains; that is, how to die with dignity and forethought (Patricio, 1990).…”

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“…Like proposals for community triage (Daniels & Lapping, 1987), a serious proposal for a community hospice model would be controversial. As the director of the Office of Rural Development at Kansas State University (R. Wilson, personal communication, May, 1992) commented, It's an intriguing proposal, but I haven't found local leaders who are willing to talk about it publicly, though a few will talk about it privately.…”

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“…Towns more than 30 miles from a large community that can provide the range of goods and services judged necessary for a decent quality of life are losing or have lost their main streets, their health services, their schools, and much of their tax base (Jacobsen & Albertson, 1987); their survival is at risk (Daniels & Lapping, 1987). In some towns, the transformation of older homes into low-income rental housing for younger poor has led to stigmatization of place (Fitchen, 1990) that may divide or eventually engulf the entire community.…”

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The Environmental Context of Poverty Among Older Residents of Economically Endangered Kansas Towns

Scheidt

Norris-Baker

1993

J Appl Gerontol

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This article reports results of a field study of the impact of acute and chronic economic stressors on elderly residents of four economically threatened small towns in Kansas. Guided by a conceptual model of environmental stress, risks and benefits associated with everyday life m these towns for older residents are explored for four issues: health risks, the health/housing dialectic, maintaining psychological control, and risks to community identity. Psychological and behavioral strategies employed by older residents as well as communities to deal with changes in these areas are illustrated. It is suggested that community intervention models (e.g., community development, empowerment, triage, or hospice) attempting to stabilize, rejuvenate, or resurrect economically endangered towns must consider a variety of context-specific needs and resources within and between communities. Recommendations for intervention are offeredfor rural practitioners (health professionals, community planners, housing experts) and policymakers . Rural communities face unprecedented economic and social challenges as agriculture restructures and America enters its third century. The costs of assisting that transition pale when compared to those of ignoring it. (U.S. Senate, 1986, p. 56) Economic restructuring in rural communities has had dramatic consequences that have contributed to a decline in the quality of social and community life (Bergland, 1988). Data on rural poverty indicate that the decline and demise of small rural communities are widespread (Coward, 1987;Fitchen, 1991) and that economic stress will continue and perhaps increase in many rural communities in the foreseeable future (Johansen & Fuguitt, 1990). Fitchen has observed, &dquo;because poverty is increasing in rural America, the community context may be deteriorating for the nation's oldest rural people, whether or not they themselves are poor&dquo; (Fitchen, 1990, p. 32).

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Small town triage: a rural settlement policy for the American Midwest

Cited by 38 publications

References 2 publications

Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

A Constructive Critique of the Endogenous Development Approach in the European Support of Rural Areas

The Environmental Context of Poverty Among Older Residents of Economically Endangered Kansas Towns

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