Regarding Incentives, Wages & Subsidies
	Planning Development in Rural Areas
	Beyond the Eye of the Beholder
	Evaluation Report Aiken/Edgefield/Saluda Counties Regional Sewer Line Infrastructure Demonstration Project
	Delivery Of Resource Information To Local Entities In Rural Areas And Small Towns
	Delivering Social and Human Services
	See Also: Community and Economics Development Projects, Research Reports and Papers

The Rural South: Preparing for the 21st Century The Southern Rural Development Center's Millennium Series focuses on eight themes to address the challenges that the South's rural areas face in the twenty-first century. A Focus on the 21stCcentury:  New SRDC Policy Series on the Rural South Outlines the themes of the series. Lionel J. Beaulieu Southern Rural Development Center January 2000, No. 1 The Rural South: From Shadows to Sunshine Addresses strengthening the South by reaching across race, class, and institutional lines, investing in human capital to produce an educated, trained workforce, and recognizing the importance of technology to economic development. William F. Winter Watkins, Ludlum, Winter, and Stennis January 2000, No. 2 The South's Rural Community Colleges in the New Millennium Stuart A. Rosenfeld, Regional Technical Strategies, Inc. January 3, No. 3 The changing nature of community colleges, how they contribute to economic development today, and responses to the next set of challenges and opportunities.

	Land Prices and the Changing Geography of Southern Row Crop Agriculture Examines the urbanization that has driven up the cost of farmland in 12 Southern states. It looks at the implications for land use conversion, agricultural development, and community and rural development. The information allows states to evaluate what areas are still attractive to farming and to estimate the money required to protect this farmland by buying the development rights. James C. Hite, Emily J. Terrell and Kang Shou Lu, Southern Rural Development Center, July 1999.
	The Changing Nature of Work in the South: The Polarization of Tomorrow's Workforce Reviews labor market changes, discussing the educational requirements needed to qualify for the fastest growing occupations in the region. Southern Rural Development Center Melissa A. Barfield and Lionel J. Beaulieu. June 1999
	Linking Community Development with National Forest Planning and Management in the South Studies communities dependent on public land management. It offers recommendations on how forest planning can stimulate strategic community development in forest-dependent communities. Donald E. Voth, et. al., Southern Rural Development Center, June 1999.
	Welfare Reform Briefs The passage of major welfare reform in the U.S. now places state and local governments in an active role in addressing the public assistance needs of their people. The Southern Rural Development Center, in partnership with the land-grant institutions in the region and the Farm Foundation, is seeking to shed light on the host of challenges and opportunities that face governments, communities and people as product of this landmark legislation. The information briefs address a variety of welfare reform issues in the U.S. South with special attention dedicated to the rural South.

Planning Communities for the 21st Century This American Planning Association report contains detailed analyses of the planning statutes of all 50 states to determine how well they address contemporary planning issues. Maryland, New jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Washington, which have taken major initiatives in reforming planning legislation and working with local governments, are profiled. It also describes recent legislative efforts to modernize planning statutes.

	Coping with Change A series of five publications on fiscal impact studies, public policy education, economic impacts, needs assessment techniques, and population change published by the Western Rural Development Center.
	Small Towns Publications of the Western Rural Development Center on business recruitment and marketing for small towns.
	A Community Assessment Tourism Handbook A nine-step guide designed to help a community to decide whether tourism development is right for a community published by the Western Rural Development Center.
	Tourism A series of publications on the economic impacts of tourism on a community including cost-benefit analysis published by the Western Rural Development Center.
	1997 National Resources Inventory Web Site This inventory covers nonfederal land in the United Sates, 75 percent of the country's land base. Conducted every five years, it includes data from 800,000 statistically selected locations on land cover, land use, soil erosion, prime farmland soils, wetlands, habitat diversity, and other natural resources information. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service with Iowa State University

Socioeconomic Data for Economic Development: An Assessment Full Report (200 pages) Executive Summary (11 pages) The assessment provides an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the current federal data system, and recommendations for improving the relevance, timeliness, and accessibility of socioeconomic data for research and practice. The report was funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. More specifically, the report provides: an explanation of the federal system for producing regional socioeconomic data, including key agencies, coordination mechanisms, operating guidelines, and recent critiques; a profile of socioeconomic data users, based on the survey results; data user ratings and comments on over 50 federal and other data series and sources; findings concerning many practitioners' lack of education about data resources, the complexity of the federal system, insufficient federal budgets for regional data, and the lack of ongoing communication between data users and providers; and recommendations for actions to address these concerns by federal statistical agencies, the Office of Management and Budget, EDA, and the trade associations representing data users.

Out of Reach: The Gap Between Housing Costs and Income for Poor People in the United States This report analyzes the problems renters looking for affordable housing are likely to face in the private rental market. Data is available for every county in the nation. Cushing N. Dolbeare, National Low Income Housing Coalition, September 1999. Additional resources on low income housing issues.

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