This study analyzes the links between planning, the built environment, and availability of health... more This study analyzes the links between planning, the built environment, and availability of health-related community services across U.S. urban and rural communities. We analyze the first national survey of health-related community services for seniors (2010 Maturing of America), covering 1,459 U.S. cities and counties. We tested the influence of morbidity (diabetes and obesity), city management, socioeconomic characteristics, planning and the built environment, metro status, and government finance. Community health-related services are more common in places that plan for and involve seniors in planning processes. Places with higher need and government capacity also show higher levels. Service levels in rural communities are not lower after controlling for other population characteristics. Morbidity measures (diabetes and obesity) do not explain differences in service availability. Policies promoting planning for aging and elder involvement in the planning process have the greatest i...
In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, N.Y. was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintai... more In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, N.Y. was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain services while reducing taxes and building government reserves, the county executive aggressively restructured government services using a mix of strategies — sometimes privatizing services, but at other times bringing previously privatized work back in house. The county also cooperated with other local governments
In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, NY was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain ... more In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, NY was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain services while reducing taxes and building government reserves, the county executive aggressively restructured government services using a mix of strategies sometimes privatizing ...
ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban area... more ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban areas contribute to the need for community organizing strategies that build coalitions to sustain rural landscapes. Drawing on the notion of social capital formation and based on analysis of Extension strategies in Orange and Dutchess Counties in New York state, we examine the process and outcomes of community organizing that integrate production and consumption interests in rural landscapes on the urban fringe. This analysis suggests that effective community organizing to sustain the rural landscape involves the intentional creation of "forums for interaction," where social capital can be generated and social, political, economic, and environmental interests can intersect. The development of "bridging ties" between single issue groups and networks is emphasized over attempts to form actual multi-issue coalitions. We demonstrate how identifying and building capacity at the local level forms the basis for effective regional policy change.
Planners are concerned with the health of their municipalities and regions, and regularly confron... more Planners are concerned with the health of their municipalities and regions, and regularly confront issues that affect families. However, the vast majority of planners do not consider children in comprehensive plans. In a society that is increasingly concerned with environmental ...
Traditionally the practice of Extension has been described as knowledge applied or knowledge exte... more Traditionally the practice of Extension has been described as knowledge applied or knowledge extended. More recently, the research community.
A research project identified the challenges and benefits of collaborative research between exten... more A research project identified the challenges and benefits of collaborative research between extension agents and researchers. Its methodology was a critical review of the collaborative research approach used in a case study examining the usefulness of social capital in promoting rural landscape sustainability in two counties in the Hudson River Valley, New York. There were several challenges to the collaboration that related directly to the dialogical process. The tension and productivity of the dialogue between research and extension partners were illustrated by these challenges: ensuring that collaboration would be useful to both parties so that both would participate; language; time; focus; and political costs. The project illustrated the value of research/extension collaborations. Although important challenges of perspective, communication, power, and divergent professional needs had to be overcome, the benefits of such collaborative research were dramatic. The project not only ...
Local service sectors including child care have received increasing interest from scholars and po... more Local service sectors including child care have received increasing interest from scholars and policy makers for their role in regional economic development. The IMPLAN input- output modeling system is the most widely used tool to measure the economic importance of the child care sector. Using state-level IMPLAN models for all 50 states and D.C. in the U.S., this paper explores
ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban area... more ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban areas contribute to the need for community organizing strategies that build coalitions to sustain rural landscapes. Drawing on the notion of social capital formation and based on analysis of Extension strategies in Orange and Dutchess Counties in New York state, we examine the process and outcomes of community organizing that integrate production and consumption interests in rural landscapes on the urban fringe. This analysis suggests that effective community organizing to sustain the rural landscape involves the intentional creation of "forums for interaction," where social capital can be generated and social, political, economic, and environmental interests can intersect. The development of "bridging ties" between single issue groups and networks is emphasized over attempts to form actual multi-issue coalitions. We demonstrate how identifying and building capacity at the local level forms the basis for effective regional policy change.
This study analyzes the links between planning, the built environment, and availability of health... more This study analyzes the links between planning, the built environment, and availability of health-related community services across U.S. urban and rural communities. We analyze the first national survey of health-related community services for seniors (2010 Maturing of America), covering 1,459 U.S. cities and counties. We tested the influence of morbidity (diabetes and obesity), city management, socioeconomic characteristics, planning and the built environment, metro status, and government finance. Community health-related services are more common in places that plan for and involve seniors in planning processes. Places with higher need and government capacity also show higher levels. Service levels in rural communities are not lower after controlling for other population characteristics. Morbidity measures (diabetes and obesity) do not explain differences in service availability. Policies promoting planning for aging and elder involvement in the planning process have the greatest i...
In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, N.Y. was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintai... more In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, N.Y. was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain services while reducing taxes and building government reserves, the county executive aggressively restructured government services using a mix of strategies — sometimes privatizing services, but at other times bringing previously privatized work back in house. The county also cooperated with other local governments
In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, NY was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain ... more In the early 1990s, Chautauqua County, NY was pulling out of an economic slump. Keen to maintain services while reducing taxes and building government reserves, the county executive aggressively restructured government services using a mix of strategies sometimes privatizing ...
ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban area... more ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban areas contribute to the need for community organizing strategies that build coalitions to sustain rural landscapes. Drawing on the notion of social capital formation and based on analysis of Extension strategies in Orange and Dutchess Counties in New York state, we examine the process and outcomes of community organizing that integrate production and consumption interests in rural landscapes on the urban fringe. This analysis suggests that effective community organizing to sustain the rural landscape involves the intentional creation of "forums for interaction," where social capital can be generated and social, political, economic, and environmental interests can intersect. The development of "bridging ties" between single issue groups and networks is emphasized over attempts to form actual multi-issue coalitions. We demonstrate how identifying and building capacity at the local level forms the basis for effective regional policy change.
Planners are concerned with the health of their municipalities and regions, and regularly confron... more Planners are concerned with the health of their municipalities and regions, and regularly confront issues that affect families. However, the vast majority of planners do not consider children in comprehensive plans. In a society that is increasingly concerned with environmental ...
Traditionally the practice of Extension has been described as knowledge applied or knowledge exte... more Traditionally the practice of Extension has been described as knowledge applied or knowledge extended. More recently, the research community.
A research project identified the challenges and benefits of collaborative research between exten... more A research project identified the challenges and benefits of collaborative research between extension agents and researchers. Its methodology was a critical review of the collaborative research approach used in a case study examining the usefulness of social capital in promoting rural landscape sustainability in two counties in the Hudson River Valley, New York. There were several challenges to the collaboration that related directly to the dialogical process. The tension and productivity of the dialogue between research and extension partners were illustrated by these challenges: ensuring that collaboration would be useful to both parties so that both would participate; language; time; focus; and political costs. The project illustrated the value of research/extension collaborations. Although important challenges of perspective, communication, power, and divergent professional needs had to be overcome, the benefits of such collaborative research were dramatic. The project not only ...
Local service sectors including child care have received increasing interest from scholars and po... more Local service sectors including child care have received increasing interest from scholars and policy makers for their role in regional economic development. The IMPLAN input- output modeling system is the most widely used tool to measure the economic importance of the child care sector. Using state-level IMPLAN models for all 50 states and D.C. in the U.S., this paper explores
ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban area... more ABSTRACT Growing social diversity in rural communities and increasing integration with urban areas contribute to the need for community organizing strategies that build coalitions to sustain rural landscapes. Drawing on the notion of social capital formation and based on analysis of Extension strategies in Orange and Dutchess Counties in New York state, we examine the process and outcomes of community organizing that integrate production and consumption interests in rural landscapes on the urban fringe. This analysis suggests that effective community organizing to sustain the rural landscape involves the intentional creation of "forums for interaction," where social capital can be generated and social, political, economic, and environmental interests can intersect. The development of "bridging ties" between single issue groups and networks is emphasized over attempts to form actual multi-issue coalitions. We demonstrate how identifying and building capacity at the local level forms the basis for effective regional policy change.
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