Rural Communities: Legacy + Change

Communities in rural America are a complex mixture of peoples and cultures, ranging from miners who have been laid off in West Virginia, to Laotian immigrants relocating in Kansas to work at a beef processing plant, to entrepreneurs drawing up plans for a world-class ski resort in California's Sierra Nevada. "Rural Communities: Legacy and Change" uses its unique Community Capitals framework to examine how America s diverse rural communities use their various capitalsnatural, cultural, human, social, political, financial, and builtto address the modern challenges that face them.