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Ad Hoc Rural Regionalism, Elisabeth M. Hamin, Daniel J. Marcucci
Ad Hoc Rural Regionalism, Elisabeth M. Hamin, Daniel J. Marcucci
Elisabeth M. Hamin
A new regionalism has been much documented and researched for metropolitan areas; this article documents that there is a new rural regionalism as well. In the United States, these groups appear most likely to emerge in areas that are challenged by outcomes characterizing globalization’s effects on the rural condition: namely, exurban or metropolitan sprawl and the resulting landscape fragmentation, often in combination with extreme pressure on the profitability of small farms or other resource uses. This research asks: what impetus is behind rural regional efforts; and what sort of processes of institutionalization do these groups utilize? The paper builds on …