Economic Development Digestibles

Water Conservation
Black and Fisher’s third edition of Conservation of Water and Related Land Resources simplifies the history of watershed management and water law, featuring the role of national, regional, state and local organizations in water conservation, policy and planning.

Contact: CRC Press, LLC, (800) 272-7737, www.crcpress.com

Price: $89.95

Internet for Local Government
The Local Government Guide to the Internet: Online Resources for Communities is a guidebook to using Internet resources for community development problem-solving.

Contact: TVA Rural Studies, University of Kentucky, (888) 885-9800, www.rural.org/sales.html

Price: $30.95; Free online at www.rural.org/lgg/lggurls.html

Rural Wastewater Management
The Choices for Communities: Wastewater Management Options for Rural Areas, by Mike Hoover at North Carolina State University, offers a history of onsite systems and discusses alternatives to centralized sewers.

Contact: National Small Flows Clearinghouse, (800) 624-8301, www.nsfc.wvu.edu, Item #WWBLMG09

Price: $.50 plus shipping

Agroecosystems
Original research edited by Cornelia Flora, Ph.D. is the basis of Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities. Using a series of case studies, Dr. Flora examines the effects of mixing agricultural and forestry systems with ecosystems to produce agroecosystems.

Contact: CRC Press, LLC, (800) 272-7737, www.crcpress.com

Price: $69.95

Environmental Justice
Different degrees of environmental burden felt by different racial, ethnic and income groups are now documented and available for every community in the US. The information is available free on Environmental Defense’s Scorecard website (www.Scorecard.org), which lets users type in their zip codes to get local facts.

Economic Research Service
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) has publications related to natural resources: Rural Development Perspectives, Vol. 14, no. 2, which focuses on the Rural West; David McGranahan’s report “Natural Amenities Drive Rural Population Change,” and their latest issue of Rural America, Vol. 15, no. 4, which focuses on the Rural South.

Contact: USDA ERS, (202) 694-5110, www.ers.usda.gov

Transportation and Brownfields
Redeveloping Brownfields with Federal Transportation Funds, a report by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, contains a transportation funding sources table and application checklists. Case studies with contact sources detail successful programs and summarize the impact of brownfields redevelopment on transportation.

Contact: Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, (202) 457-0710, www.ampo.org

Price: Free

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