Poverty, Sustainability, and the Culture of Despair
Can Sustainable Development Strategies Support Poverty Alleviation in America's Most Environmentally Challenged Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9751993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Glasmeier (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author), Amy K Glasmeier (geography department at Pennsylvania State University), Tracey L Farrigan, Tracey Farrigan (0000-0002-3010-1385) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 590 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-149 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716203257072 |
| OpenAlex | W1982387778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 8 |
Appalachia is considered one of the nation's poorest areas. Many communities live in isolation. The material use of the natural landscape has affected citizens' views of the viability of and potential for sustainable resource practices. In many resource dependent communities, land is externally owned and controlled. Despite living and working in areas with enormous natural resource wealth, residents have only limited access to these resources. Recognizing the inability of conventional practice to resolve many of the development problems confronting communities in distress, a series of new policy initiatives are focusing on building sustainable community capacity from the ground up. Can notions of sustainability be used as a means of redistributing power and access to natural resources, or does the peculiar fate of a region, tied to massive natural resource extraction, eliminate such potential
Appalachia · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Poverty · Resource (disambiguation · Resource depletion · Sustainability · Sustainable community · Sustainable development · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Risk Perception and Management
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |