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Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt
(2008-09-09)
In a changing economy, rural communities must seek new economic strategies to remain viable. This is especially true in Alabama’s Black Belt, a region of persistent poverty, rural isolation, and racial segregation. This ...
Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt
(2008-09-09)
When a landowner dies without a will, his or her descendents inherit the property as a communal interest. Heir property, as it is often called, is a common form of landownership among African Americans in the rural South. ...
Property Value Impacts and Risks Perceptions: A Hedonic Analysis of Anniston, Alabama
(2008-09-09)
The city of Anniston, and to a larger extent Calhoun County, Alabama, has been affected by two major types of environmental disamenities: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the soils and waterways, and the ...
Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia
(2008-09-09)
Latinos are no longer concentrated in “traditional” cities and states, like Los Angeles, Florida, and Texas, and the rural Latino population is rapidly increasing in number throughout many regions of the nation, mostly in ...
Linking Rural Vendors with Urban Public Markets: Institutional Constraints and Possibilities in the Evolution of Urban Food Systems
(2008-09-09)
Public Markets are a new food retailing phenomena located in major urban centers throughout North America, presenting a means for more directly linking urban consumers and rural food producers. However, the new vision of ...
Three Essays on Real Estate, Environmental, and Urban Economics Using the Hedonic Price Model Technique
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation is organized into three different topics in the fields of real estate economics, environmental economics, and urban economics, all of them linked by a common econometric technique. The first topic determines ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality
(2008-09-09)
Studies in natural resources economics apply different models ranging from a simple linear regression models to much more complex models requiring advance skills in Geographic Information Systems, statistics and computer ...
Process, Regulation Requirements, and Financial Analysis for Transforming Rural Land to Recreational Sportfishing Waters
(2008-09-09)
This study illustrates the process and regulation requirements for transforming rural land in South Alabama into recreational waters. Moreover, the goal of this study is to evaluate the financial feasibility of addition ...
Three Essays in Applied Economics: (1) School Funding and Student Performance in Alabama, (2) News and Volatility of Food Prices, and (3) The Impact of NAFTA on Labor in the US
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on education, time series econometrics, and international economics. The first essay attempts to evaluate the impact of state funding on student performance in Alabama ...
Essays on Food and Agricultural Policy
(2008-09-09)
The study provides insight into the policy provisions that provide a safety net for low income families and agricultural producers in the United States. Private food assistance along with Food Stamp Program and Federal ...