Browsing by Author "Bailey, L. Conner, Jr."

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Evaluating Access Barriers To Primary Health Care Services For Hispanic Residents in Toombs County, Georgia

Vitale, Michele (2007-05-15)

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 ...

Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt

Dyer, Janice (2007-05-15)

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. ...

Linking Rural Vendors with Urban Public Markets: Institutional Constraints and Possibilities in the Evolution of Urban Food Systems

Rigdon, Leah (2007-05-15)

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 ...

Pinning Down the Change: A Community-Level Study of Timberland Ownership Change

Randle, Anne (2014-05-13)

Over the last twenty years, the forest products industry has sold much of its land base throughout the U.S. The majority of that land is being transferred from corporations in what was a traditional vertically-integrated ...

Property Value Impacts and Risks Perceptions: A Hedonic Analysis of Anniston, Alabama

de Parisot, Christophe (2007-05-15)

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 ...

The Role of Women in Post-Harvest Handling of Peanuts: The Case of Reducing Aflatoxin Along the Supply Chain in Ghana

Adu-Gyamfi, Akua (2013-08-20)

Peanuts are an important food and cash crop for rural farmers in Ghana. However, contamination of peanuts by aflatoxins, which have been linked to food poisoning and health related problems such as liver cancer and ...

Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Racial Divide: Community Development Through Art in Alabama's Black Belt

Blejwas, Emily (2007-05-15)

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 ...

Surviving the Spill: Stakeholder Perceptions of the Commercial Seafood Supply Chain in Alabama and Mississippi After the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Christensen, Stefanie (2013-09-12)

Stakeholders in the commercial seafood industry in Alabama and Mississippi have experienced a series of environmental and man-made shocks in the last decade. Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, the recession of 2008, and the ...

Three Essays on the Pine Straw Industry in a Georgia Community

Casanova, Vanessa (2007-12-15)

This dissertation examines the pine straw industry and its interaction with labor, local communities and land in a community in Georgia. As a relatively new industry within the forest products sector, the pine straw ...