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Community Capacity and Rural Housing in the Black Belt 

Kennealy, Patrick (2005-08-15)
The rural West Alabama Black Belt region faces many challenges in addressing low-income home construction and rehabilitation needs. In nearby metropolitan Tuscaloosa, non-governmental housing service providers draw on ...

Growth Machine Meets Conservation: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Watersheds 

Carter-North, John (2005-08-15)
Results from a stakeholder analysis of two central-Alabama watersheds—-the Black Warrior River watershed and Cahaba River watershed—-are presented in this thesis. Stakeholder opinions, perspectives, concerns, interests ...

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. ...

Information Exchange Among Environmental Groups in Alabama and Romania 

Robinson, Laura (2006-12-15)
According to resource mobilization theory, organizations need certain resources such as skills, money, and knowledge, to survive. For this research I consider information to be a key resource and use the resource mobilization ...

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 ...

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 ...

Timber Industry Consolidation and the Need for Scale Appropriate Harvesting Mechanisms in Alabama's Black Belt 

Brodbeck, Arnold (2005-08-15)
The consolidation and technological development of the forest industry in west Alabama’s Black Belt has lead to a growing disjunction between the needs of small forestland owners and the capabilities of logging operations ...