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Population Change and Rural Society (The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis)
This book contains the latest research on social and economic trends occurring in rural America. -
Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century: Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society
The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. -
Rural Retirement Migration
This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States. -
Handbook of Environment and Society
The Handbook of Environment and Society focuses on the interactions between people, societies and economies, and the state of nature and the environment. -
Saving Forests, Protecting People? Environmental Conservation in Central America - Series: Globalization and the Environment
Tropical forest conservation is attracting widespread public interest and helping to shape the ways in which environmental scientists and other groups approach global environmental issues.
The Department of Development Sociology conducts theoretical and applied research, teaching, and outreach on the causes, dynamics, and consequences of social, cultural, political and economic change. Our location in a land grant university demands that our scholarship be responsible to both disciplinary concerns and to the social issues of particular interest to a public university. Our applied research and related outreach program is driven by a strong commitment to public sociology that is reflected in a diverse range of research and outreach activities serving communities in New York and around the world. In addition, the department’s mission is advanced by its established and visible outreach programs that contribute directly to the university’s land grant mission including the Community and Rural Development Institute and the Cornell Farmworker Program. Similarly, our international applied research and outreach efforts are advanced through the Polson Institute for Global Development and the Population and Development Program.