Contents and Highlights
Volume 74 Number 2
June 2009
Section 1 - "Health and the Environment"
Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren: Evidence From Pennsylvania
Cleaning Up Water? Or Building Rural Community? Community Watershed Organizations in Pennsylvania
Predicting Children's Asthma Hospitalizations: Rural and Urban Differences in Texas
Section 2 - "Rural Race and Ethnicity"
An Empirical Examination of Characteristics of Mexican Migrants to Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas of the United States
Strong Ties, Weak Ties, and Human Capital: Latino Immigrant Employment Outside the Enclave
Rethinking the Scope of Environmental Justice: Perceptions of Health Hazards in a Rural Native American Community Exposed to Carbon Black
Book Reviews
Reviewed by Tolee Hanke
Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society.
Reviewed by Raymond A. Jussaume Jr
Crisis and Opportunity: Sustainability in American Agriculture
Reviewed by David J. Peters
Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road
Reviewed by Andrea Kay Ryan
Niagara Falling: Globalization in a Small Town
Reviewed by Brian Gentry
The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy
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