People, Places and Landscapes Social Change in High Amenity Rural Areas /

• Main Authors: Krannich, Richard S. (Author), Luloff, A. E. (Author), Field, Donald R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Landscape Series, 14
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape ecology.; Environmental management.; Social sciences.; Human geography.; Life Sciences.; Landscape Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Management.; Human Geography.; Social Sciences, general.

This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region’s natural amenities and its socioeconomic  evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America’s Intermountain West region, which lies between the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains t...