Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy

Shanna Ratner is the founder of Yellow Wood Associates, a woman-owned small business, based in St. Alban’s City, VT, USA, which specializes in community economic development in rural America.Deborah Markley is the co-founder of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, a national non-profit based in Lincoln, NE, USA, which works with communities across North America to create and implement entrepreneurship development strategies.

• Introduction: Rural wealth creation as a sustainable economic development strategy 1. Facilitating community wealth building: understanding the roles played and capacities needed by coordinating institutions 2. Socioeconomic development in an ultra-peripheral European region: the role of a food regulatory council as a social anchor 3. Community forests as a wealth creation strategy for rural communities 4. Community development and other extra-religious functions of Islamic schools: a contemporary perspective from the voices of stakeholders in two madrassas in Pakistan 5. International amenity migration: implications for integrated community development opportunities 6. A story about storytelling: enhancement of community participation through catalytic storytelling