"Three Iron Mining Towns" is an analysis of the interdependence of human character and social life connected with natural resource extraction. The 146 page book traces mining settlements through their formation, early years and maturity as resource dependent communities. Along the way we learn about the influence of culture upon the reformation of nature, the transformations of social institutions, the people who reside in these towns, politics and economy, and the con-tinuous ebb and flow of social life and community well-being associated with the mining of iron ore. "Three Iron Mining Towns" is one of the first sociological treatises which integrates the social with the bio-physical environment, an excellent example of the way in which rural sociologists studied natural resources and the environment.

Three Iron Mining Towns: A Study in Cultural Change

Politics & Social Sciences

Landis, Paul H.

Sociology

Dog-Eared Publications (Subsidiary:Social Ecology Press)

"Man, Mind, and Land" is the first major comprehensive treatise of society, culture and the transformation of natural resources. "Man, Mind and Land" represents a classic foundation text for students of natural resource social science. The interpretation of the social with the biophysical world to understand human adaptation to the natural resource environment begins here. Firey clearly outlines the interplay of society and culture, first to shaping the land and second how sociey rsponds to the limits of the natural world around us.

Man, Mind and Land

Firey, Walter

The Community in Rural America

Ken Wilkinson’s classic study of cummunity in rural America is first a synthesis of the dominant conceptual approaches to the study of community including a comprehensive review of the literature on each conceptual approach. Second, the book represents a thorough discussion of the critical varaibles or measures in the study of community in contempory rural America.

Wilkinson, Ken

Social Sciences

Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information. Fliegel then notes how the classical model changed to accommodate the particular socio-econimic condition when the model was applied to developing countries after 1945. He concludes by commenting on the revival of interest in diffusion research, the further developnent and refinement of the classical model, and the modern emphasis on conservation-oriented innovations rather than on innovations that enhance production.

Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology

Fliegel, Frederick C.

This book provides the conceptual and theoretical development of SIA by one of the founders and his colleagues of this applied social science field. The 24 chapters are organized around the following topics: • Developing the Concept of Social 
Impact Assessment • The Process and Methods of Social 
Impact Assessment • Case Studies in Social Impact Assessment • Social Impact Assessment and the
Public Involvement Process • Social Impact Assessment in an 
International Context

The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment

Burdge, Rabel J.