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The Attitudes of Rural Residents Toward the Expansion of Natural Resource Based Economic Activities: A Comparison Between Recent In-migrants and Long-time Residents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Nancy Stout-Wiegand ,
Steven D. Bulman  and
Dennis K. Smith
Nancy Stout-Wiegand
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics Division of Resource Management West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506
Steven D. Bulman
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics Division of Resource Management West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506
Dennis K. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics Division of Resource Management West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506
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Abstract

Rural residents, particularly recent in-migrants, are often characterized by preferences for a tranquil rural lifestyle based on the attributes of an open countryside. A survey of residents of an isolated rural county in West Virginia was conducted to explore the proposition that recent rural in-migrants are more opposed to the growth of natural resource based activities which are detrimental to the rural countryside than are long-term residents of the County. The hypothesis was not supported, as both recent in-migrants and long-time residents strongly favored economic development of the County's natural resources over preservation of the natural countryside.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , April 1984 , pp. 40 - 45
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Published with the approval of the Director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station as Scientific Article # 1840. This research was supported with funds appropriated under the Hatch Act.

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