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Constraints on the Community Decision Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Robert L. Christensen  and
C. T. K. Ching
Robert L. Christensen
Affiliation:
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
C. T. K. Ching
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Nevada, Reno
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Most discussions of community planning and development have described it as a result (e.g., an increased level of economic activity which leads to a higher social welfare function and standard of living) or as a process (the way decisions should be made to achieve the result). The literature is, therefore, somewhat confusing since subsumed under the overall subject matter heading are such diverse topics as the economic feasibility of a manufacturing plant or social psychology applied to the power structure of the community recreation committee.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1977 , pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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This publication is a contribution of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, Journal Series No. 359.

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