Rural Realities
Rural Realities is an information/policy series that seeks to showcase innovative applied research being conducted by RSS members and other rural social scientists that give attention to critical and timely rural issues. It is designed to:
- Build on high quality social sciences-based studies
- Communicate insights in a clear and concise manner on rural people and places
- Provide policy strategies/options for consideration by policy actors and policy analysts
- Contribute valuable information to the policy community on emerging issues/challenges in rural areas of the U.S. and the world
Rural Realities is a peer-reviewed, web-based series that will begin publishing 4 times a year beginning in 2006. Each issue will be devoted to a single topic.
Articles submitted by an author should be 6-8 double spaced pages in length, should effectively incorporate tables, graphs, and/or charts that are clear and understandable to non-academic audiences, and be written in a style that effectively communicates to the policy community.
An important note to potential authors is that the series editor, coupled with the series' communication specialist, are available to work hand in hand with the authors in the manuscript development, preparation, review, and revision processes.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal that addresses the priority topics noted above, or would like to propose another topic that you view as potentially relevant to this series, please submit a one-page abstract electronically to the Rural Realities Editor:
Bo Beaulieu, Editor
Rural Realities
Email: ljb@srdc.msstate.edu
Voice: 662-325-3207
Fax: 662-325-8915
Tackling the Rising Cost of Electricity:
Options for Rural America
Rural Realities Volume 3 Issue 1
Concentrated Rural Poverty
and the Geography
of Exclusion
Farming in the Urban Shadow:
Supporting Agriculture at the Rural-Urban Interface
Rural Realities Volume 2 Issue 4
Self-Employment in Rural America:
The New Economic Reality
Rural Realities Volume 2 Issue 3
In Our Own Backyard:
Methamphetamine Manufacturing,
Trafficking and Abuse in Rural America
Rural Realities Volume 2 Issue 2
Getting Connected:
Broadband Services a Key to a Vibrant Rural America
Rural Realities Volume 2 Issue 1
Starved for Access:
Life in Rural America's Food Deserts
Rural Realities Volume 1 Issue 4
Community Emergency Response Teams:
From Disaster Responders to Community Builders
Rural Realities Volume 1 Issue 3
Rural People, Rural Places:
The Hidden Costs of Hurricane Katrina
Rural Realities Volume 1 Issue 2
At the Razor's Edge:
Building Hope for America's Rural Poor
Rural Realities Volume 1 Issue 1
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Tackling the Rising
Cost of Electricity:
Options for Rural America
Rising and volatile energy prices are straining household budgets and particularly those of rural residents who often pay a higher percentage of household income for basic goods such as energy, including electricity and gasoline.
Policy and community options might include...
prior issues of Rural Realities
