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Front Cover -- Managing the Mountains -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Farms and Forests: An Appalachian Portrait -- PART ONE: ORIGINS -- 1 A Harvest of Scarcity: Self- Sufficiency in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- 2 Customs in Common: Community and Agriculture in the Green Mountains -- 3 Academics and Partisans: Federal Land Use Planning, 1900- 1933 -- PART TWO PROJECTS -- 4 Designing the Shenandoah National Park -- 5 Cultivating the Vermont Forest -- 6 Reforming Submarginal Lands, 1933- 1938 -- Epilogue: Cellarholes and Wilderness: The Return of the Appalachian Forest -- Notes -- Index.

FrontMatter -- Reviewer Acknowledgment -- Contents -- 1 Overview -- 2 Revitalizing K-12 Science and Mathematics Education -- 3 Strengthening Undergraduate Education in Science and Engineering -- 4 Building Effective Partnerships -- 5 Fostering Regional Technology Development and Entrepreneurship -- 6 Final Observations -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Agenda Speakers and Planning Committee Members -- Appendix C: Workshop Participant Roster.

The Building of Cities -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT -- The Central Issues of Change -- Leadership -- Nature of a Project and Individual Response -- Environment of the Proposal -- Approaching the Issues -- Summary -- 2. CITY BUILDING -- Urbanization -- Urban Land Development: Social Values -- Urban Land Development: The Process -- Factors Influencing the Sequence of Decisions -- Interaction of Participants in the Process -- Summary -- 3. LYSANDER (RADISSON) -- Project Description -- The Urban Development Corporation -- Voices of Concern -- Community Advisory Committee -- Strategy of Dissent -- UDC's Strategy of Persuasion -- Summary -- 4. GANANDA -- Project Description -- Course of Events -- Local Government and Agency Approval -- Education: A Knotty Problem -- Management Problems -- Summary -- 5. RIVERTON -- Project Background -- Robert E. Simon and the Management Team -- Project Development -- Master Plan Development -- Town Review of the PUD Application -- Regional and Federal Project Review -- Avoiding Controversy: A Continuing Task -- Summary -- 6. URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND NEW COMMUNITIES -- Factors Affecting the Development Process -- Summary -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Macedon-Walworth New Community District Zoning Ordinance -- Index.

Intro -- FACTORS AFFECTING CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN SUB-SAHARANAFRICA -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- KEY ISSUES -- FINDINGS -- 1 Introduction -- THE CONTRACEPTIVE REVOLUTION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD -- CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- Historical Factors Leading to High Fertility -- Family Planning Initiatives -- Potential Effect of AIDS on Contraceptive Use -- Implications of the Rise in Contraceptive Use -- LEVELS OF SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION AFFECTING CONTRACEPTIVE USE -- National Level -- Regional Level -- Community, Kinship, and Household -- Individual Level -- ORGANIZATION OF REPORT -- 2 Levels and Trends in Contraceptive Use -- SOURCES OF DATA ON CONTRACEPTIVE USE -- DEFINITION OF CONTRACEPTIVE USE -- PREVALENCE OF CURRENT CONTRACEPTIVE USE IN SELECTED COUNTRIES -- Results from Demographic and Health Surveys Conducted from 1986 to 1990 -- Results of WFS, CPS, and Other Surveys, 1975-1990 -- Trends in Modern Contraceptive Prevalence -- Differentials in Use -- Reason for Use: Spacing Versus Limiting -- OTHER INDICATORS RELATED TO CONTRACEPTIVE PRACTICE -- Ever Use of a Modern Method -- Discontinuation -- Knowledge of a Modern Contraceptive Method -- Sources of Modern Contraceptive Methods -- Fertility Preferences -- RESULTS FROM MALE SURVEYS -- CONCLUSION -- 3 The Socioeconomic Context -- SOCIOECONOMIC DIFFERENTIALS OF FERTILITY -- National-Level Relationships -- Mortality -- Educational Attainment of Adults -- Schooling of Children: The Quantity-Quality Trade-Off -- The Combined Relation of Per Capita Income, Mortality, Education, and Fertility -- Household-Level Research -- EVIDENCE ON CHANGES IN CHILD MORTALITY -- Links to Fertility -- EVIDENCE ON CHANGES IN THE QUANTITY-QUALITY TRADE-OFF -- Opportunity Costs of Schooling -- Direct Costs -- Perceived Benefits of Schooling.