Understanding community economic growth and decline: strategies for sustainable development

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Author -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I An Examination of Existing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- 1 Competing Theories of Community Economic Growth and Decline -- 2 A Brief History of Economic Growth and Decline -- 3 Growth versus Development -- 4 In Search of a New Understanding -- Part II Why Local Economies Must Grow: Causes of Increasing Demand -- 5 Economic Stasis: "We Don't Want to Grow -- We Want to Stand Still" -- 6 Global Forces on Local Economies -- 7 National and State Forces that Impact Local Economies -- 8 Over-Dependence on a Single Company or a Single Industry: Case Studies -- Part III The Impacts of Insufficient Local Economic Growth -- 9 Impacts on the Secondary and Tertiary Economies -- 10 Reaction Times and Waiting Until it is Too Late -- 11 Community and Citizen Responses -- Part IV Enhancing the Local "Product" -- 12 Preparing and Selling the Product -- 13 Physical Requisites for Economic Development -- 14 Matching Communities to Optimal Business Development: The "Right Kinds" of Jobs -- 15 Institutional Growth and Economic Development -- 16 Building Amenities to Drive Growth -- 17 Rural Communities and Small Town Economic Development -- Part V The Process: Initiating and Sustaining Local Economic Growth -- 18 Vision, Planning, and Selling the Plan -- 19 The Timing of the Process -- 20 Team-Building, Budgeting, and Professionalism -- 21 Creating Strategic Alliances for Growth -- 22 Image, Awareness, and Selling Communities to Employers -- 23 Managing Internal Expectations -- 24 Managing Inter-Jurisdictional Relationships -- 25 Business Incubation and Entrepreneurialism as an Economic Growth Generator and State Development Programs