Kai A. Schafft

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between rural communities, institutions, and environments, and propose a model to understand community in rural communities. But they do not discuss how to make a living in these communities.

TL;DR: The authors used data from a survey conducted in 309 school districts located within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region to study the ways local stakeholders perceive both risk and opportunity associated with gas extraction from Marcellous Shale.

TL;DR: The authors found that the highest achieving rural students are among those with the greatest community attachment, and that student perceptions of local economic conditions are far more influential in shaping postsecondary residential aspirations than the advice of educators, or the poverty level of the school.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to identify food desert areas in rural Pennsylvania and analyzed student body mass index (BMI) data along with census and school district-level data to determine the extent to which the percentage of a school district's population residing within a food desert is positively associated with increased incidence of child overweight among students within the district.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of internal and external champions in launching farm-to-school (FTS) programs and fostering civic engagement, and discussed the importance of frame bridging and frame extension as strategies for expanding the FTS movement and ensuring programs that correspond to the specific circumstances and possibilities of their social and geographic settings.