Toward a New Rural Typology: Mapping Resources, Opportunities, and Challenges
| Autor: | G. Jason Jolley, Christelle Khalaf, Gilbert Michaud |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Economic Development Quarterly. 36:276-293 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3543 0891-2424 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/08912424211069122 |
| Popis: | While the concept of rurality has been debated in academic and professional literature for decades, less research has been done on a practical typology that can guide localized economic development strategies. This paper adds to the growing body of literature in search of a more nuanced definition of rural by applying unsupervised machine learning (ML) to the abundance of existing county-level data in the United States. The authors illustrate how this method can lead to a new county typology, named after economic development strategies, that accounts for idiosyncrasies in resources, opportunities, and challenges. This research serves as a practical step toward tractable, heterogeneous classifications that can inform the work of federal, state, and local policy makers, economic development practitioners, and many others. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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