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| Financial capital is an important component of rural community development and a key aspect of community resilience. Yet residents often transfer their wealth into investment vehicles such as GICs and bonds that are external to their community. This exodus of financial capital is often in contrast to a deep commitment to the local community in which these residents lived and worked for the majority of their lives. With a focus on the Town of Olds, Alberta, this project seeks to understand the possibilities for local financial capital retention for community development. We compare several approaches to capital retention that include the transition towns movement, community currency and community bonds; we explore perspectives from municipal, provincial,... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Rural finance; Community investment; Impact assessment; Social research methods; Rural development; Community resilience; Community/Rural/Urban Development; R51; R11; Q38. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119055 |
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| Miles, Heiko; Schwager, Steven J.; Lenz, John E.. |
| Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action models behavior as based on beliefs and evaluations on a small set of salient attributes. Two methods of reducing large sets of potentially salient attributes into a smaller set of salient attributes are proposed. The methods are based on expectancy valuation analysis and logistic regression analysis. When applied to consumer beliefs and evaluations on 59 attributes over three milk types (whole, low-fat, and skim milk), both methods identify reduced sets of attributes. The reduced attribute sets are then used to model whether or not respondents drink a particular milk type. Results indicate that the reduced models are statistically significant in explaining choice of m"ilk type although there is some loss of information... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Milk; Preferences; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123005 |
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