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Handbook of Rural Development is a comprehensive book for sociology students studying a course in rural sociology. The book puts forth the idea that urbanization is not a positive approach and shows how rural places and people play a vital role in society and civilization in general. The author stresses on how global trends, state policies, and grassroots movements affect contemporary rural areas in both first world and third world countries. The book also shows how policies of rural development have always focused on increasing agricultural productivity but how a much broader approach is needed to integrate rural producers into the global economy. In addition, the book shows how rural development has been changing in different areas of the world, including Africa, China, and Latin America. It is an indispensable reference for all sociology students. About Gary Paul Green Gary Green is the Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Green completed his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri and currently works on the fields of Communities and Urban Sociology and Economic Sociology. He has also authored: Mobilizing Communities: Asset Building as a Community Development Strategy and Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice & Service-Learning.