Rural System's
The Rural System Dream
Class Note - Prof. Chris Neck, February 27, 2009 -
by Robert H. Giles, Jr., Ph.D., Professor emeritus,
formerly of the College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech
What I expect you to derive from the experience
- a lead to a job or business for you
- orientation to a new economic and environmental construct for you
- new awareness for you as a citizen of desirable environmental action
- alternative approaches to a very large and complex global problem
- insight into leadership needs for you.
There are opportunities for you within the Rural System concept (www.RuralSystem.com) for the future. Whether taken ... or not ? Your decision.
Carry away:
- There's a rural crisis. There is a refugee crisis. Rural System is a solution. Read about it at the link, a free book, at www.RuralSystem.com.
- Private land emphasis; absentee land owners
- The Working Platform - land use as a decision, not predetermined
- Modern farming - using GIS and GPS and the multi-million dollar data base now available and computer optimization
- The awful limits - water, energy, fertilizer, old and new risks
- The Clusters - combined farm outputs for reasonable market sizes
- The Land force - a trained, equipped regional work force
- Many diverse enterprises managed by a central system providing services
- Comprehensive system; general systems theory with revisions.
- Diversity of enterprises within the sectors of the system
- A single clear objective: long term bounded present-discounted net financial gains
- Sectors: Forestry Topics, Wildlife / Nature, Agriculture Topics, Sports and Recreation, Products and Communication.
The book has many stories (chapters) about the enterprise as it might exist.
Highlighted : The Owls, RuraLives, Avi-Golf , a fishery, Ranging . Other enterprises are described (see via a list).
Perhaps you will share ideas with me about some of the topic(s) above .
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