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- Title
The Boom-Bust-Recovery Cycle: Dynamics of Change in Community Satisfaction and Social Integration in Delta, Utah.
- Authors
Brown, Ralph B.; Dorius, Shawn F.; Krannich, Richard S.
- Abstract
To better understand the long-term effects of rapid boom growth, we reexamine four subjective indicators of community satisfaction and social integration in Delta, Utah, that were originally analyzed by Brown, Geertsen, and Krannich in 1989. With 24 years of longitudinal data, we find that within approximately a decade of the boom period three of the four indicators returned to or exceeded pre-boom levels. We argue that we need to modify our theories and vocabulary regarding boomtowns to account for a ''boom-bust-recovery cycle" that better takes into consideration the dynamic nature of communities and their residents and how they subjectively adjust to shifts in objective conditions.
- Subjects
DELTA (Utah); UTAH; ECONOMIC development; SATISFACTION; COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL integration; BUSINESS cycles; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Rural Sociology, 2005, Vol 70, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0036-0112
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1526/0036011053294673