Fulkerson, Gregory M. (2022). Community in Urban-Rural Systems, Rowman & Littlefield.

Community in Urban-Rural Systems is Gregory M. Fulkerson's latest volume in the series Urban-Rural Dynamics, for which he serves as editor, and builds on arguments he has previously made in the series.As do previous volumes, this 2022 study frames his analysis of the relationship between urban and rural economies and populations historically and theoretically.In Fulkerson's analysis, this relationship has three dimensions: the environmental demographic, the political-economic, and the sociocultural.Although most of Fulkerson's data and examples refer to the United States, he points out that the principles have global applications.Although not explicitly, this study also suggests the negative political consequences of misunderstanding the urban-rural divide, and an absence of attention to urban-rural systems: cultural, economic, and political marginalization of rural communities may contribute to political alienation and extreme political expression.