Abstract
Recent studies assert that rural residents support the protection of environmental quality of life features over environmentally insensitive economic development strategies. Rural development policy, however, is not typically created by common rural citizens. Instead, officials from state government agencies, non-profit corporations, national associations, and private business firms create strategies, often hand-in-hand with local interest groups and elites. Research into the attitudes of development officials could play an important role in understanding rural environmental and economic development policy. This study uses a national sample of 305 rural development administrators to define a group of green rural development officials (GRDOs) based on age, organization of employment, and educational background. The findings demonstrate that GRDOs possess strong environmental attitudes on all three areas tested: rural environmental problems, environmental rural policy options, and environmental policy consi...
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