Author: Anders Van Sandt

Redi Reports

Multidimensional Measures of Community Well-Being: Climate Resilience as a Case Study

  • June 2026
Community development is moving beyond growth-based indicators toward multidimensional measures of well-being, but the proliferation of indices raises new questions about which outcomes align with community values. Applied to climate resilience, this framing reveals that prosperity and climate resilience indicators are only weakly related — and vary across space.…
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Relationships Between Agritourism Operations and Place-Based Factors

  • February 2018
Agritourism has been recognized as an entrepreneurial activity that has the potential to diversify agricultural businesses and stimulate rural development of surrounding communities From 2007-2012, the number of farms and ranches with agritourism in the S. grew 42%, and grew 27% in Colorado Most Colorado agritourism operations and counties with high agritourism revenues are located near natural capital and/or assets, such as those in the Rocky Mountain region, or near urban centers with a population drawn to natural amenities such as the Front Range Agritourism is any recreational or educational activity on a working farm or ranch for which consumers pay.…
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