Welcome to the Publications Catalog. Here you'll find a range of newsletters, fact sheets and reports that focus on rural trends and issues, as well as on the work of the Rural Center.
Most are available for downloading in PDF format, a file format that can be read in Adobe Acrobat. For your convenience, a link to Acrobat is provided with each PDF file.
Please click on the following titles for a brief description and a link to the full document.
- Newsletters & Fact Sheets
- Rural Routes
- Rural Partners UPDATE
- The North Carolina Rural Economy
- Rural Partners UPDATE
- Reports About the Rural Center
- Rural Center Biennial Report, 2002-2004
- Rural Center Biennial Report, 1998-2000
- Rural Center Biennial Report, 1996-1998
- Rural Center Biennial Report, 1998-2000
- Water 2030 Reports
- Report: Impact of 1998 Clean Water Bonds
- Report: Trends in Water and Sewer Financing
- Report: Water, Sewer and Stormwater Capital Needs, 2005-2030
- Report: Water Supply and Demand, 2005-2030 (Report under revision)
- Report: Water 2030 Conclusions & Recommendations
- Report: Trends in Water and Sewer Financing
- Reports on Rural Trends & Issues
- Creating Entrepreneurial Communities: Profiles of high-growth entrepreneurs in rural North Carolina
- Fertile Ground: North Carolina Leaders Speak Out on the Future of Agriculture
- Creating Entrepreneurial Communities: Facts About High Growth Entrepreneurs in North Carolina
- Back on Track: 16 Promising Practices to Help Dislocated Workers, Businesses and Communities
- Creating Entrepreneurial Communities: Lessons from 10 rural demonstrations in North Carolina
- Gaining a Foothold: An Action Agenda to Aid North Carolina's Dislocated Workers
- The North Carolina Rural Profile 2004
- Health Insurance in North Carolina
Water Woes in Eastern North Carolina
Manufacturing Layoffs
Tracking Change in Rural North Carolina
Saying "Yes" to Small Business
Choices for a New Century
Clean Water: Our Livelihood, Our Life
Tobacco in North Carolina: What's in Store for our Economy, our Communities?
The Impact of the 1998 Tobacco Settlement on the North Carolina Economy
Rural Economic Index - Fertile Ground: North Carolina Leaders Speak Out on the Future of Agriculture
- Handbooks and Guides
- Creating Entrepreneurial Communities
Small Towns Fact Book
Small Towns Resource Directory
Claiming the Future: N.C. Rural Communities in the Digital Economy
Funding Resource Guide: A Quick Reference to Sources of Water & Sewer Funding in North Carolina, 2000
North Carolina Business Data Sourcebook
North Carolina Business Resource Directory
- Other Resources
- Video: Small Towns
- Video: Choices for a New Century
To purchase a publication or other resource, please print the Rural Center Publications Order Form and mail it along with a check to:
Rural Center
Communications Office
4021 Carya Drive
Raleigh, NC 27610
