Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1983. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-251). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

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Abstract Rural Tourism was first found in Europe in the 19th century; Industrialization coupled with the market economy had accelerated urbanization process and brought negative effects, which created an atmosphere of intense competition, leading to urban residents long for the quiet rural life and beautiful countryside.  Rural tourism development is so striking, inseparable from its particular historical background. Since more than a century of industrialization and urbanization process accelerates and the economic and political status of rural undergone great changes. In particular, in the last 50 years, because of technological advances, production continues to improve, but agricultural labor demand declined at the same time.  The relocation of population in many rural areas, leads to depression of rural services and rural communities in decline. With the move of young people, rural aging has become increasingly prominent. Development issues in rural areas attracted the attention of Western governments of developed countries, while the development of tourism and rural economic structure to change an important way. Ping Tung industry is rich in resources, and in recent years, urbanization and recreational needs of pressure, Industry and Tourism of vigorous growth. This study explored cases around the world for the rural tourism development and strategy, through France, England, UK, Germany and other rural tourism development strategies and models of case analysis, induction suitable for a rural tourism development in Ping Tung County, The results displays that the county¡¦s rural tourism development is in line with modern green tourism, environmental protection and tourism trends in the world of national tourism policy for the current major driving directions. In the future, Ping Tung County, needs to establish the development of village tourism brand, the government initiates to promote counseling, and with the whole city and the county of Ping Tung County and Tourism marketing strategy to achieve sustainable tourism development in Ping Tung County, Ping Tung County can look forward to the development of rural tourism by attracting foreign experience to come to Taiwan, and also increases the visibility of ping Tung county in the world.

This study is to explore literature through domestic, building mental health assessment indicators, the use of Delphi method by the domestic psychology, counseling, education, counseling, mental health-related scholars and practitioners of view, construction of national mental health indicators, and view the people the importance of mental health indicators distribution. The results showed that the national mental health assessment indicators include the "interpersonal", " resistance to stress", and "work ability", "disease", "emotional", "conduct", "cognitive," "Sleep," "religion" , "sex" in ten dimensions, a total of 25 questions the subject. Indicators of the importance of distribution to compression of the dimension of "I can quickly adjust and adapt to the pressure felt in life," experts agreed that the importance of access to the highest, indicating the pressure adjustment and adaptation is affecting mental health of the most important factor. The religious dimension in this study, the three indicators are all experts in assessment is the importance of low, appear in this dimension for the mental health impact far as other dimensions.

¡§Science¡¨, ¡§Technology¡¨ and ¡§Innovation¡¨ are more important than the conventional productive elements in the era of knowledge economy. Lots of countries emphasized to advance the spread of knowledge in the innovation systems. Department of Industrial Technology also thought the relationships between governments, enterprises, research institutions and universities are important. Furthermore, the regional innovation system is the base of the national innovation system, but there were few research papers about regional innovation system. Therefore, we thought the regional innovation system is very important for regional developing and even the country. We collected the critical factors of the regional innovation system by literature review and the analysis of cases. And then, we adopt Delphi method to collect the professional¡¦s advices and check the critical factors of the regional innovation system. In concluding, we found out the factors below: 1.Governments should choose ¡§R&D¡¨ to be the orientation of the region, and supply the infrastructures to construct the good environment. It should establish relative policies and laws, and hold some exhibitions and conferences to promote the cooperation between the components. Central government and local governments should build good channel to communicate each other. 2.The research institutions, universities, and enterprises should have their own authorities and lead in the experts around the world. And they should spread the talents, technologies, and achievements between them. Furthermore, they should communicate with other international institutes. Having enough funds of R&D is also important for the research institutions, universities, and enterprises. 3.Finally, some results that we couldn¡¦t explain here is like intellectual property rights. Protecting intellectual property rights would increase invention and innovation, but sharing the knowledge and technology are also important for an innovation system. Consequently, the follow-up researchers could continue to research this subject.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 263 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-211).

Thesis (Ph. D.) in Forestry--University of Maine, 2003. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-211).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 377 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-162).