rural life
type: Concept
narrower: watersheds

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: watersheds

watersheds
type: Concept
definition: People involved with natural resource and environmental planning in the United States have sometimes pointed to the desirability of defining community in terms of hydrological, or watershed, boundaries. A community so defined brings together many disparate preexisting communities whose members often have not thought of themselves as comprising a larger community, but whose shared interest in preserving the quality of their environment and their water is actually a potentially powerful unifying force. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Watersheds]
broader: rural life