Socioeconomic Development in the Grand Traverse Bay Area
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Authors
Ludlow, John D.
Braden, Patricia L.
Issue Date
1971-04
Type
Working Paper
Language
en_US
Subject
Grand Traverse Bay , Grand Traverse County , Upper Great Lakes , University of Michigan , Bureau of Business Research , April 1971 , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: U.S. Department of Commerce , Sea Grant Program , Grand Traverse Area Data Center , Sea Grant Delphi Exercises: Techniques for Utilizing Informed Judgements of a Multi-disciplinary Team of Researchers , Regional Economics and Water Resource Manangment , Population growth
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Abstract
The Northwest Economic Development District is a state planning
region made up of ten counties which approximate the Grand Traverse
Bay watershed area (see Figure 1). It is part of the Upper Great Lakes
region--an area of 119 counties in the northern parts of Michigan,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin --whic h has been identified as socially and
economically disadvantaged. The entire Upper Great Lakes region
has been the subject of intense study and specia l funding by the federal
government in an effort to reestablish social and economic development
at a rate com parable to the rest of the country. Since the Grand Traverse
Bay area is representative of many areas in the Great Lakes Basin
where economic development and the quality of life are closely tied
to water resources, this area was chosen to serve as a model for the
University of Michigan 's Sea Grant Program . Both the physical shape
of the region and the location of population centers are analogous to
the larger Lake Michigan area, so the ten counties provide an excellent
opportunity to develop methodologies which may be expanded later to
accommodate the entire Lake Michigan planning area.
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Partial OCR done. 60 pages total.
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Publisher
University of Michigan - Bureau of Business Administration