Southern Illinois Regional Assessment Project (SIRAP)
Primary objectives:
- Assess a 20-county region in southern Illinois, including stakeholder perspectives of emerging threats and opportunities
- Assess the role of Dixon Springs Agricultural Center from the perspective of regional stakeholders
SIRAP fast facts:
- Project began May 2006.
- Research conducted by Dr. Courtney Flint and Dr. Stephen Gasteyer, rural sociologists in the College of ACES. Flint and Gasteyer and their team of student researcher assistants produced a set of draft reports and fact sheets covering multiple dimensions of the 20-county region.
- Funded by the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the State of Illinois.
The final version of the SIRAP Report is available below as PDF files. All materials copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.
