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For generations, the Labrador Inuit have relied on traditional knowledge to understand the intricacies of their landscape and seascape: Which ice is safe, where animals congregate, and so on. But climate change is, well,...
The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) released “A Profile of Wellbeing” five detailed reports of community wellbeing for the North, West, East, and Central regions, and for the city of Toronto. This is the second time the Ontario Trillium Foundation has...
The call for abstracts is open for the 9th International Conference on Climate Change, taking place at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK on 21-22 April 2017. The Conference features research addressing the following...
There is a new issue of the journal Social Studies out now, focused on rural sociology and sociological theory. The editors of the issue are Pavel Pospech and Laszlo J. Kulcsar. The content is...
The James Hutton Institute, one of the biggest research centres in the UK and the first of its type in Europe, has several PhD opportunities currently available. Each project will provide students with valuable...
By: Kay Robinson A chronic deprivation of power and resources occurs when a person is phoneless and disconnected from society. The current system requires you to phone, fax, email or google a website for...
The RPLC’s Research and Exchange Team Rural Policy Grants is issuing a call for application for Rural Policy Research Grants. The call will be open by the 15th of December, 2016; deadline for proposal submission...
Steven Chapman admits that conducting his own hemodialysis treatment hundreds of kilometres from the nearest hospital is “kind of a dangerous thing”, but he prefers that to the alternatives. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/home-dialysis-1.3873291
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The European Society for Rural Sociology is organizing the XXVII Congress, in Krakow, Poland from 24 to 27 July 2017. The Call for Abstracts is open until December 20, 2016. Abstracts should be submitted to the contact...