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Edited by RPLC Members: Kelly Vodden, David J.A. Douglas, Sean Markey, Sarah Minnes, Bill Reimer Description Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels. Recent approaches to...
BOOK Halseth, G., Markey, S., & Ryser, L. (Eds.). (2018). Service Provision and Rural Sustainability.Infrastructure and Innovation. Routledge. Abstract Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient...
Now available from Vernonpress.com – NEW BOOK from Nathan Kerrigan (member of RPLC MIRRA Network), titled, “A Threatened Rural Idyll: Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English Countyside.” About the...
A new book edited by UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth describes the multi-faceted process of transition and change in resource-dependent rural and small town regions since the end of the Second World War....
The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has recently launched its Science Exposed contest, in collaboration with l’Acfas. The image contest challenges Canadians to combine creativity and science for a chance...
The Rural Sociological Society (RSS) Council has authorized the use of Endowment funds to support Master’s theses, Ph.D. dissertations, and Early Career Research awards to support research activities conducted during the 2016-2017 fiscal/academic year....
The RPLC’s very own Philomena de Lima has just released her latest book! de Lima, P. (2016) International Migration: the well-being of migrants. Dunedin Press: http://www.dunedinacademicpress.co.uk/ Migration is a widely debated issue. Events in Africa...
Book Title: Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field By Greg Halseth, Sean Markey, Laura Ryser and Don Manson For more information please visit the McGill-Queen’s University Press website For direct inquiries on ordering...
Book Release: Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability Edited by Mike Gismondi, Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie, Sean Markey, and Mark Roseland “Flowing from a unique and dynamic Practitioner–Academic partnership, Scaling Up...
UBC Press is pleased to announce the publication of Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region edited by Paul Bowles and Gary N. Wilson. This book explores how the people and communities of northern British...