(Blog) Governance News Round Up – March 2016
Check out links to news stories related to rural governance from March 2016. If you have any reflections from one of the stories, or you have a story from your region to share, please leave...
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(Blog) Governance News Round-Up – February 2016
This is the first of a monthly posting gathering rural governance headlines from around the internet. If you have any reflections from one of the stories, or you have a story from your region...
(Book Release) Social Economy and Sustainability
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...
(News Release) Municipal Councillor Profile
Rural Ontario Institute unveils Municipal Councillor Profile Toronto, Ontario, February 24, 2016. Demographic realities and experiences of municipal leaders across rural Ontario have been unveiled through the Municipal Councillor Profile, a recent initiative of...
NRD | “Does your insurance cover that?”
This post is the first in a Natural Resource Development series undertaken to raise awareness of the importance of fire safety management and risk mitigation. This post has been submitted by Greg Bartlett, a...
(Publication) Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region
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...
(Report) Annual Demographic Estimates
Statistics Canada has released the Annual Demographic Estimates: Subprovincial Areas, 2015. Please find the full report here
NRD Reading List | The FPIC Report
The Boreal Leadership Council, founded in December 2003, is made up of leading conservation groups, First Nations, resource companies and financial institutions, all of which have a stake in the management and resource development...
(Update) Measuring Rural Community Vitality
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS In this our first update for 2016 we highlight our progress in these 3 project areas: · Advance Preview of the latest release of our Focus Fact Sheets; · Names of...
(Report) Networks as Interventions
Held in Edmonton, Alberta, over 70 Symposium participants engaged with the concept, design, practice and evaluation of networks in the context of Canadian and international public policy. They explored the dilemmas faced, and the...