Banning Deforestation in Norway
According to the World Resource Institute between 12 and 17 percent of annual, global greenhouse gas emissions are due to deforestation. Every minute an equivalent of 2 football fields is lost, and if we keep...
Tagged: Natural Resources
Yellowknife’s Toxic Legacy
During more than half a century of mining, 19,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust went up the stacks of smelters at the Giant and Con mines and settled on the once-pristine land and lakes...
Impacts of Site C and Fracking: Peace River, Canada
Toxic landslides into the Peace River continue, add to fears about impacts of Site C and fracking By Ben Parfitt Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into...
Blog: Newcomers Helping Rural Communities
Small town re-imagining is imperative to the fight it takes to keep rural communities alive through the ups and downs of a resource-based country. In this blog, read about how newcomers to these rural...
(Job Opportunity) James Hutton Institute
The James Hutton Institute in Scotland is advertising for three new posts: 1. an agricultural sociologist (or related discipline) 2. an agricultural/natural resource economist, and 3. research assistant. Information about each post is available...
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...
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...
NRD | NACDEP & ANREP Joint Conference
In 2016 the National Association of Community Development Professionals and the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals will be holding a joint conference for the first time. The event, entitled Building a Path to...
NRD Reading List | State of Rural Canada Report
This past September the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF) and the RPLC released the ‘State of Rural Canada’ report. This publication highlights current challenges and opportunities for rural development. Province-specific chapters focus on trends...
(Save the Date) ICRPS Fairbanks 2016
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