Browsing Research by Subject "social economy"
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Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007)This research report documents a case study of the recent history of successful innovation and development in the co-operative sector in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been unparalleled in other parts of ... -
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2007)This research paper was presented to the 2007 Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. It discusses a case study of the recent history of successful innovation and development in the co-operative sector ... -
Sustainability, Heritage Conservation and Sheltering the Social Economy
(2009-04-07)Many social economy organizations either operate out of, or own and manage, heritage buildings in urban and rural places. These heritage buildings provide a variety of functions from the provision of affordable housing ... -
Sustainability, the Social Economy, and the Eco-Social Crisis: Traveling Concepts and Bridging Fields
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on the results of a BALTA research project (B2) examining the potential synergy between the sustainability and ... -
Sustainability, the Social Economy, and the Eco-social Crisis: Traveling Concepts and Bridging Fields
(2009-01-05)Current global issues such as climate change and peak oil have brought attention to the severity and complexity of our eco-social crisis and called for local action and community-based solutions. There is a need for middle ... -
Sustainable Infrastructure for the Social Economy: Cluster-Based Social Enterprise Models
(2008-11-13)This presentation was given at the 2008 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). IT provided an introduction to new research being undertaken as BALTA research project D4. Many non-profits ... -
Sustainable Infrastructure for the Social Economy: Cluster-based Social Enterprise Models
(2009-04-06)The social economy is a mosaic of organizations, from credit unions and co-operatives to social enterprises and non-profit organizations. Many non-profit organizations and social enterprises work on shoestring budgets and ... -
Sustainable Infrastructure for the Social Economy: Cluster-based Social Enterprise Models
(2009-04-06)The social economy is a mosaic of organizations, from credit unions and co-operatives to social enterprises and non-profit organizations. Many non-profit organizations and social enterprises work on shoestring budgets and ... -
Tracking Progress - Some Issues and Tools
(2007-08-21)Tracking progress is easy to say and hard to do. It becomes even harder in an era when tracking progress and accountability have often been morphed into rigid patterns of bean counting. People working in the trenches are ... -
Training Businesses in Quebec
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) and l'Alliance de recherche universités-communautés en économie sociale (ARUC-ÉS), 2010)This report examines the experience of what are referred to in Quebec as les entreprises d’insertion. While the term training businesses is used in English, this merely describes the focus on the activity performed in ... -
Tree Farm…or Community Forest? Revelstoke CFC cannot hope to realise sustainable practices until provincial forest legislation changes
(Making Waves, 1996)While generally supportive of the progress made by the community-owned forest corporation in Revelstoke, according to these authors, it is not a real community forest. They claim it cannot be under provincial forest ... -
Visioning Sunnyhill: Executive Report
(2010-07-11)This report and an accompanying presentation were developed as part of BALTA research project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach. The project involved a team of Environmental Design students ... -
Visioning Sunnyhill: Presentation
(2010-07-11)This presentation and an accompanying report were developed as part of BALTA research project A7 - Co-op Housing Futures: A Spatial Design Research Approach. The project involved a team of Environmental Design students at ... -
West Chilcotin Forest Products: A joint venture defies the odds in B.C.'s troubled forest industry.
(Making Waves, 2002)Since 1995, the inhabitants of Nimpo and Anahim lakes in the Chilcotin region of west-central British Columbia have found a way to run a logging and manufacturing business that respects First Nations traditional territory, ... -
Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(Alberta Community & Co-operative Association (ACCA), 2009)This is a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a very successful new generation co-operative located in Westlock, Alberta. In 2002, when the community found out that their grain terminal was going to be sold, they ... -
Westlock Grain Terminals : A Case Study
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on a case study of Westlock Grain Terminals, a new generation co-operative in Alberta, Canada. -
What is the social economy? Contested ground or alternative lenses?
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2010-09-30)This power point presentation explores the emergence of the social economy as a field of study and examines several approaches to defining and conceptualizing the social economy. It suggests that each approach has utility ... -
What Value Social Enterprise? Understanding the success of Atira Property Management
(Making Waves, 2005)A charity that manages transition houses in B.C.'s lower mainland is in the curious position of both making and breaking the case for social enterprise. Atira Women's Resource Society has found itself well-positioned to ... -
Works In Progress: Keeping The Measurement Of A Community's Progress Community-Centred
(Making Waves, 2003)Indicators are complicated and sensitive instruments, no question. So whenever they get applied to community development, there is a trade-off between technical standards and local engagement. Often (too often) that trade-off ...