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“Social Economizing” Sustainability: A cross-project analysis & synthesis of research findings
(2010-07-15)
This is the project proposal for BALTA Project B8, which involves the establishment of a one year BALTA supported post-doctoral researcher position. The focus of the position will be to facilitate analysis and synthesis ...
Concretizing Asian Canadian Theatre
(2010-07-14)
Founded in Edmonton in 1989 as a community-action collective company, Concrete Theatre has prioritized in its mandate a focus on cultural diversity. For the past twenty years, it has created workshops for schools and ...
Models for Strategy Choice in Random or Potentially Deceptive Environments
(2010-07-14)
Two simulation models are presented illustrative of decision and behavioural choice issues for complex adaptive systems involving cognitive agents. The first illustrates the value of managed instability for complex systems. ...
The Social Economy in Alberta and BC: Preliminary Patterns
(2010-04)
The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ...
BC-Alberta Social Economy Portraiture Survey 2008-2010: Some Preliminary Patterns
(2010-04-27)
The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ...
Seikatsu Coop de consommateurs: Un contribution aux durabilitédu système agricole
(2010-04-09)
This presentation was given at a two-day workshop of the Congrès du mouvement coopératif francophone de l’Alberta in April, 2010. It presents research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) ...
Bridging the Social Economy and Sustainability Through Food: Exploring the potential for community transformation
(2010-06-04)
This presentation was part of a panel session on "Community Organizing and Community Economic Development" at the 2010 annual conference of the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER). Drawing on ...
Can it be both? Local Food Initiatives for Social and Environmental Change in Communities
(2010-06-18)
This presentation was part of a panel session on "Planning for Growth or Planning for Equity: Potential and Challenges of Sustainable Community Development" at the Planners Network conference on Towards a Just Metropolis: ...
The Baby Boomers Become the Workers, 1960-1980
(2010-09-23)
The focus would be on the young labour force of this period, changing social values, and the impact on working-class lives and on trade unionism. The switch from company unionism in the provincial civil service to AUPE, ...
Can it be both? Local Food Initiatives for Social and Environmental Change in Communities
(2010-09-25)
This case study report is part of a research program of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) looking at local food, sustainability and the social economy. It examines two Canadian initiatives, the Edmonton ...