Browsing B.C. - Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) by Title
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Scaling Up Local Food
(i4 e-magazine, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal, 2010-11-20)The key challenge facing local food initiatives is how to scale up to the point of transforming (rather than merely “informing”) the much larger conventional food system. This article, based on research by the BC-Alberta ... -
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability - Sellsheet
(2016-04-11)The book presented in this sellsheet and recently published by Athabasca University Press examines the potential of the social economy to transform the systems that make our current ways of life unsustainable. The book ... -
Sectoral Strategies in CED: Critical factors in the success of CHCA & Childspace
(Making Waves, 2003)Scale and markets notwithstanding, Cooperative Home Care Associates (New York City) and Childspace Day Care Centers (Philadelphia) have plenty to teach Canada's co-operators and other CED activists. Kreiner challenges CED ... -
Seeking Pathways to Sustainable Food - Chapter 6 of The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady State Economy
(New Society Publishers, 2012)This book chapter explores a range of models around the world for seeking pathways to sustainable food production and consumption. It addresses this theme from the overall perspective of the book, which explores a more ... -
Seikatsu Consumer Coop: Scaling up food system transformation?
(2009-11-24)This presentation to the 2009 symposium of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) reports on BALTA research on the Seikatsu Consumer Co-operative in Japan and explores its relevance for local food system ... -
Seikatsu Consumer Coop: Scaling-up Food System Transformation
(2010-09-25)This case study 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 the Seikatsu Consumer Co-operative in ... -
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) ... -
SeikatsuConsumer Coop: Scaling up food system transformation?
(2009-11-26)This presentation was given at the Co-operatives and Local Food Infrastructure conference hosted by Alberta Agriculture and Food on November 26, 2009. It presents research conducted by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research ... -
SERC 1 WorkPlan – 2007-2008 Fiscal Year
(2007-04-10)SERC 1’s mandate includes both housing and human/social services. The research priorities reflect a balance of both issues as well as several cross-cutting issues. The agreed research priorities are: 1. The role of community ... -
SERC 1 WorkPlan – 2010-2011
(2010-07-26)This is the annual research program plan of Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 1 of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). SERC 1's mandate includes both affordable housing and human/social services. ... -
SERC 2 Bibliography
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 2 WorkPlan The Social Economy in Rural Revitalization and Development
(2007-04-10)To explore and understand the social economy in relation to natural resources and sustainable rural development in order to: • increase awareness; • identify and build capacity; • effect policy to scale up the social ... -
SERC 2: Foundations for Rural Revitalization and the Reinsertion of Social Economy Enterprises: Examining Alberta Reports, Policies and Budget Commitments
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 2: Natural Resources, Local Development, Local and Organic Food Systems in Alberta and a Case Study-of Farmer Direct Co-operative Ltd.
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 2: Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Economic Enterprises and Rural Revitalization in Alberta
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 2: Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Economic Enterprises and Rural Revitalization in Alberta - Overview of First Nation Co-operatives in Canada
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 2: Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Economic Enterprises and Rural Revitalization in Alberta - Preliminary Background to Co-operatives in Alberta
(2010-07-13)This is one of several preliminary scoping studies undertaken for Social Economy Research Cluster (SERC) 2 within the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This SERC focuses on the role of the social economy ... -
SERC 3 WorkPlan – 2007-2008 Year
(2007-09-18)SERC 3 has chosen to elevate key questions as being central to the strategic vision it advances for its work. Together they speak to context and how we understand the social economy – its drivers, the obstacles it faces ... -
Serenity Funeral Service and the BALTA Profiling Tool
(2009-02-14)This case study of Serenity Funeral Service, a social enterprise in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was done as a class project for a course in Corporate Social responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship taught by Mark Anielski ... -
Sheltering The Social Economy
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2010-10)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 ...