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Constructing a Sustainable Future: Exploring the Strategic Relevance of Social and Solidarity Economy Frameworks
(2007-08)
This working paper explores recent economic trends and thinking and the resulting conceptualizations of social and solidarity economy. The project focused on examining the definition of social economy being used by BALTA ...
Le nouveau rôle des organisations de l’économie sociale: perspectives économique et sociale
(Concordia University, 2007)
This presentation to a 2007 seminar in Vancouver, Canada, of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was based on research compiled for the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) in ...
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 ...
Community reinvestment and the challenges of scaling up the social economy
(2007-10)
This presentation to the 2007 CIRIEC International Research Conference provided an overview of results from initial literature reviews conducted on behalf of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The ...
Community Economic Development, Community Development Finance: Introducing the Terms Exploring the Relationship
(2007-09-18)
How the two terms community economic development and community development finance are defined is crucial to the
construction of any development system, whether it be geographic or functional in scope. What the terms are ...
Project A3-2007 The Non-Profit Sector Capital Market in B.C. and Alberta
(2007-09-20)
This research project will explore the non-profit sector capital market in B.C. and Alberta with a focus on the role that this market can play in developing, supporting and strengthening social economy organizations.
Rural Sociological Barriers to Adoption of Conservation and Food safety in Rural Alberta
(2007-08-28)
This project was premised on the belief that adoption of conservation and food safety
beneficial management practices is affected not only by economic factors, but also by a host
of other socio-psychological variables. ...
Project C11 - Credit Unions as a Financing Source for the Social Economy
(2007-04-11)
This project explores one aspect of development finance in the social economy—namely, the role of the credit union as it appears today in AB and BC. It seeks to describe and analyze a range of activities relevant to the ...
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 ...
Project A4-2007 Role of Faith Based Organizations in the Social Economy
(2007-04-10)
The goal of this project is to document the role faith-based organizations play in the social economy in Alberta and B.C., and to investigate ways in which this role can be strengthened and expanded in the future. This ...