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Crafting Sustainable Development: A Case Study Of Maine's Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
(Making waves, 1999)
What do community economic development practitioners have to learn from environmentalists? What does environmentalism stand to gain from CED? By implementing a multi-dimensional concept of sustainability, Coastal Enterprises, ...
Sustainable Livelihoods
(Rural Secretariat Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2004-06)
Written as a national policy paper for the Rural Secretariat, this paper provides a succinct and clear overview of several rural trends, challenges, strategies, and policy options for increasing the sustainability of rural ...
Success without Succession? Reflections on the Building and Sustaining of Social Enterprise
(Making Waves, 2006)
Inner City Development Inc. was established in the summer of 2002 to provide good jobs to people in Winnipeg’s inner city who live in poverty and who are marginalized by systemic discrimination. For more than four years, ...
Community-controlled economic development as a strategic vision for the sustainable agriculture movement
(Making Waves, 2000)
If industrial agriculture is ever to be dislodged, its opponents must achieve a strategic vision that encompasses a vast range of issues. Labour practices, pesticide reduction, farmland protection, nutrition, and consumer ...
Rural Paradox; The agricultural land trust looks tailor-made for CED. But is it?
(Making Waves, 2006)
In the agricultural land trust, rural Canada has at hand a useful structure for defending small-scale farming from industrial agriculture. But trusts will not get to square one until farmers themselves start to question ...
Project B2-2007 Sustainability and the Social Economy
(2007-04-11)
This project will examine the theoretical and practical implications of socio-ecological questions for the social economy or solidarity economy. The initial proposal is three parallel avenues of research: 1) a critical ...
Project B1 - Understanding the role of the social economy in advancing rural revitalization and development.
(2007-04-10)
This project will build upon the broad literature review currently being conducted for SERC II, and will focus on the role that social enterprises in specific resource sectors play in sustaining and revitalizing rural ...
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - Partnership Development Grant Application
(2012-12-03)
This funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada was prepared by the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) to successfully seek funding to support a two year development ...
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - List of References
(2012-12-03)
This list of references was included in BALTA's Partnership Development Grant funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and covers a cross-section of theoretical and ...
Synergia Project
(2014-02-10)
The Synergia Project is a new initiative whose purpose is to promote online learning technology to support the diffusion of co-operative knowledge (both formal and tacit) and practice to meet the challenges of building a ...