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Natural Resources, Local Development, Social Enterprise
(2007-03-04)
Mark Cabaj in his “Peoples History” of CED and the Social Economy notes the fundamental and pervasive role of natural resources in the evolution of Canada’s peoples and communities.. Landscapes carved by natural forces ...
Introduction to SE Reader
(2007-07-20)
The wide ranging articles in this volume engage us in the critical reflections and learning of individuals, groups, organizations, enterprises and institutions that are in the trenches, actors and researchers who believe ...
The Emilian Model - Profile of a Co-operative Economy
(2007-09-18)
Restakis, John John is a co-investigator in the BALTA node and he is the
director of a partner organization, the BC Co-operative Association.
Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy that is among the most economically ...
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 ...
Spinning the Web of Supports: Building the Infrastructure of the Social Economy
(2007-08-21)
The idea of a web of supports being of central importance to the revitalization and renewal of a particular place, or to the
development of social enterprises, has been amply illustrated in several of the contributions ...
The Solidarity Economy in North America : An Emerging Debate - January 2007
(2007-03-03)
The language of the solidarity economy is not exactly common vocabulary in Canada or the U.S. Even among practitioners and activists in community economic development, the social economy, co-operatives, economic democracy ...
Concepts and Context
(2007-03-04)
This first section of the book introduces key concepts, assumptions and ways of understanding the context within which CED and the social economy have evolved. While making no claim this modest beginning represents some ...
Social Enterprise in Human Services and Affordable Housing
(2007-03-04)
Human services and affordable housing are two constant themes in the history of CED and the social economy. This is not surprising. How we care for each other, or not, speaks centrally to the character of our social relations ...
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 ...
Supporting Innovative Co-operative Development: The Case of the Nova Scotia Co-operative Development System
(2007-09-18)
In recent years, social science research has increasingly acknowledged the role of the social economy in
building sustainable communities, and, around the world, co-operatives are recognized as major actors in
the social ...