Traditions and transformations in the sustainability of rural communities: Balancing Living Culture and Nature speaks to both the history and future of rural communities. The waterfalls, fjords and lakes of Telemark became the heart of industrialization with the harnessing of hydropower. A canal cut into the heart of the region to Read more…
C2Uexpo 2017 will celebrate and showcase community-campus partnerships – local, national and global – which advance social, health, environmental, educational and collective strategies supporting transformation for the common good. We invite proposals that: Showcase innovative models, experiences and best practices of community-campus programs. Provide critical examinations of how partnerships and Read more…
Organized by María Cristina Manzano-Munguía (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla) and Mark Watson and Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University, Montreal). For two days in March 2017 in the historic colonial City of Puebla in central Mexico, organizers will bring together a group of international scholars to explore the possibilities and challenges of Read more…
Paper proposals are invited for the ‘Daily Practices and Global Countrysides’ at the International Rural Sociology Association Congress, 10-14 August 2014 at Ryerson University, Toronto. Details of the session are outlined below. The session organizer will liaise in the selection of papers and papers may be moved between the sessions Read more…
Paper proposals are invited for the ‘Daily Practices and Global Countrysides’ at the International Rural Sociology Association Congress, 10-14 August 2014 at Ryerson University, Toronto. Details of the session are outlined below. The session organizer will liaise in the selection of papers and papers may be moved between the sessions Read more…
Are you thinking of going to the Canadian Political Science conference, May 31-June 2nd, 2016 in Calgary, Alberta? Please consider submitting your paper to our environmental politics workshop. Kate Neville and Andrea Olive from the University of Toronto political science department are seeking contributions on environmental politics, broken down into Read more…
Hot off the press – the August 2015 edition of the CRRF e-newsletter!
The Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy (CNREP) is announcing a Call for Abstracts and Session Proposals for CNREP 2016: Challenges of Natural Resource Economics & Policy, the 5th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems. The conference is scheduled for March 20-22, 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Read more…
The June 2015 edition of the CRRF e-newsletter is now available! Click here to read about rural and regional development stories from across the country. You can sign up to receive the monthly e-newsletter by click here.
As part of the Building Community Resilience conference three field trips are being organized. In collaboration with local organizations, each field trip will highlight local initiatives to achieving resilience. All conference delegates will get to participate in one field trip as part of their full registration. Below is a brief description Read more…