The University of Saskatchewan is offering a online free course on Circumpolar Innovation. This course examines the manner in which scientific and technological innovation, or the commercialization of technology-based products and services, is shaping the Circumpolar world. Nations around the world have identified innovation as being the cornerstone of economic competitiveness Read more…
Building Resilient Communities Conference invites explorations of how various ‘dark horses’ in the broad North Atlantic – including minorities, small towns, peripheries, aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice or political leverage – can rise to the occasion and chart liveable futures. Building Resilient Communities Conference will examine opportunities for sustainable Read more…
Now in its third decade, CRRF is a proven rural resource, dedicated to active collaboration, undertaking, facilitating and advocating research for the ongoing development of Canada’s rural communities and environments. As an informal, volunteer run organization dedicated to the welfare of rural Canada it provides a host of benefits to an Read more…
The Sunbelt XXXV organising committee is soliciting abstracts for paper presentations at the upcoming 2015 conference 23 – 28 June in Brighton, UK. Submission opens on 28 Nov 2014 and closes on 31 March 2015 at 17:00 GMT. We invite abstract submissions for posters (90 minute poster session) and oral presentations Read more…
The Leslie Harris Centre for Regional Policy and Development is co-hosting a Memorial Presents webinar with the Environmental Policy Institute titled What are the Environmental Risks of Fracking on Landscapes and Watersheds?. The webinar will take place on February 10, 2015 from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. The controversial practice of Read more…
Building Resilient Community Conference invites explorations of how various ‘dark horses’ in the broad North Atlantic – including minorities, small towns, peripheries, aboriginal communities, those with little money, status, voice or political leverage – can rise to the occasion and chart liveable futures. Building Resilient Community Conference will examine opportunities for sustainable Read more…
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The first call for presentations at the upcoming Building Resilient Community: Innovation, Culture, and Governance in Place conference is now open. The deadline for presentations in the first call is February 28, 2015. The conference will take place in Summerside, Prince Edward Island from September 16-19 in conjunction with the North Atlantic Forum. Building Read more…
This year the Rural Sociology Society (RSS) Council has authorized the use of Endowment funds to support Master’s theses, Ph.D. dissertations, and Early Career Research awards to support research activities conducted during the 2015-2016 fiscal/academic year. Proposals are invited to conduct research on all topics encompassed by the field of rural Read more…
The upcoming Conference on Global Sustainability of Local Foods has issued a call for papers. The deadline for submitting an abstract is February 15, 2015. Details about the conference and the themes are listed below. The complexity of industrial food production, processing and distribution and the growing distance between producers Read more…