Place Peripheral
Place-Based Development in Rural, Island, and Remote Regions
Will be published approx. on 25. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-1-894725-25-5 (ISBN)
Description
Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales from a place-based approach. This is a timely edited collection, addressing themes that are receiving considerable attention in Canada and internationally as local communities, scholars, researchers and public policy analysts strive to better understand and apply place-based strategies in rural and remote regions. The volume and its contributors examine place-based economic development strategies, recognizing the broader and deeper significance, meanings, and attachments often associated with place and also interrogating such relationships as may exist between sense of place, cultural and social development, and environmental stewardship.
Reviews / Votes
"an excellent volume that breaks open the development dialogue and encourages us to think about cultural assets in place-based development. Readers will be pleased to add this volume to their bookshelves...and put it's ideas into work in research, policy, and practice." - Greg Halseth, University of Northern British Columbia"This is a key theme of this book: that peripheries are not inevitably destined to remain so, and even in this globalized and centralized world, they do have agency, and can change the lives of local people for the better." - John Bryden, University of Aberdeen
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Publishing group
Memorial University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-894725-25-5 (9781894725255)
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Persons
Kelly Vodden is a research professor with the Environmental Policy Institute and Associate Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University. She has been engaged in the rural community and regional development research, policy, and practice across the country, particularly in Newfoundland and Labrador, for more than 25 years. She has published and led projects on topics ranging from rural regional governance and development models to climate change adaptation, rural drinking water systems, and labour force mobility, and has written and presented widely on these topics.
Ryan Gibson is Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary's University, Canada.
Godfrey Baldacchino is Professor of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta, and Island Studies Teaching Fellow, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Ryan Gibson is Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Saint Mary's University, Canada.
Godfrey Baldacchino is Professor of Sociology, University of Malta, Malta, and Island Studies Teaching Fellow, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.