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Rural Research in Canada: a personal view

Rural Research in Canada: a personal view. Bill Reimer reimer@vax2.concordia.ca 2005/10/12. Rural Research in Canada. A retrospective view Current issues and opportunities The institutional context of rural research Building rural research for the future. Pre ARRG/CRRF (1987).

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Rural Research in Canada: a personal view

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  1. Rural Research in Canada:a personal view Bill Reimer reimer@vax2.concordia.ca 2005/10/12

  2. Rural Research in Canada • A retrospective view • Current issues and opportunities • The institutional context of rural research • Building rural research for the future

  3. Pre ARRG/CRRF (1987) • Sectoral research (Institutes, Gov’t, Universities) • Improve efficiency • Expand markets • Examples for political economy • Crises and policies • Stabilization (markets, sectors, incomes) • Labour market adjustment • Service provision and access • Regional inequities • Academic • Historical economic and political • Community transformation

  4. ARRG/CRRF Emergence • Research and policies in ‘silos’ • Little collaboration • Limited comparison • Few comprehensive rural studies

  5. CRRF • Conferences and Workshop Themes (selected) • Sustainable Rural Communities (1989) • Restructuring (1990) • Stimulating Rural Economies for the 2000s (1991) • Development Strategies: Evaluating Partnerships, Jobs, and Communities (1993) • NAFTA and the New Rural Economy (1996) • Rural Revitalization (1997) • Publications: • Rural and Small Town Canada (1992), Partnerships (1994), Rural Institutions (1997), Rural Employment (1997)

  6. NRE Research Contributions • Network of researchers • Common focus (Rural Observatory) • Structured Comparisons • Collaboration with citizens and policy-makers • Integrated databases • Research insights: Structures and dynamics of social relations (services, communications, environment, governance)

  7. Expansion of Rural Research • Health • Community development • Community economic development • Community networks and action • Environment • Aboriginal Peoples Universities, Colleges, Government, NGOs, Private

  8. Current Rural Research Issues • Community capacities • Value-added to natural resources • Service delivery • Governance • Rural-urban relations • Knowledge Mobilization

  9. Challenges to Rural Research • Competing demands • ‘Rural’ crosscuts many fields • Little institutional recognition for participatory research • Low institutional tolerance for innovation, risk, failure • Crisis and policy fads make poor research • Limited resources

  10. Building Research Capacity • Bottom-up • Diversification • Critical mass • Co-operation • Communications • Continuous human capital building • Integrate programs • Use social sciences and humanities • Long term vision • Recognition and Celebrations

  11. Rural Research in Canada:a personal view The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation nre.concordia.ca www.crrf.ca 2005/10/12

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