Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada ─ Taking the Next Steps

In step with rural development initiatives across Canada today, these fourteen case studies examine the shift toward sustainability-based planning as a key element of community development. Further, they explore the growth of partnerships between communities and post-secondary institutions. Rural development researchers, decision makers and elected officials, political scientists and policy analysts, and community engagement practitioners will benefit from this book’s ideal, rational progression—which mirrors the policy process itself—from problem identification to engagement, solutions, and evaluation.

Lars Hallstrom is Professor and Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities. All editors are from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Mary Beckie is Associate Professor and Acting Director of Community Engagement Studies.

Glen Hvenegaard is Professor of Environmental Science and Geography at Augustana Campus.

Karsten Mu‥ndel is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) at Augustana Campus.