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Panel Discussion on Innovating through Infrastructure
No full textPanel discussion on Innovating through Infrastructur
Four stories of Summerside’s cultural resilience
No full textSummerside\u27s modern support of Arts and Heritage dates back 45 years to modest beginnings. Summerside is no stranger to community resilience. Summerside bounced back from a shipbuilding centre to become an Island transportation terminus, followed by a world leading silver black fox production and export centre and finally the home of a military base for 50 years. 1989 was a pivotal year - the Canadian Forces Base Summerside would be no more. The citizens of this town spoke as one fighting to retain it, without success. A Federal government Tax Centre would be its replacement, itself an extraordinary feat as not every former military town would receive that level of investment by the Federal government. Cultural initiatives helped sustain the community. Summerside Bounces Back is a panel presentation on the role of resilience told by four different cultural players. Two are very successful community based non-government cultural initiatives and two are equally successful government (one provincial, one municipal) initiatives that enjoy a high level of community connectedness. You will feel you know Summerside when you meet the players who will share why and how community resilience played a part in their successful establishment. Which came first, the resilience or the culture
L’adaptation au changement climatique: Le defi de la gouvernance locale dans le territoire de Cocagne, Grand-Digue, Dundas
No full textPlusieurs communautés côtières du Nouveau-Brunswick sont déjà aux prises avec des impacts liés aux inondations et à l’érosion des côtes. Notre recherche s’inscrit dans un contexte d’adaptation au changement climatique et des actions de la gouvernance locale appropriées sur le littoral acadien du N.-B. IL s’agit d’une étude de cas dans trois (3) territoires interdépendants, reliés par le partage du bassin versant de la rivière Cocagne de à savoir: Cocagne, Grande-Digue et Dundas (ou Notre-Dame). Elle s’intéresse à l’organisation du territoire, c’est-à-dire que nous voulons comprendre comment les territoires locaux s’organisent, participent et se mettent en réseau pour faire face aux défis d’adaptations au changement climatique. Nous avons comme objectif non seulement de comprendre le processus de mobilisation en vue de renforcer la résilience et la capacité d’adaptation aux changements climatiques des communautés côtières dans une démarche de recherche action-participative. Mais aussi nous voulons comprendre les facteurs qui permettent à ces collectivités de se mobiliser afin de réduire leur vulnérabilité face aux impacts du changement climatique en territoire côtier. Cette étude est basée sur la méthodologie de la recherche-action participative qui consiste à un partenariat entre le chercheur et les acteurs sociaux (le groupe de développement durable des pays de Cocagne) dans la résolution des problèmes
Local innovation and initiative to strengthen owner-operator policy and build resilient and equitable fisheries access rights
No full textCommunities can build resilience by engaging in the governance process to ensure that their access to fisheries and coastal resources is local, culturally appropriate, and equitable between and within generations. But challenges lay ahead for governing access-rights as companies and actors from outside communities have sought out new instruments to control the fisheries value chain. While much of the discussion has focused on the distributional effects of quotas, companies continue to find loopholes to exert control over licenses, traditionally design to be owned and controlled by independent fishermen. Trust agreements, product agreements, controlling agreements, and sick days and vacation transfers are among the instruments used to undermine owner operator and fleet separation policies. Taken together, these informal property arrangements are a mirror of historical struggles between fishermen, buyers, marketers and wholesalers. We report on insights collected from field work in Southwest Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and participation in policy forums and discussions among fishermen and DFO. Fishermen’s associations have played a vital role in crafting institutional innovations that build on the legal and enforcement limitations set by DFO officials. We recommend measures that further the capacity of associations and community groups to innovate and develop flexible and locally appropriate instruments to govern access to adjacent fisheries
Building resilience: (new) regionalism, drinking water, and infrastructure
No full textDrinking water is not only a critical service, but a factor that contributes to regional resilience. Like other infrastructure systems, drinking water systems are in need of attention. However, given not only the link to regional resilience, but also the rural context, perhaps there is an opportunity for an alternative approach? This research matched challenges identified in rural British Columbia with potential solutions taken from the literature on new regionalism. The result was a questionnaire presenting multiple new regionalist ideas and exploring i) the applicability or interest of these ideas to rural areas, and ii) the feasibility of putting these ideas into place. This presentation will discuss both the initial ideas that drove this project, as well as explore the results of this questionnaire, discussing the perceived merit, applicability, feasibility, and transferability of these ideas. The presentation will also discuss what these results mean within the bigger picture of the infrastructure deficit, resilience, and rural regions
It\u27s Show Time: The Canadian Centre of Public Safety Excellence
No full textPresentation as part of the panel discussion titled "Building Sustainable Communities Slemon Park"
Fostering resilience in coastal communities in the context of climate change
No full textGlobal coastal communities are facing uncertainty and change from a number of different sources including economic challenges, changing demographics or public policy negligence. A changing global climate adds additional complexity. The tourism and fisheries sectors, often sources of employment in coastal communities, are facing changing natural systems and increasing pressure on supporting infrastructure. This is due to a warming ocean and increases in the frequency and intensity of storms leading to accelerated erosion, storm surges and flooding. Building resilience and adaptive capacity in such social-ecological systems, in the context of change, involves learning to live with change and uncertainty, fostering exchange of knowledge, and taking advantage of the opportunities for renewal. In its initial phases the Partnership for Canada-Caribbean Community Climate Change Adaptation (ParCA) research sought to integrate scientific and local knowledge to understand the multi-scale socioeconomic, governance and environmental conditions that shape vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change. Associated community visioning processes and design charrettes build on community assets to develop and evaluate local adaptation options that address community needs and cultural values. In its final phase it is seeking to mobilize knowledge to foster resilience to change in coastal communities
Results of a critical examination of New Regionalism in the Canadian context
No full textThis presentation will highlight findings of a four year empirical assessment of Canadian regional development policy and practice and in particular evidence of new regionalist ideas over the past two decades. Conducted in four provinces and five largely rural regions, the study utilized an analytical framework centered on five key themes: place-based development, governance, innovation and knowledge flows, integration, and rural-urban relationships. Our findings suggest that elements of new regionalism can be seen in recent Canadian regional development. We also identify, however, a significant gap between the expectations, theorization and in some cases rhetoric of new regionalism and policies and practices on the ground. Empirical evidence of new regionalism is uneven and partial. Integrated approaches were largely lacking, and we found limited collaboration across and within levels of government or evidence of policy co-construction. Identity remains largely emergent or even actively resisted. Attention to increasing rural-urban relationships has focused on city regions, raising questions about the future of rural communities seen as lying beyond, or in service of, urban growth centres. Implications for policy, research and the claims associated with new regionalism posed by this research will be explored
Changing the tide: New local government programming
No full textChanging the tide: New local government programmin