Maintaining accountability between levels of governance in Indigenous economic development: Examples from British Columbia, Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngaio Hotte ◽  
Harry Nelson ◽  
Tim Hawkins ◽  
Stephen Wyatt ◽  
Robert Kozak
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economic Development

Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1067-1068
Author(s):  
Andrew Molloy
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Small Time ◽  
Community Economic Development ◽  
Second Growth

Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia, Sean Markey, John Pierce, Mark Roseland and Kelly Vodden, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005, pp. 352.This theoretically rich, community economic development (CED) work, written by four members of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development (formerly the Community Economic Development Centre) at Simon Fraser University, is the product of a three-year participatory-action-based research project involving four “forest-based” British Columbia communities. Two Aboriginal communities and two municipalities were case studied as part of an action-learning exercise in order to gain “insight into the apparent conflict between the economic imperative and fluidity of capital versus the lived worlds of rural and small time places” (3). Through their empirical studies of the four communities, the authors argue that CED, fostered at the local level, can allow for the kind of capacity building that is needed to create diversified, sustainable economic futures for resource-based rural and small-town communities. They are careful, however, to distinguish between the use of CED as a “localized and palliative strategy” for marginalized communities caught in the throes of political and economic dependency, and the possibilities for a more robust (theoretically balanced) version of CED, which can become part and parcel of rural and small-town locally-based planning and development. While recognizing the appropriateness of CED in either situation, they argue that a host of negative economic and political factors, which are intensifying under the direction of neo-liberal ideological thinking, have resulted in a pressing need for the more robust form of community development and corresponding revitalization strategies.

Prehistoric debris avalanches from Mount Cayley volcano, British Columbia

1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1365-1374 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Evans ◽  
G. R. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Debris Avalanches ◽  
Western Flank ◽  
Historic Time ◽  
Volcanic Debris ◽  
Upper Slope

An investigation of diamicton units exposed in an extensive accumulation of volcanic debris in the Squamish valley, west of Mount Cayley volcano, has yielded evidence for at least three major debris avalanches, initiated by the collapse of the western flank of Mount Cayley in the mid-Holocene. Radiocarbon ages obtained from tree fragments contained in the deposits indicate that the events took place at 4800, 1100, and 500 BP. All three debris avalanches dammed the Squamish River and formed temporary lakes upstream of the debris. Failure of the cone took place after considerable dissection of the original edifice had exposed weak pyroclastic materials at the base of the steep upper slope of the volcano. No evidence of older debris avalanches from Mount Cayley has been discovered. Smaller scale debris avalanches probably have been common, and at least two have occurred in historic time (1963 and 1984). Debris avalanches from Mount Cayley and the effects of a possible damming of the Squamish River are major geomorphic hazards to public safety and economic development in the Squamish valley.

scholarly journals Le secteur financier et le développement économique du Québec

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Ryba
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Regional Analysis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Développement Économique

Abstract This paper which reflects the methodology and the findings of a larger study present a regional analysis of the Canadian financial sector. It denotes an historical tendency towards overconcentration of financial institutions and activities in Toronto which emerges more and more as the only financial center in Canada. Financial intermediation is weakening in other parts of the country (British Columbia excepted), particularly in Quebec to which this article devotes most of its attention. The study of the interrelation between the financial sector and industrial activity strongly suggests that the absence of an active financial sector in a region, which has reached a stage of development comparable to that of Quebec, constitutes an impediment to a balanced economic development of that region. This result is strengthened when the output of a financial sector is enlarged to two jointly produced goods, capital and information, and when the information and transaction costs involved in the production of those two goods are taken into account. The main conclusion of this paper is that there may be conflicts between the pursuit of the greatest efficiency per se of a financial sector and the pursuit of the greatest efficiency in regard to economic development.

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