The Theory, Practice, and Potential of Regional Development

Vodden, Kelly; Douglas, David J. A.; Markey, Sean; Minnes, Sarah; Reimer, Bill

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“…T A B L E 2 Regression results: Disparity and remoteness. The results speak to the importance of place-based rural policy, rather than homogenous, uniform policy based on remoteness alone (Markey et al, 2012;Vodden et al, 2019). From the data, it is clear that economic disparity is not uniform across remote communities.…”

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“…The challenge of entrenched and persistent territorial inequalities makes daily headlines and is a main regional development challenge facing Canada today (Vodden et al, 2019). There is a notable rural-urban divide, with rural parts of Canada demonstrating poorer socioeconomic outcomes across a range of indicators compared to their urban counterparts (Breau & Saillant, 2016;Desjardins, 2011).…”

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The Index of Economic Disparity: Measuring trends in economic disparity across Canadian Census Subdivisions and rural and urban communities

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Krawchenko

Markey

2023

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Territorial inequalities have long been a subject of study and concern in Canada. In the face of large structural changes such as industrial shifts and the decarbonization of our economies, there is an urgency to understand such inequalities and design effective policy interventions for those places facing persistent economic decline. This paper shares a novel composite index that measures economic disparity across Canadian Census Subdivisions (CSDs) using Census data from 2001 through 2016 and the 2011 National Household Survey. Named the “Index of Economic Disparity,” it is comprised of an equally weighted average of four sub‐indices that assign percentile rankings for all CSDs based on whether they experience persistent and substantial decline in key economic areas: population, labour force outcomes, working‐age share of population, and industrial diversity. The variation of outcomes across geographies—urban and rural—highlights the importance of place‐based policies.

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The Index of Economic Disparity: Measuring trends in economic disparity across Canadian Census Subdivisions and rural and urban communities

Weaver

Krawchenko

Markey

2023

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Storytelling for sustainable development in rural communities: An alternative approach

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Chuenpagdee

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Sustainable Development

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Mainstream conceptualizations of sustainable development (SD) tend to focus on urban areas or the national or global scale-most recently through the Sustainable Development Goals. This focus often overlooks rural and natural resource-based communities, particularly those dependent on renewable resources like fisheries or forestry. Drawing from a comprehensive review, we propose an alternative approach for interpreting and measuring SD in these contexts. We integrate two seemingly contradictory approaches: sustainability indicators (SIs), whose evolution reflects competing views of the nature of knowledge and action in pursuit of SD, and the use of storytelling in policy and planning, highlighting how actors tell stories to garner support for proposed developments, influence public understanding, and mobilize stakeholders. Examining the opposing epistemologies often underlying these two approaches, we posit that they can be brought together through a transdisciplinary lens for sustainable rural development. We illustrate these potentials in Newfoundland and Labrador, a highly resource-based region in which rural communities are often characterized by deficiencies based narratives. In such contexts, storytelling can allow rural stakeholders to interpret SD while potentially enlisting SIs in telling their own sustainability stories.

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Perspectives on Geographical Marginality

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The Theory, Practice, and Potential of Regional Development

Cited by 15 publications

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The Index of Economic Disparity: Measuring trends in economic disparity across Canadian Census Subdivisions and rural and urban communities

The Index of Economic Disparity: Measuring trends in economic disparity across Canadian Census Subdivisions and rural and urban communities

Storytelling for sustainable development in rural communities: An alternative approach

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