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Title: Anticipating Rural Futures


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Anticipating Rural Futures
  • Bill.Reimer_at_Concordia.Ca
  • 2006/10/28
  • http//nre.concordia.ca

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Likely Outcomes
  • Urbanization
  • Natural resource stressed
  • Immigration
  • Aboriginal demographic transition
  • Global warming
  • Technological elaboration

3
Rural Outcomes
  • Depopulation and aging
  • Bifurvcation into winners and losers
  • Forced self-reliance
  • Greater vulnerability to disasters
  • Shifting use of natural resources
  • Exclusion from technological development

4
Knowledge expansion
  • Your community, region, nation, globe
  • How do they work?
  • Markets

5
Collaboration and Networks
  • Knowledge expansion
  • Learn to collaborate
  • Within communities
  • Between communities
  • Among communities, government, private, public,
    civic, family
  • Urban people and groups
  • With schools, colleges, universities

6
Knowledge and collaboration for what?
  • Identify assets
  • Reorganize assets
  • New export opportunities
  • Capturing value for local

7
Rural Futures
  • Natural resources remain important
  • Rural-Urban relations critical
  • Climate change a challenge
  • Social order and quality of life critical
  • Vision
  • Research
  • Discussion
  • Follow the questions

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Anticipating Rural Futures
  • Bill.Reimer_at_Concordia.Ca
  • 2006/10/28
  • http//nre.concordia.ca
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