Using Community Capitals to Build Assets for Positive Community Change
Speaker
Mary Emery, Head of the Sociology & Rural Studies Department
South Dakota State University
via Conference Call
December 12th, 2013 @ 11:55am Eastern Time
To understand how communities work and scale up change, Mary Emery and her partners developed the Community Capitals Framework. In their research they determined that healthy, sustainable communities invested in 7 types of capital: natural, cultural, human, social, political, financial and built. The Community Capitals approach focus on the intersection of these capitals and how they build upon one another to create sustainable change.
Join in this tele-learning to hear from Mary Emery about the Community Capitals approach and how it could be helpful to you in your community work. There will be lots of time for question and answer during the call and a podcast will be made available after the discussion.
Mary Emery focuses on rural and community development including using the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) in evaluation, research on community change, and program planning. She coordinates the Great Plains IDEA - a trans-disciplinary multi-university distance degree in Community Development and is Department Head for Sociology and Rural Studies South Dakota State University.
Dr. Lars Hallstrom is the Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities. The Centre is charged with linking the research, outreach and educational capacity of the University of Alberta with students, researchers, rural communities, rural community organizations and policy makers at multiple levels across the province, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Hallstrom’s work focuses on comparative environmental policy, and particularly on the intersection of politics, science and public policy.
Dr. Charles Conteh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University. He specializes in Public Policy & Management, Political Economy and Governance. His current research focuses on governance structures and processes in complex and dynamic policy systems, particularly examining collaborative and strategic policy formulation and implementation. Dr. Conteh currently investigates how local, regional and national economies are reinventing themselves in the face of seismic global economic changes.
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