Today, globalization increasingly affects local economies. Decisions by large international bodies like the World Trade Organization, and decisions within transnational corporations, affect every country and community on the planet.
Posted: August 14, 2012
Last week, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation announced $17million in new funding from the United States federal government. The funds support LISC's comprehensive approach to making life better for people in hard-hit neighborhoods by bringing better health, stronger schools, new businesses, and good jobs to low-income communities.
Posted: August 14, 2012
This summer, a House of Commons Special Committee on Co-operatives is studying the situation of co-ops in Canada. As part of the Committee's consultations, CCEDNet prepared a brief that highlights the important contributions co-operatives make to
Recently there has been growing awareness of the importance of cities, large and small, as strategic spaces in the age of globalization. They are the places where today’s major public policy challenges are being played out. Countries that invest in their cities and communities are likely to be at the forefront of progressive change in the 21st century.
What do the Homelessness Partnerships Strategy, the Forest Communities Program and the Aboriginal Leadership Strategy have in common? They are all federal initiatives that address stubbornly persistent issues by engaging in a collaborative decision‐making and planning approach within a place.
Collaborative place-based approaches (PBAs) have emerged as a means of addressing “wickedly” complex issues: those that have many interacting causes and are seen to require multiple actors to develop a co-ordinated response (Shugart and Townsend, 2010).
