International Comparative Rural Policy Studies
Dear Exploring Rurality readers, for the last three years this blog has been edited on a voluntary basis by Katja and Kjersti, with Eric and Bernat joining the team along the way. The job has taken more consideration, time and effort than one might immediately think, and the response from the ICRPS community and ICRPS alumni Read More …
by the editors 1/2/2015 This came from Tom Johnson ——- Abstracts are being accepted for The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus: An Emerging Challenge for Rural Policy Workshop The International Comparative Rural Policy Consortium, the Rural Policy Research Institute and the Rural Policy Learning Commons announce a workshop entitled The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus: An Emerging Challenge for Rural Policy Read More …
by the editors 1/2/2015 Recently, we have had this announcement sent to us from Bill Reimer at Concordia …… 2015 Early Career Research Award Competition MS, PhD and Early Career Research Award Competition This year the Rural Sociological Society Council has authorized the use of Endowment funds to support Master’s theses, Ph.D. dissertations, and Early Career Read More …
by the editors 25/01/2015 High quality chapters are sought for a new peer reviewed book at high level on Inclusive, Grounded Innovation in the sphere of biological resources and related industries and activities. A post-‐ submission grant of €600 will be offered to authors who need support and who have little or no access to Read More …
The call for abstracts for the European Society for Rural Sociology Congress is now on-line: http://www.esrs2015.eu/content/call-abstracts-now-open The congress theme is ‘Places of Possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World’. There are 25 working groups addressing an exciting range of key topics in rural and environmental studies, ranging from the future of food, farming, rural society Read More …
The Exploring Rurality Editor Team want to thank all of you for another year of rural challenges and prosperity! A special thank goes to all thouse who have contributed to the blog throughout the year. Much appreciated! Wish you all a happy holliday and a good start in the new year. See you in 2015! Read More …
by the editors 17/12/2014 Brandon University’s Rural Developement Institute (RDI) started a blog this fall: https://www.brandonu.ca/rdi/rdi-blog-rural-development-in-canada/ Head over there for more stories on rural developement in Canada. Exploring Rurality contributor Wayne Kelly has already done postings to the RDI Blog. Thanks for the tip, Yakub! Picture: Screendump from the RDI blog
The international think tank on european agriculture and rural development “Groupe de Bruges” has developed a comprehensive e-learning course on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We expect that this might be of interest to many of our readers. The following is The Groupe de Bruges presentation of their course. If any of you follows Read More …
Please join the Rural Sociology Graduate Student Association (RSGA) at The Pennsylvania State University for our second annual Rural Studies Graduate Studies Conference February 13-14, 2015 on Penn State’s campus in State College, Pennsylvania. Registration is now open and can be found here. This conference welcomes graduate students from all disciplines and all institutions who study Read More …
By the editors 19/11/2014 This is what we have recently read that we think can be of interst for you. Please remember that we much appreciate input on worth reading articles from our rural prosperity community! Poorer regions struggling to catch up in advanced economies, says OECD Regional Outlook 2014 Why Post Offices Need to Offer Read More …