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

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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

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Knowledge expansion

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

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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

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Knowledge and collaboration for what?

• Identify assets
• Reorganize assets
• New export opportunities
• Capturing value for local

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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