The Complexity of Engaging Communities

Introduction: For over 20 years I have pursued community, economic and sustainable development in peripheral regional communities in Atlantic Canada, North Eastern Scotland and most recently in Quebec, a province of Canada.  Each of these regions has gone through some crisis or challenge or has been languishing in the wake of such events.  A multitude […]

Building Community – revisiting values

Building Community – revisiting values is a compilation of my articles published by Sir Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1997 COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT A conundrum Current government retrenchment with an ensuing devolution of responsibilities to more local areas is causing interesting dynamics in the field of community and economic development.  Traditionally considered the […]

Community Wealth – Community Power

With conventional jobs rapidly disappearing new mechanisms are needed to distribute wealth and provide for the needs of people.  The future will require local people have access to investment earnings as a means of wealth transfer.  Taxation and social handouts have proven a  disaster in this interim period that we have been struggling with job […]

Community Development – out from the margins

The nineties brings us to another similar but, profound juncture, as in the thirties and sixties, once again, the impacts of technological advancement begins to impact those further up the chain in society.  Local initiative and involvement are again being espoused as the route forward.   Similarly, as in other times, I would suggest, it provides […]

Recreating Community – New perspectives, New Directions

Building Community – new persectives is a compilation of my articles published by Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1995 Community Sustainability A Spiritual Mission Present societal change is causing both reflection and reorganization of the fundamentals of our society, institutions, and approach to government.  Theses shifts have been evident for the past number […]