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Collaboration is a major buzzword for the non-profit sector these days - whether the talk is about the sector's relationship with government funders, or about non-profits networking and forming coalitions to coordinate activity. Much of the attention is also about agencies collaborating on the ground by sharing resources and information, coordinating services for individual clients, or integrating service planning or programs. Joan Roberts and the Wellesley Institute spent a year investigating collaboration in on-the-ground health and social service delivery. Access their reports and results here.
Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Lectures
Al Gore Nobel lecture
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Lecture by R. K. Pachauri
Resilient Communities: Resources compiled by Trevor Hancock
The J.W. McConnell Foundation
The Resilient Communities Projection
Centre for Community Enterprise
The Resilient Community - Winnipeg's Exciting Experiment (PDF)
Resilient Communities: Exerpts from Judith Marcuse Powerpoint presentation (PDF)
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
Dalhousie Killam Lecture Series 2007
Resilient Communities: Northwest Regional Facilitators
Resilient Organizations
The International Consortium for Organization Resilience
How to Build Resilient Community? By Sudibyo Markus (PDF)
November 2007
Defining Health
Douglas Todd
Imagine BC 2007: Sixteen delegates gather on Bowen Island to discuss the meaning of health and community.
Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Lectures
Al Gore Nobel lecture
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Nobel Lecture by R. K. Pachauri
Resilient Communities: Resources compiled by Trevor Hancock
The J.W. McConnell Foundation
The Resilient Communities Projection
Centre for Community Enterprise
The Resilient Community - Winnipeg's Exciting Experiment (PDF)
Resilient Communities: Exerpts from Judith Marcuse Powerpoint presentation (PDF)
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
Dalhousie Killam Lecture Series 2007
Resilient Communities: Northwest Regional Facilitators
Resilient Organizations
The International Consortium for Organization Resilience
How to Build Resilient Community? By Sudibyo Markus (PDF)
Resources by John Helliwell
Social Capital, the Economy and Well-being
Globalization and Well-Being
Other papers on well-being
Urban Development
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis [PDF]
Energy—Well-Being Indicators in Action
BC Sustainable Energy Association
Tourism—A Vision for BC
Council of Tourism Associations of BC
Governance—Great Bear Rain Forest
Turning Point Initiative
Ten-year rainforest battle ends today with a historic agreement
Regional Economic Development—Signs of Progress
Witness Project
Rural-Urban Relations
A Dialogue on Rural-Urban Interdependence in British Columbia [PDF]
February 2006
‘Great Bear’ basks in peace
Gordon Hamilton
A ten-year environmental battle for Canada's largest temperate rainforest—six million hectares of land—ends with a historic agreement between first nations, government, communities, environmentalists and industry, based on sustainability.
July 2005–April 2006
Canadian Commercial Fishing: A Privilege or a Right? [PDF]
Flood Mitigation in the BC Lower Mainland [PDF]
Homeostasis and the BC Salmon
Tim Lynch
Inspired by the Imagine BC project, Tim Lynch discusses three issues key that may be key to BC’s future.
November 8, 2005
Optimism for a Post-Peak Oil Society
Bill McKibben
In this article, Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, discusses how communities will hopefully stabilize after decreasing their dependence on the overstretched, oil-dependent supply lines that mark our globalized economy.
Inspired by the Imagine BC project, Tim Lynch discusses how the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the large fish processing companies to maintain control of the fisheries through symbiotic bureaucracy.
February 10, 2005
Imagine BC: Agenda for 30 Year Change
Marilyn Hamilton
For the residents, city managers, foundations and developers of the cities of British Columbia, the exercise of imagining the province in 30 years, provides a frame of reference in which BC cities can set an agenda for change.
October 30, 2004
Dreaming a Dream of BC [PDF]
Douglas Todd
"Dreaming a Dream of BC", published by The Vancouver Sun, was written by Douglas Todd at the Imagine BC Bowen Island dialogue. The article describes the sixteen thinkers as they imagine the future of BC by discussing the larger pictures and challenging the status quo.
May 2001
Social Capital, the Economy and Well-Being [PDF]
John Helliwell
John Helliwell sets the scene for many of the papers that follow by providing an up-to-date and lucid survey of the literature on the impact of social capital on both the economy or economic performance and well-being. Helliwell documents a number of studies that show that social capital actually saves lives.
For more resources by John Helliwell on well-being, please see www.econ.ubc.ca/helliwell/pages/recentpubs.html
December, 1999
Leverage Points [PDF]
Donella Meadows
Traditionally, systems analysts look for leverage points to create change in systems such as a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, or an ecosystem. In "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System", Donella Meadows explains leverage points and asks readers to think more broadly about the many ways there might be to get systems to change.
Winter, 1991
What is Education For?
David W. Orr
In this article, David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, describes six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them.
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