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Rural-Urban Relations: Building Alliances (8 suggestions)

Click on for the data behind the claims and View Notes Page for Speakers Notes. Rural-Urban Relations: Building Alliances (8 suggestions). Bill Reimer – with a lot of help from my friends nre@concordia.ca 2004/10/14. The Rural-Urban Debate. Polarized: rural vs. urban

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Rural-Urban Relations: Building Alliances (8 suggestions)

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  1. Click on for the data behind the claims and View Notes Page for Speakers Notes Rural-Urban Relations:Building Alliances(8 suggestions) Bill Reimer – with a lot of help from my friends nre@concordia.ca 2004/10/14

  2. The Rural-Urban Debate • Polarized: rural vs. urban • Rural and urban highly integrated …but not visible • Strategies • Rural must take initiative • Make the interdependence visible • Work with common interests • Minimize damage

  3. Rural-Urban Integration in the NE 8 Suggestions • Exchanges • Goods: Goods go global • Services: Knowledge-oriented • People: Mobile, connected, and diverse • Information: Extensive, accessible • Shared institutions and resources • Institutions: Rationalized and regionalized • Environment: Increased stress and awareness • Identities: Multiple and contested

  4. 1. Look to urban interests

  5. Opportunities and Responses • Identify global niche markets • Integrate strangers

  6. 4. Maintain Diaspora Doaktown, NB 11 of 36 pages • Atlantic: 15 • Central: 6 • West: 17 • USA: 6 • International: 2

  7. 5. Build Capacities

  8. 6. Make Interdependencies Visible • Food • Water • Environment

  9. 7. Strengthen Local Identities

  10. Check your context • Location – Adjacency to metro areas • Integration to the global economy • High integration: Associative matters • Low integration: Associative less impact • Stability of the local Economy • Fluctuating: Communal matters • Stable: Communal little relation to income

  11. 8 Suggestions • Look to urban demand • Identify global niche markets • Integrate strangers • Maintain diaspora • Build all capacities • Make interdependencies visible • Strengthen local identity • Check your context

  12. Rural-Urban Relations:Building alliances The Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation http://nre.concordia.ca http://www.crrf.ca 2004/10/14 Become a member today!

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  14. Identify global niche markets • Economic theory • Trade necessary for development • Trade substitution necessary for development • Seek competitive advantage • Commodity production creates niches Return

  15. Immigration increasingly important part of pop growth. Next Return Source: Statistics Canada, Based on Catologue Nos. 91-213 and 91-520

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  19. Type of USE of Social Capital matters for HH Incomes Next Return • Adj. R2 = .37 • Constant = $9102 • N = 1697 • Logged values for USE of social capital • P < .05 • Source: NRE HH survey, 2001 • Total HH income • Market, bureaucratic, communal, associative: indexes of types of social capital • Education of the respondent • HH Size: number of people in the household

  20. Correlations are all positive for types of social capital used • No substitutions Policy: Weak safety net • But: Complementary Policy: Local strength in one can be used to build capacity in others (r) 1995 HHs – sums of logged items p<.01 Source: NRE HH Survey 2001 Return Previous

  21. Make interdependence visible • Build on existing interests of urban • Primary concerns: • Food • Water • Environment Return

  22. Context Matters for Capacity HH Income by Associative Social Capital and Global Exposure The use of social capital increases HH incomes Return …but not if exposure to the global economy is low Public expenditure on associative social capital will have higher impact in globally exposed sites NRE HH Survey 2001 (N=1698) Adj. R2 = .04

  23. Total Local Global Stable Fluct. N.Adj Metro Adj. LoCap. HiCap. R2 .37 .42 .35 .29 .43 .41 .31 .43 .35 Market 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Educ 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 HH Size 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 5 3 Bureau. 4 4 6 3 5 6 4 6 4 Comm. 5 5 5 4 3 4 Assoc. 6 3 5 6 5 3 • Regression of HH Income on Social Capital, etc. under NRE Sample Frame conditions • Ranks based on standardized coefficients • Source: NRE HH Survey 2001 (1995 HHs) USE of social capital Context Important for Transforming Assets into Outcomes (e.g. Income) Return

  24. Communal-based SoCo Bureau-based SoCo +$1,941 Education Market-based SoCo Global with Bureaucraticor Local with non-Bureaucratic +$3,009 -$4,467 +$3,825 Fluctuating Economy -$966 -$824 SoCo and Context $7,046 Rural outcomes are often conditional HH Income Adj R2 = .35 N = 1697 Source: NRE HH Survey 2001 Social cohesion can mitigate these effects Return

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