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Appurtenancy reconceptualized
Olivia Choe, 2004

Borderline communities: Canadian single industry towns, staples, and Harold Innis
Trevor Barnes, 2005

British Columbia and its regional economies
David Edgington, 2004

BC at the Crossroads
Thomas Hutton, BC Progress Board, 2002

Canadian Journal of Regional Science special issue on regional development in a knowledge-based economy
Spring 2001

Communities on the edge: An economic geography of resource-dependent communities in Canada
James Randall and R. Geoff Ironside, 1996

Economic development in Canadian peripheral regions, 1971-1996
Richard Shearmur, 2001

Forest dependence and community well-being in rural Canada: variation by forest sector and region
Richard Stedman, John Parkins, Thomas Beckley, 2005

Getting More from our forests: 10 proposal for building stability in BC’s forestry communities
Ben Parfitt, 2005

How can we halt the demise of Canada’s peripheral regions?
Mario Polese and Richard Shearmur, 2003

Learning and innovation: Implications for regional policy
David Doloreux, Richard Shearmur, and Pierre Filion, 2001

No rock unturned: revitializing the economies of mining dependent communities
Joan Kuyek and Catherine Coumans, 2003

OECD project on supporting the contribution of higher education institutions to regional development
2004-07

Region economic effects of university research: a survey
Attila Varga, 1997

Regions and resources: the foundations of British Columbia’s economic base
David Baxter, Ryan Berlin, Andrew Ramlo, 2005

Regional development in the knowledge-based economy: the construction of advantage
Philip Cooke and Loet Leydesdorff, 2006

Skills and knowledge for Canada’s future: seven perspectives
Ron Saunders, 2006

Skills, innovation and growth: key issues for rural and territorial development – a survey of the literature 1980-2003
Statistics Canada

Social contract theory – the internet encyclopedia of philosophy

Supporting the contribution of higher education to regional development: lessons learned from an OECD review of 14 regions in 12 countries
Francisco Marmolejo and Jaana Puukka, 2006

The atlas of Canada: resource-reliant communities
2001

The economic benefits of higher education qualifications
Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics, 2005

The elimination of appurtenancy by the Government of BC: official report of the debates of the legislative assembly
Hansard, 2003

The engagement of higher educational institutions in regional development
John Goddard, 2007

The exaggerated death of geography: learning, proximity, and territorial innovation systems
Kevin Morgan, 2004

The impact of a new university in a developing region: the case of the University of Northern British Columbia
Geoffrey Weller, 1998

The new social contract between governments, universities, and society: has the old one failed?
Blanka Vavakova, 1998

The response of higher education institutions to regional needs
OECD, 1999

The role of small, comprehensive universities in regional development: experiences from two Nordic cases
Peter Arbo and Heikki Eskelinen, 2003

The triple helix of university-industry-government relations
Henry Etzkowitz, 2002

The university and the creative economy
Richard Florida, Gary Gates, Brian Knudsen, and Kevin Stolarick, 2006

Tiers of engagement by universities in their region’s development
Gerry Boucher, Cheryl Conway, Els van der Meer, 2003

Toward a bright future: recommendations for addressing skills shortages in western Canada
Canada West Foundation, 2005

Understanding the regional contribution of higher education institutions: a literature review
Peter Arbo and Paul Benneworth, 2007

Universities and the knowledge economy
Paul Davenport, 2001

University College of the North act
Manitoba legislative assembly, 2003

University decentralization as regional policy: the Swedish experiment
Roland Andersson, John Quigley, Mats Wilhelmson, 2004

“While a storm is raging on an open sea”: regional development in a knowledge-based economy
Loet Leydesdorff, 2006



This website features the videos, photos, and writings of Robert van Adrichem, who has explored several northern regions in transition.