From June 15-18, rural development practitioners, researchers, and policy analysts from across North America and Europe will share rural policy initiatives through a Twitter conference! Over this period, researchers from Guelph will share a number of research updates. Anyone can follow the conference through the Twitter hashtag #icrps2021. Research contributions from Guelph will include:
- Beyond City Limit (ations): Place-Based Innovation in Rural Canada and Northern
Scotland (Ashleigh Weeden | June 15) - Advancing Rural Policy through Horizontal Relationships: Key Insights from a Pan- Canadian Initiative (Lissel Hernandez Gongora & Ryan Gibson | June 15)
- Municipal collaborations in rural Ontario infrastructure Management (Melissa Visser | June 15)
- Impoverishment Risks of Climate-induced Planned Relocation in Coastal Communities (Yanjun Liang | June 15)\
- Embedding rural capital: Community Investment Funds in Canada and their implications for rural communities (Alex Petric & Ryan Gibson | June 16)
- Diversity, Inclusion and Attainable housing in Rural Small-Town Areas: The Case
of Center Wellington (Victoria Agyepong | June 16) - Virtual Insanity: Fixing broken policy loops in order to bridge Canada’s digital divides (Ashleigh Weeden & Wayne Kelly | June 17)
- Understanding barriers of Nepali Immigrants living in Guelph to access recreational activities in City of Guelph (Niva Shrestha | June 17)
- Becoming an Informed Rural Community Development Leader (Norm Regatlie & Lissel Hernandez Gongora | June 17)
- Agritourism as a Solution to Rural Revitalization?: A Case Study of North Durham Region (Sarah Parish | June 18)
Conference Contributions from Day 1
Below are illustrations of the Twitter conference presentations shared on Day 1.
https://twitter.com/ashleighweeden/status/1404786015244636160?s=20
#ICRPS2021 Ontario’s infrastructure deficit has led to a focus on municipal #AssetManagementPlanning
But how can rural communities with varying capacities address their #infrastructure needs?
What are the implications of infrastructure management for #EconomicDevelopment? (1/5) pic.twitter.com/JKyT9rEIZY
— Melissa Visser (@MelissaVisser17) June 15, 2021
1/5 Horizontal relationships occur between units that don’t have hierarchical control over each other. To better understand how horizontal relationships support #ruraldev, this research analyzes a federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) initiative in #Canada 🇨🇦#ICRPS2021 #ICRPS2021 pic.twitter.com/DDSy54z2PC
— Lissel HG (@LisselHG) June 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/YanjunLiang/status/1404856375155507207?s=20
The Rural Policy Twitter Conference program outlining all the contributors, brief descriptions of research, and date/times for presentations can be found at . The Rural Policy Twitter Conference is hosted by the International Comparative Rural Policy Consortium.