Study/Étude : Revitalization: Fate and Choice

Source: Bob Annis, Rural Development Institute
I am pleased to provide a new publication, Revitalization: Fate and Choice, for your consideration as a book review. This publication focuses on comparative rural development in Canada and Japan.

I am pleased to provide a new publication, Revitalization: Fate and Choice, for your consideration as a book review. This publication focuses on comparative rural development in Canada and Japan. The diversity of subject matter is an outcome of the synergies of the collaborative model of the Canada-Japan Project and of a comparative household survey carried out for a random sample across four research sites in Canada and two in Japan.

The book is an investigation of concrete matters of investment, social capital, effectiveness of volunteering, the rural household economy, governance and policy issues. This publication builds on the Rural Development Institute’s history of open access publications (other examples include the Journal of Rural and Community Development and Manitoba from the Air). Leonard P. Apedaile (Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta) and Nobuhiro Tsuboi (Professor of Agricultural Economics (retired), Tsukuba University, Japan) edited this publication. The Rural Development Institute, Brandon University is the publisher for the publication Revitalization: Fate and Choice.

The electronic publication can be accessed at http://revitalization.brandonu.ca free of charge. The publication is designed for rural activists, policy makers, bureaucrats and most of all for students of the co-evolution of rural and urban interests globally. A unique feature of the electronic publication is the online discussion forum – allowing readers to pose questions and comments on the publication.

To assist in circulating information on this publication, please forward this email to colleagues and/or organizations with interests in rural development. I would also encourage organizations to post a link to the publication on their respective websites.

Sincerely,
Robert C. Annis
Director, Rural Development Institute
Brandon University