This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in
post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and …

In this paper, we present a framework for the analysis of shock and conflict in social-
ecological systems and investigate the implications of this perspective for the understanding …

Scholarship on boom‐busts cycles in resource extraction often assumes that affected
resource‐rich communities are at best reactive, at worst helpless, in the face of the large …

In this paper we link contemporary thinking on craft and craftsmanship to concepts in
community development. Craft is contrasted with popular development dogmas such as …

Transitions are processes of change, change already occurring or often aspired change,
towards a goal that looks essential but that is not easy to reach (Grin et al., 2010; Johnstone …

This dissertation examines sustainability and economic vitality in the downtowns of three
transitioning resource towns in northwest British Columbia (BC), from the perspective of path …