Professor co-authors book on northern development

A new eBook co-edited by a local author looks at northern development in rural communities and represents "a decade of international collaboration."

Greg Halseth, a geography professor at University of Northern B.C., and Tor Gjertsen, an associate professor at The Arctic University of Norway, present "a more holisticand integratedapproach to local and regional development gained from examples in Canada, Russia and the Nordic countries."

The release said the book's main themes are governance, community, economic, development in indigenous communities and social and economic development.

Sustainable Development in the Circumpolar North's online publication is timed with the tenth anniversary of the Gargia Conferences, which brings the international community together every year to discuss local and regional development in the circumpolar north.

Halseth is co-director of the Community Development Institute and also the Canada Research Chair in rural and small town studies.