The Long Roads between Small Towns: Barriers to building community development partnerships in rural BC

Community and Economic Development and Transformation

2009

By Laura Ryser and Greg Halseth

Northern BC is a rural landscape whose small town communities are working to cope with economic, social, and political change.  One of the ways to increase the capacity of small places to cope with these types of change is through the development of partnerships.  In response to the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic, the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition emerged in 2005 as one effort to get a region of small places working together.  This presentation explores barriers that might impede community development partnerships across the OBAC example region.