Newsletters
Published three times a year, the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology Newsletter includes information, events and news from inside the Department. To view past newsletters, please see the links below.
If you have questions, comments, or ideas, please feel free to contact us at rees.dept@ualberta.ca or (780) 492-4225.
Please note: All Newsletters below are PDFs.
2012
January
Newsletter Highlights: The Extraordinary Life of John Proskie ; Brenda Parlee on the social economy of Canada's North ; Debra Davidson on Alberta oil sands development ; Marty Luckert on policies for sustainably managing Canada's forests ; Lars Hallstrom on balancing water usage in rural communities ; David Kaczan on water scarcity and poverty levels in Africa ; Choices seminar opens up career and grad school opportunities for students ; Strong Turnout for U of A Farmers' Market Pilot Project ; Zoe Todd Awarded the Trudeau Scholarship ; ENCS Students Tackle Climate Change in Mock UN Negotiation ; REES Faculty on rural futures.
Note: copies of this issue are being mailed out with an insert of a brochure of our 50th anniversary celebration.
2011
October
Newsletter Highlights: Students Learn About Farm Life on Guided Tour ; Small Study Engenders Big Changes ; U of A Receives $2.9 million for Prion Research ; Partnership Seeks to Alleviate Povery in India ; Education trumps regulation for almond farmers ; Improving Quality of Life in Rural Tanzania ; A PhD that is one of a kind ; Water Management in Rural Alberta ; Celebrating Four Decades of Scholarship.
July
Newsletter Highlights: Community Service Enriches Student Learning ; Study Finds Wealthy Diabetics Have Poorer Diets ; REES Students Put the Environment On Your Radio Dial ; PrioNet Boosts Students' Scientific Writing ; Experiential Learning Benefits Rural Communities and Students. Also included in the July issue: an insert of the Academic Summary for the Department of Rural Economy for 2010 (now known as Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology).
March
Newsletter Highlights: Rural Economy students taking part in the Rural Experiential Learning Initiative (RELI) pilot project ; Vic Adamowicz on the Total Economic Value of the Polear Bear ; John Parkins on Advisory Committees in the Alberta Forest Sector ; Rural Economy's upcoming 50th anniversary ; Rural Economy scholars participating in the Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA) project ; REGSA 2011 Student Conference.
January
Newsletter Highlights: Field course in Tanzania offered by Rural Economy and Renewable Resources professors ; Rural Economy scholars rank the research output of Agriculture Economics departments in the U.S. and Canada ; M.S. Swaminathan (the founder of the "green revolution" in India) visits Rural Economy alumni's family farm ; Dr. James Rude assesses the competitive position of the Canadian pork industry.
2010
June
Newsletter Highlights: Community Resilience to Population Change of Caribou in Northern Canada ; Distinguished scholar in residence Shirley McClellan receives honorary degree from University of Lethbridge ; Sandeep Mohapatra on the usefulness of grower education programs in pesticide regulation ; John Parkins involved in a new project titled "Alberta Climate Change in Alberta and Beyond" ; Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities (ACSRC) Gaining Momentum.
March
Newsletter Highlights: Developing Successful Institutional Response Strategies to BSE and Food Safety in Canada ; Second Phase of Watershed Evaluation Brings Rural Economy to Pipestone Creek ; Phillippe Marcoul and Brent Hueth Find Reduced Need for Cooperative CEOs to Receive Performance-Based Pay ; Rural Economy Awarded Prestigious Agricultural Policy Research Network for the Second Time ; Linking Environment and Agriculture Research Network (LEARN) Created and Awarded to Rural Economy ; Rural Economy Involved in the North Saskatchewan River Watershed ; Rural Economy Undergraduates Get Involved in Albertan Food Community.
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