Journal Articles

Aboriginal

Horn, C., & Halseth, G. 2011. Seeing like a circle: Perspectives on the field from a dialogue on urban Aboriginal economic development.  Aboriginal Policy Journal 1(2): 101-131.

Aging

Skinner, M., Joseph, A., Hanlon, N., Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2014. Growing old in aging resource communities: Linking voluntarism, aging in place and community development. The Canadian Geographer 58(4): 418–428.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2013. So you’re thinking about a retirement industry?  Economic and community development lessons from resource towns in northern British Columbia. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 44(1): 83–96.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2012. Resolving mobility constraints impeding rural seniors’ access to regionalized services.  Journal of Aging and Social Policy 24: 328–344.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2011. Mechanisms for delivering information to seniors in a changing small town context. Journal of Rural and Community Development 6(1): 49-69.

Hanlon, N., & Halseth, G. 2005. The greying of resource communities in northern BC: Implications for health care delivery in already under-serviced communities. Canadian Geographer 49(1): 1-24.

Community-based Research

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. 2022. The “politics of method” in volatile settings: Research with mobile workers in rural resource regions. Applied Mobilities 7(4): 374-393.

Ryser, L., Markey, S., & Halseth, G. 2013. Developing the next generation of community-based researchers: Tips for undergraduate students.  Journal of Geography in Higher Education 37 (1): 11–27.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D. 2010. Community-based research in the rural setting: Lessons from northern British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer 54(2): 158-176.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2009. Building student research capacity: Faculty perceptions about institutional barriers. Research Management Review 17(1): 1-19.

Ryser, L., Halseth G., & Thein, D. 2009. Strategies and intervening factors influencing student social learning processes in an interdisciplinary research team. Research in Higher Education 50(3): 248-267.

Community and Economic Development

Markey, S., Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Mateus, M., Barrett, J., Hallstrom, L., Vodden, K., & Gibson, R. 2025. Reluctant entrepreneurs or embracing marketization: The governance of municipal entrepreneurialism for community development in rural Canada. Community Development 1-18.

Darko, R., & Halseth, G. 2025. Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition–Valemount, British Columbia. Journal of Rural Studies 113: 103471.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. 2024. Municipal entrepreneurialism: exploring new fiscal levers for small municipalities. Local Government Studies 50(1): 1-27.

Darko, R., & Halseth, G. 2023. Mobilizing through local agency to support place-based economic transition: A case study of Tumbler Ridge, BC. The Extractive Industries and Society 15: 101313.

Ryser, L., Barrett, J., Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Vodden, K. 2023. Municipal entrepreneurialism: Can it help to mobilize resource‐dependent small communities away from path dependency? Regional Science Policy & Practice 15(7): 1477-1493.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S., & Young, A. 2023. Tensions between municipal reform and outdated fiscal levers in rural British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer 67(1): 150-164.

Ryser, L., Markey, S., & Halseth, G. 2020. Scaling up and scaling down supply chains in volatile resource-based economies. Local Economy 35(8): 831-851.

Buse, C. G., Sax, M., Nowak, N., Jackson, J., Fresco, T., Fyfe, T., & Halseth, G. 2019. Locating community impacts of unconventional natural gas across the supply chain: A scoping review. The Extractive Industries and Society 6(2): 620-629.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S., Gunton, C., & Argent, N. 2019. Path dependency or investing in place: Understanding the changing conditions for rural resource regions. Extractive Industries 6(1): 29-40.

Tuulentie, S., Halseth, G., Kietäväinen, A., Ryser, L., & Similä, J. 2019. Local community participation in mining in Finnish Lapland and northern British Columbia: Practical applications of CSR and SLO. Resources Policy 61: 99-107.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. 2018. Restructuring of rural governance in a rapidly growing resource town: The case of Kitimat, BC, Canada. ÉchoGéo, Special Issue on Rural Governance 43.

Halseth, G., Markley, S.P., & Ryser, L. 2017. Exploring new development pathways in a remote mining town: The case of Tumbler Ridge, BC, Canada. Special issue on Communities and New Development Paths in the Sparsely Populated North, guest editors Patrick Brouder, Doris Carson, Suzanne de la Barre. Journal of Rural and Community Development 12(2/3): 1-22.

Manson, D., Markey, S., Ryser, L. & Halseth, G. 2016. Recession response: Cyclical problems and local solutions in northern British Columbia. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 107(1): 100-114.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S., & Morris, M. 2016. The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions. The Extractive Industries and Society 3(3): 616-626.

Halseth, G., Ryser, L., Markey, S., & Martin, A. 2014. Emergence, transition, and continuity: Resource Commodity Production Pathways in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Rural Studies 36: 350-361. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.03.010.

Ryser, L., Markey, S., Manson, D., Schwamborn, J., & Halseth, G. 2014. From boom and bust to regional waves: Development patterns in the Peace River Region, British Columbia. Journal of Rural and Community Development 9(1): 87-111.

Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2012. From policy to research and back again: Experiences from a rural research institute.  Journal of Rural and Community Development 7(3): 31-39.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2010. Rural economic development: A review of the literature from industrialized economies. Geography Compass 4(6): 510-531.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D. 2009. Contradictions in hinterland development: Challenging the local development ideal in northern British Columbia. Community Development Journal 44(2): 209-229.

Lo, J., & Halseth, G. 2009. The practice of principles: An examination of CED groups in Vancouver, BC. Community Development Journal 44(1): 80-110.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D. 2008. Challenging the inevitability of rural decline: Advancing the policy of place in northern British Columbia. Journal of Rural Studies 24(4): 409 - 421.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D.  2008. Closing the implementation gap: A framework for incorporating the context of place in economic development planning. Local Environment 13(4): 337-351. 

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2008. Institutional barriers to incorporating climate responsive design in commercial redevelopment. Environment and Planning B 35(1): 34-55.

Halseth, G., & Sullivan, L. 2004. From Kitimat to Tumbler Ridge: A crucial lesson not learned in resource-town planning. Western Geography 13/14: 132-160.

Halseth, G., & Sullivan, L. 2003. The bright lights of the city: Intra-regional migration and the challenge for resource-dependent towns. Geography Research Forum 23: 138-168.

Health

Halseth, G., Helm, Dr. C., & Price, D. 2011. The Rural Care Needs Index: A potential tool for ‘have-not’ communities. Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine 16(4): 134-136.

Hanlon, N., Halseth, G., & Snadden, D. 2010. “We can see a future here”: Place attachment, professional identity, and forms of capital mobilized to deliver medical education in an underserviced area. Health and Place 16: 909-915.

Hanlon, N., Ryser, L., Crain, J., Halseth, G., & Snadden, D. 2010. Establishing a distributed campus: Making sense of disruptions to a doctor community. Medical Education 44(3): 256-262.

Housing

Halseth, G., Morris, M., Good, J., & Ryser, L. 2024. “A home to grow old in”: The challenge of non-metropolitan housing to support healthy ageing-in-place. Journal of Rural Studies 111: 103435.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. 2021. Moving from government to governance: Addressing housing pressures during rapid industrial development in Kitimat, BC, Canada. Housing Studies 36(10): 1618-1643.

Pitkänen, K., Hannonen, O., Toso, S., Gallent, N., Hamiduddin, I., Halseth, G., Hall, C., Müller, D., Treivish, A., & Nevedova, T. 2020. Second homes during Corona - Safe or unsafe haven and for whom? Reflections from researchers around the world. Finnish Journal of Tourism Research 16(2): 20-39.

Morris, M., & Halseth, G. 2019. The role of housing and services in supporting healthy ageing-in-place: Northern British Columbia, Canada. Ager. Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural 27: 17-47.

Labour Mobility

Markey, S., Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2020. Local content and mobile labour: The role of senior governments in capturing benefits for local communities. Journal of Rural and Community Development 15(4): 1-23.

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. 2020. Dis-orienting mobile construction workforces: Impacts and externalities within the political economy of resource-based regions. Labour & Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work 30(4): 321-340.

Ryser, L., Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Welch, K. 2019. Moving from mobility to immobility in the political economy of resource-dependent regions. Applied Mobilities 4(3): 307-328.

Ryser, L. M., Halseth, G., Markey, S., & Morris, M. 2017. New mobile realities in mature staples-dependent resource regions: Local governments and work camps. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 35(3): 500-517.

Ryser, L., Markey, S., & Halseth, G. 2016. The workers’ perspective: The impacts of long distance labour commuting in a northern Canadian small town. Extractive Industries and Society. 3(3): 594-605.

Markey, S., Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2015. “We’re in this all together:” Community impacts of long-distance labour commuting. Rural Society Journal 24(2): 131-153.

Poverty

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2017. Opportunities and challenges to address poverty in rural regions: A case study from northern BC. Journal of Poverty 21(2): 120-141.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2011. Housing costs in an oil and gas boom town: Issues for low-income senior women living alone. Journal of Housing for the Elderly 25(3): 306-325.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2011. Informal support networks of low-income senior women living alone: Evidence from Fort St. John, BC. Journal of Women and Aging 23(3): 185-202.

Recreation and Tourism

Pitkänen, K., Adamiak, C., & Halseth, G. 2014. Leisure activities and rural community change: Valuation and use of rural space among permanent residents and second home owners. Sociologia Ruralis 54(2): 143-166.

Halseth, G., & Meiklejohn, C. 2009. Indictors of small town tourism development potential: The case of Fouriesburg, South Africa. Urban Forum 20(3): 293-317.

Regional Development

Argent, N., Markey, S., Halseth, G., Ryser, L., & Haslam-McKenzie, F. 2023. The socio-spatial politics of royalties and their distribution: A case study of the Surat Basin, Queensland. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55(5): 1171-1189.

McKenzie, F. M. H., Argent, N., Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2023. Be careful what you wish for: Resource boomtowns and disillusionment in the Surat Basin. The Extractive Industries and Society 13: 101212.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., Ryser, L., Argent, N., & Haslam-McKenzie, F. 2022. Neither prepared nor transformed: Institutional responses to unconventional oil and gas development in Australian and Canadian communities. Energy Research & Social Science 90: 102584.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., Ryser, L., Argent, N., & Boron, J. 2019. Bending the arc of the staples trap: Negotiating rural resource revenues in an age of policy incoherence. Journal of Rural Studies 67: 25-36.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2019. Commentary: An agenda for comparative regional development research. New Zealand Geographer, 75(3), 216-218.

Zirul, C., Halseth, G., Markey, S., & Ryser, L. 2015. Struggling with new regionalism: Government trumps governance in northern British Columbia. The Journal of Rural and Community Development 10(2): 136-165.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D. 2007. The (dis?)connected North: Persistent regionalism in northern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Regional Science XXX(1): 57-78.

Halseth, G., Manson, D., Markey, S., Lax, L., & Buttar, O. 2007. The connected North: Findings from the Northern BC Economic Vision and Strategy Project. Journal of Rural and Community Development 2(1): 1-27.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., & Manson, D. 2006. The struggle to compete: From comparative to competitive advantage in northern British Columbia. International Planning Studies 11(1): 19-39.

Halseth, G., Straussfogel, D., Parsons, S., & Wishart, A. 2004. Regional economic shifts in BC: Speculation from recent demographic evidence. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 27: 317-352.

Halseth, G. 2004. Attracting growth ‘back’ to an amenity rich fringe: Rural-urban fringe dynamics around metropolitan Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Journal of Regional Science XXVI(2&3): 297-318.

Resource Development

Connelly, S., Halseth, G., Matanzima, J., Mateus, M., Markey, S., Measham, T., Reeves, J., Rifkin, W., Ryser, L., & Sefa-Nyarko, C. 2025. Temporality and justice in mining impacted regions. Environmental Research: Energy 2(1): 015009.

Storey, K., Halseth, G., Murphy, L., & Markey, S. 2024. Digitalization and changing value propositions for mining regions: Options for action. Resources Policy 91: 104861.

Booth, A.L., & Halseth, G. 2011. Why the public thinks natural resources public participation processes fail:  A case study of British Columbia communities. Land Use Policy 28: 898-906.

Halseth, G., & Booth, A. 2003. “What worked well - what needs improvement" - Lessons in public consultation from British Columbia’s resource planning processes. Local Environment 8(4): 437-455.

Services

Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2016. Rapid change in small towns: When social capital collides with political / bureaucratic inertia. Community Development 47(1): 106-121.

Sullivan, L., Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2014. Recognizing change, recognizing rural: The new rural economy and towards a new model of rural services. Journal of Rural and Community Development 9(4): 219-245.

Hanlon, N., Clasby, R., Halseth, G., & Pow, V. 2007. The place embeddedness of social care: Restructuring work and welfare in Mackenzie, BC. Health & Place 13: 466-481.

Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2006. Trends in service delivery: Examples from rural and small town Canada, 1998 to 2005. Journal of Rural and Community Development 1(2): 69-90.

Voluntary Sector

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., & Markey, S. (2020). Impact of senior government policies on the renewal of built capital for rural non-profits. Community Development 51(5): 646-666.

Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2014. On the Edge in Rural Canada: The changing capacity and role of the voluntary sector. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research 5(1): 41-56.

Hanlon, N., Skinner, M., Joseph, A., Ryser, L., & Halseth, G. 2014. Place integration through efforts to support healthy aging in resource frontier communities: The role of voluntary sector leadership. Health & Place 29(2): 132-139.

Hanlon, N., Halseth, G., & Ostry, A. 2011. Stealth voluntarism: An expectation of health professional work in underserviced areas? Health & Place 17(1): 42-49.

Halseth, G., & Ryser, L. 2007. The deployment of partnerships by the voluntary sector to address service needs in rural and small town Canada. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit 18(3): 241-265.