Journal Articles

Aboriginal
Aging
Community-based Research
Community and Economic Development
Health
Labour Mobility
Poverty
Recreation and Tourism
Regional Development
Resource Development
Services
Voluntary Sector

Aboriginal

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

Ryser, L. and 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. and 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., Markey, S., and 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. and Manson, D. 2010. Community-based Research in the Rural Setting: Lessons from Northern British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer 54(2): 158-176.

Ryser, L. and Halseth, G. 2009. Building Student Research Capacity: Faculty Perceptions about Institutional Barriers. Research Management Review 17(1): 1-19.

Ryser, L., Halseth G. and 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

Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S., Gunton, C., and 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., and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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., and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and Halseth, G. 2010. Rural Economic Development: A Review of the Literature from Industrialized Economies. Geography Compass 4(6): 510-531.

Markey, S., Halseth, G., and 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. and 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., and 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., and 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. and Halseth, G. 2008. Institutional Barriers to Incorporating Climate Responsive Design in Commercial Redevelopment. Environment and Planning B 35(1): 34-55.

Halseth, G. and 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. and 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. and 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. and 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. and Snadden, D. 2010. Establishing a distributed campus: Making sense of disruptions to a doctor community. Medical Education 44(3): 256-262.


Labour Mobility

Ryser, L., Markey, S., Halseth, G. and Welch. K. 2017. Moving from Mobility to Immobility in the Political Economy of Resource-Dependent Regions. Applied Mobilities. DOI: 10.1080/23800127.2017.1421290.

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


Regional Development

Markey, S., Halseth, G., Ryser, L., Argent, N., and 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.

Zirul, C., Halseth, G., Markey, S., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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

Booth, A.L. and 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. and 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., and 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. and 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., and Pow, V. 2007. The Place Embeddedness of Social Care: Restructuring Work and Welfare in Mackenzie, BC. Health & Place 13: 466-481.

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

Halseth, G. and 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.