Scaling up: emerging regional governance structures for rural economic development
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rural and small town places in Canada are experiencing economic, social, and political changes. As such, these places are faced with having to renegotiate their economic and social viability through new challenges and opportunities. In response to these changes, some rural and small town places in British Columbia (BC) have "scaled-up" development initiatives from being locally- to regionally-based. This presentation frames emerging regional development initiatives in the context of historical regional development in Canada and BC. Contemporary neoliberal policy impacts on rural and regional development are discussed and concepts of social cohesion and social capital are used to understand how rural and small town places may be adapting to political and economic changes. The Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Coalition is identified as an emerging governance group that is addressing issues of regional development in the central interior of BC. I propose a case study of this group to gain a greater understanding about experiences of rural and small town places in regional governance structures. The presentation is concluded with a discussion of the importance of researching regional development governance to inform future policy directions as they relate to facilitating rural regional development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".