The following list contains all of the publically available RCIP publications.

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Content Index

Rural Research
Background Papers
Manuscripts (peer-reviewed publications)
Workshop and Training Materials
Reports
Promotional Materials

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Rural Research

2002

• Accounting for Culture: A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Stan Rogers Folk Festival
  
  
• A Brief Overview of Policy Issues Related to Rural Nova Scotia's Black Community
  
  
• The Process and Impact of School Closures in Four Rural Nova Scotian Communities

2003

• Policy Barriers Concerning the Exit, Entrance, and Future Involvement of Women in the Inshore Fishery of Guysborough County
  
  
• Re-defining Productivity and Social Well-being Through the lens of Food Banks as Community-based Organizations
  
  
• Non-Profit Organizations as Developers of Affordable Housing
  
  
• Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) policy & the Scallop Fishery of Digby & Annapolis Counties
  
  
• Painting the Landscape of Rural Nova Scotia - Rural Report

2004

• Investigating Healthy and Sustainable Community Development in Nova Scotia (FULL REPORT)
  
  
• Investigating Healthy and Sustainable Community Development in Nova Scotia (SUMMARY REPORT)
  
  
• Sustaining Structures: Exploring the Collaborative Management of Wharves in Kings County (WITH PHOTOS)
  
  
• Sustaining Structures: Exploring the Collaborative Management of Wharves in Kings County (NO PHOTOS)
  
  
• Policy Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Health Professionals in Rural Areas of Nova Scotia (FULL REPORT)
  
  
• Policy Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Health Professionals in Rural Areas of Nova Scotia (SUMMARY REPORT)

2005

• Coastal Area Management in Nova Scotia: Building Awareness at the Municipal Level
  
  
• Retention of Health Professionals in Rural Nova Scotia
  
  
• Investigating Healthy and Sustainable Community Development in Nova Scotia

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Background Papers

• A Brief Guide to Understanding Policy Development (2002)
  
  
• Understanding the Link between Research and Policy (2002)
  
  
• Challenges and Barriers to Community Participation in Policy Development (2002)
  
  
• Six Background Papers for Rural Policy Forum 2004 (included in Policy Forum Report)
  
  
• Six Background Papers for Rural Policy Forum 2005 (included in Policy Forum Report)
  
  
• The Rural Policy Challenge - A Discussion Paper (prepared for the 2005 Rural Policy Forum)
  
  
• RCIP Healthy and Sustainable Rural Communities Backgrounder

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Manuscripts (peer-reviewed publications)

• Training Students to do Rural Research: The Rural Communities Impacting Policy Internship Program (in progress)
  
  
• A Community-University Alliance: The Rural Communities Impacting Policy Project (in progress)
  
  
• Building Capacity to Use Research to Influence Policy (in progress)
  
  
• Rural Communities Impacting Policy: Case Studies (in progress)
  
  
• Community-Based Knowledge Brokering: Lessons from Rural Nova Scotia (in progress)

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Workshop and Training Materials

• Guidebook for Collaborative Research Internships
  
  
• Doing Our Homework: Social Science Research as a Tool for Rural Policy Change - A Workshop Guidebook for Communities

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Reports

Rural Policy Forums

• Rural Policy Forum Report 2004
  
  
• Rural Policy Forum Report 2005

Community Data Forum

• Community Data Forum Report (2004)

Community Training, Learning and Leadership Roundtable

• Community Training, Learning and Leadership Roundtable Report (2005) (aussi disponible en Français - also available in French)

Other RCIP Meetings and Events

• RCIP Celebration Event (January 11, 2006) - Minutes
  (on the CCN website under "Community Heartbeat")

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Promotional Materials

• RCIP Brochure

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