Creating sustainable communities: skills and learning in Ontario’s small urban municipalities

Rosario Adapon Turvey (), Nandakumar Kanavillil, Christopher Murray and Gerardo Reyes
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Rosario Adapon Turvey: Lakehead University
Nandakumar Kanavillil: Lakehead University
Christopher Murray: Lakehead University
Gerardo Reyes: Lakehead University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2018, vol. 20, issue 3, No 12, 1173-1190

Abstract: Abstract This article presents the pilot study results of a province-wide survey of skills and learning in sustainable community development in Ontario, Canada. The pilot project focuses on the testing of an online survey to examine skills building for creating sustainable communities in Ontario’s small urban municipalities. The survey examined the generic, technical and specialist skills, whether they are skills already acquired and/or required by professionals and practitioners for creating sustainable communities. The survey targeted 74 small urban municipalities and 300 respondents by profession. Building sustainable communities require ‘upskilling’ of the workforce as it poses a challenge to those hoping to make a real progress and development at the local level.

Keywords: Sustainable community development; Small urban municipalities; Sustainable communities; Upskilling; Skill development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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