Sean Markey's research while affiliated with Simon Fraser University and other places

... Place-based development embraces the notion that local people and organizations are best equipped to understand local problems, and centres the natural, human, and physical assets that make communities and regions unique (Layton, 2016;Markey, Breen, Vodden, & Daniels, 2015). Although rural local governments are often keen to exert greater levels of control over their own development, they often struggle to bridge the planning-to-implementation gap due to jurisdictional barriers and human and financial capacity constraints (Sorensen, 2016;Ryser, Halseth, Markey, & Young, 2022). Strategic partnerships with other place-based actors, such as communitybased organizations (CBOs), may help to overcome these capacity constraints while maintaining local control (Markey, Halseth, & Manson, 2012). ...

... Comparing with the unconventional oils, the conventional oils were low density, high heating value and liquid state. Besides, the conventional oils would be easy to use (Markey et al., 2022). ...

... From a business and community perspective, transit systems have a range of direct, indirect, and induced impacts, including job creation, resident attraction, workforce attraction, market accessibility and more. 2 It is a mistake to assume all people living in rural areas have access to personal vehicles. It is equally a mistake to assume that regular, shorter trips occur within a single community. ...

... Concerns about dependence on extractive industries at the regional or local level have prompted discussions about the need to develop more diversified local economies that can avoid falling victim to boom-bust cycles or becoming ghost towns once resources are depleted [26][27][28]. For instance, over the past 30 years, Romania has undergone extensive industrial restructuring, which resulted in a decline in domestic production and the operational closure of most unprofitable mines. ...

... However, Dejene (2014) reported conflicting findings and noted that it is the experience and managerial expertise of cooperative leaders which is the core determinant of cooperative competitiveness in the small holder sector. This is supported by Gunton (2021), who posits that the purpose of a cooperative is to realise the economic, cultural, and social needs of the members and the surrounding community. This can be achieved by observing proper governance practices such as appointing competent board members who foster loyalty and trust. ...

... Igualmente, o conceito de "comunidade" também possui uma infinidade de significados, podendo estar relacionado a um local geograficamente delimitado com pessoas em interação social ou grupos de pessoas com interação não baseada na proximidade, mas em interesses comuns, por exemplo (eodori, 2008). Essas diversidades de definições e estruturas conceituais entre teorias de desenvolvimento comunitário podem inclusive ser contrastantes em algum grau, influenciando o significado do desenvolvimento comunitário e sua aplicação (Gunton & Markey, 2021). ...

... In recent years, as low-carbon energy, the demand for natural gas has gradually increased worldwide (Petkovic et al., 2021;Gunton et al., 2021;Daneshzand et al., 2018). According to the prediction of Zheng et al. (2021), from 2024 to 2030, China's average total natural gas demand will rise from 315.378 billion m 3 to 436.327 billion m 3 . ...

... Historically, CBAs have mainly been used in the developing world or in territories of the First Nations, i.e., regions that suffer from structural challenges originating from a colonial past (CCSI and CIRDI, 2018;Natural Resources Canada, 2020). In such regions, traditional governance instruments alone, state regulation, and corporate social responsibility programs have been perceived as insufficient to mitigate negative impacts and to secure fair benefits and rights for the impacted communities (Boron and Markey, 2020). ...

... Driven by this situation, China and the world urgently need a large number of artificial intelligence projects to be applied in the industrial field. Among them, deep learning is the core of artificial intelligence, and it is the mainstream technology that enables artificial intelligence to achieve prosperity from concept to prosperity [1][2][3][4][5]. ...

... Whether conducted within administrative or non-administrative regions, these findings highlight the need for SI initiatives to engage a wider range of rural actors. Although the strong role of community foundations expands the focus beyond governmental actors which have often been the focus of SI literature [13,16], while supporting recent research on the importance of philanthropic organizations for rural sustainability in Canada [139], the data-driven approach discussed above suggests that VS may not be appropriate for foundations with limited capacity. Future research and practice should explore whether collaborative regional governance arrangements occurring in rural Canada could provide the needed capacity to initiate and sustain SI tools within such settings [24], using multi-stakeholder approaches that engage key actors like foundations, municipalities, and regional government bodies. ...