Climate change adaptation seeks to increase community adaptive capacity and resiliency to a changing climate and extreme weather events. Rural communities tend to be more vulnerable to climate change than urban areas as many are economically dependent on their surrounding natural environments...Read more
Across the world communities are thinking about how climate change and extreme weather events will affect them and are taking steps to prepare and adapt. Within the Columbia Basin-Boundary region, the impacts of climate change are already being felt and in response there is growing recognition...Read more
Knowledge-based economies are “directly based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information”. Knowledge is an increasingly important driver of economic growth and productivity. This transformation is linked with the arrival of information and communications technology (ICT...Read more
One of the biggest questions facing those interested in Asset-Based Rural Development (ABRD) is how to identify and measure the community’s assets. While the ABRD Knowledge Brief Part I : What is Asset-Based Rural Development discussed asset identification, the asset mapping stage is only the...Read more
Many rural communities have discovered a new way of mobilizing people and resources to create more vibrant and sustainable communities. Instead of allowing a community’s problems to define what development and services it needs, this new approach begins with what is already strong and successful...Read more
The RDI leads various applied regional research projects each year that are aligned with the RDI Strategic Plan, informed by consultations processes, discussions with the RDI and CBT staff, the RDI Governance Committee and the RDI Advisory Committee, and evaluated based on a set of criteria and...Read more
The State of the Basin is an indicator and monitoring program originally developed by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). Now a project of the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI), the State of the Basin initiative involves collecting, analyzing and reporting on indicators in order to build...Read more
The State of the Basin is an indicator and monitoring program originally developed by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). Now a project of the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI), the State of the Basin initiative involves collecting, analyzing and reporting on indicators in order to build...Read more
The State of the Basin is an indicator and monitoring program originally developed by Columbia Basin Trust (CBT). Now a project of the Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI), the State of the Basin initiative involves collecting, analyzing and reporting on indicators in order to build...Read more
The Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) is preparing to revamp the State of the Basin report and reporting process. This document is being circulated, in its draft form, to potential users of the information products. The RDI wishes to hear from concerned parties regarding the...Read more
