The aim of this paper is to explore the socio-demographic transformations of rural areas in the urban fields of influence in Quebec, as well as their implications for the governance of these territories. The situation in Quebec is placed in the North American context. A conceptual framework is...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, drawing on the work undertaken on components of local economies based on externally generated residential development, we seek to examine how the presence of neo-ruralites has revitalized the economy of the village of Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux, a rural...

The effects of climatic variability and change on Canadian agriculture have become an important research field since the early 1980s. In this paper, we seek to synthesize this research, focusing on agricultural adaptation, a purposeful proactive or reactive response to changes associated with...