Recentering Resource‐Based Livelihoods: Prosperity Beyond Extractivism and Pastoralism
Evan Curley · 2026
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Description
Evan Curley urged a new look at rural work lives in Nova Scotia in two thousand twenty-six. The province's rural towns face hard shifts in jobs and climate. Outsiders prize them as mines or as pretty scenes. Both frames miss how locals earn a living. Talks with harvesters ground this short note. Fishing, wood work, and wild food mix in real lives.
Past plans for growth missed that rich mix. Age shifts in the towns add more strain. The piece asks scholars to study work lives head-on. Land links folk, towns, and the state in one web. Wealth need not mean pits or postcards. Rural futures deserve richer terms than those two.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Evan Curley |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |