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      The Relationship Between Community Capitals and Quality of Life in Rural and Aboriginal Western Canadian Communities: Improving Policymaking Using a Place-Conscious Approach

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      Date
      2016-06-23
      Author
      Gouchie, Miranda 1992-
      ORCID
      0000-0002-1262-3710
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Policymakers around the world now recognize that quality of life is an important indicator of what actually matters to communities. Also referred to as well-being, satisfaction, or happiness, quality of life is a complex, multidimensional construct pertaining to one’s place of residence, physical environment, social characteristics, experiences, and access to services within one’s local environment. Given the close relationship between local conditions and quality of life, using community capitals, or latent measures of the current state of communities’ various resources and capacities, to measure quality of life may provide policymakers with a more useful quality of life measure. This study uses secondary survey data to examine whether there is a relationship between community capitals and reported quality of life in rural western Canada. To explore quality of life as a product of the communities in which community capital stocks are created and experienced, this thesis will also examine whether and how the relationships between quality of life and community capitals may differ across Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in the study region. The results may help policymakers understand how different types of communities conceptualize themselves, as well as how they may pursue place-conscious policies that build upon current community capitals to maintain or improve quality of life in these communities in the future.
      Degree
      Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.)
      Department
      Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
      Program
      Public Policy
      Supervisor
      Pohler, Dionne
      Committee
      Mou, Haizhen; Massie, Merle; Hansen, John G
      Copyright Date
      October 2016
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7307
      Subject
      rural
      aboriginal
      quality of life, personal satisfaction
      community capitals
      social capital
      built capital
      human capital
      policy emulation
      place-based policymaking
      capacity building
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