Sean Markey

Sean Markey

Title or Function

  • Researcher

Expertise

  • Rural Development; Sustainable Community Planning; Social Economy; Sustainable Infrastructure.

Institution/Organization

  • Simon Fraser University

Regional Center

  • Prairies-Ouest

Websites

Biography

Sean Markey is a professor and certified planner with the School of Resource and Environmental Management. His research concerns issues of local and regional economic development, rural and small-town development, community sustainability, and natural infrastructure. Sean continues to work with municipalities, non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities and the business community to promote and develop sustainable forms of community and regional development. Sean is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. Sean serves as a co-lead for the SSHRC funded Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC) partnership project, is a co-investigator for the SSHRC funded Place-based Collective Endowments in the Periphery project, and has served as a member of the Board for the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF).

Publications

  • Halseth, G., Markey, S., Ryser, L., Manson, D. (2016). Doing Community-based Research: Perspectives from the Field.Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
  • Gismondi, M., Connelly, S., Markey, S., Roseland, M. (eds.) (2016).Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability. Athabasca: Athabasca University Press.
  • Markey, S., Breen, S., Lauzon, A., Gibson, R., Ryser, L., Mealy, R. (eds.) (2015). State of Rural Canada.Calgary: Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation.
  • Markey, S., Halseth, G., Manson, D. (2012). Investing in Place: Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press.
  • Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S. (2018). Restructuring of Rural Governance in a Rapidly Growing Resource Town: The Case of Kitimat, BC, Canada. ÉchoGéo,Special Issue on Rural Governance, 43: 1-14.
  • Ryser, L., Halseth, G., Markey, S. and Morris, M. (2017) New Mobile Realities in Mature Staples-Dependent Resource Regions: Local Governments and Work Camps. Environment and Planning C: Politics and space, 35(3): 500-517.
  • Manson, D., Markey, S., Ryser, L., Halseth, G. (2016). Recession Response: Cyclical Problems and Local Solutions in Northern BC. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 107 (1): 100-114.
  • Markey, S., Breen, S., Vodden, K., and Daniels, J. (2015). Evidence of Place: Becoming a Region in Rural Canada. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(5): 874-891.
  • Markey, S., Ryser, L., Hasleth, G. (2015). “We’re in this all together:” Community Impacts of Long-distance Labour Commuting. Rural Society, Vol 24(2): 131-153.