Kennet Carlaw is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Carlaw received his Ph.D. (2000) from Simon Fraser University, Canada and has held lecturer and senior lecturer positions at the University of Canterbury. Dr. Carlaw has been an advisor and consultant to Industry Canada, the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, the Australian National Office for the Information Economy, and the Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Dr. Carlaw’s major research focuses are in evolutionary economics applied to historical innovation, technological change, productivity and sustainable long term economic growth and development. Along with his co-authors Richard G. Lipsey and Clifford T. Bekar, Carlaw wrote the 2006 Schumpeter Prize winning book Economic Transformations (2005) which analyses economic transformations generated by the invention and exploitation of major (general purpose) technologies from 8000 BC to present. He has also written extensively on productivity measurement and on evolutionary macroeconomic growth theory.

Mike Evans is a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies at UBCO. He has been involved in several community based research initiatives, and in particular has a long-term relationship with the Prince George Métis Elders Society. He has also worked extensively with colleagues at the Métis Nation of British Columbia on a number of research projects dealing with historic and contemporary Métis communities in BC, some of which are discussed in this volume. Together with Elders and community leaders in Prince George he put together a Métis Studies curriculum for UNBC and a number of publications including What it is to be a Métis (Evans et al 1999, 2007), A Brief History, of the Short Life, of the Island Cache (Evans et al 2004). He has also worked on a number of participatory video projects with collaborators from the Métis community and videographer and new media artist Stephen Foster. He is also involved in a number of active research projects concerned with Cultural Safety and Aboriginal health, especially in the Urban Aboriginal and Métis communities in Canada.

Lindsay Harris is a community-based researcher living, eating and gardening with her daughter and partner in Kamloops, BC. Her research interests are focused on grassroots decision-making, food security and rural development in the BC Interior.

John Janmaat is an outdoorsman, father of two, and a sustainability educator and leader in the Okanagan. He holds B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Agricultural Economics from UBC, an M.B.A. in Finance from Simon Fraser, and a Ph.D in Environmental and Resource Economics from Queens. As Associate Professor of Economics at UBCO, his research focuses on the efficient use of limited resources, particularly the economics of water resources. He holds a prestigious provincial research chair in Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability. John is the past Vice Chair of the Environmental Advisory Committee for the RDCO, and current Chair of the Kelowna Agricultural Advisory Committee.

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