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There is a pressing need to develop a coherent and appropriate conceptualization of ‘resilience’ in the context of agricultural production as well as a tool for its practical assessment. Here I do both. I use a systematic and integrative approach to review and assess recent conceptualizations of ‘resilience’ and analytical frameworks. Following this review, I develop six conditions enabling resilience in agroecosystems, which inform the development of a conceptual framework and the selection of variables and indicators. Applying the conceptual framework to the Canadian agroecosystem in a general manner serves to identify opportunities for farmers and policy-makers to assess, discuss, and manage agroecosystem resilience. The high-level assessment demonstrates that important changes underway in the Canadian agroecosystem support resilience through re-organization, adaptation, and learning. However, the current focus on maximizing productivity and efficiency often leads to reduced diversity; increased connectivity; protection against disturbances; reliance on anthropogenic inputs; and missed opportunities for shared learning and experimentation. This focus on productivity may not support the long-term resilience of agroecosystem. Therefore, ensuring that agroecosystems can adjust to big and small disturbances in the future requires that we shift our thinking to recognize and support the complex adaptive nature of agroecosystems and adopt adaptive management approaches.

Beware, towing in effect -- Whitehorse exchange students at Malaspina -- Lovick to head heart campaign -- Videodiscs, yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- There is still time to register -- Three free events scheduled -- Weigh your salads and fries -- Scholarships and bursaries deadline -- Early childhood education film series -- Office changes -- Dance club resumes classes -- Universal gym and fitness training demonstrations -- Know television job training program -- Tennis, anyone -- For your diary https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/744/MainlyMalJan25-83.pdf?sequence=3

New funds for college announced -- Streamlined institutional evaluation comes to Malaspina -- Board elects new chairman, vice chairman -- Board approves tuition changes -- College people -- Canadian daughter's league scholarship -- Environmental consciousness through the arts in China -- Medical services plan premium increased -- Annual ceramics seminar set for April 5 -- Last chance for Expo passes group rate -- Please pick up your Expo passes -- A South African woman speaks -- On with the show -- For your diary https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/838/MainlyMalMar8-86.pdf?sequence=3

Menu from Beef King restaurant in Hong Kong. Text in Chinese. From the Imogene Lim restaurant menu collection https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/3161/LimBeef.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Senior administrators, September 16 synopsis -- Area chairmen, September 14 synopsis -- Note, tow away zones -- Enrolment figures very encouraging -- Faculty asks to meet presidential hopefuls -- Restore cutbacks, board asks -- One more step for student housing -- Off-campus credit course policy approved -- BCGEU negotiations start -- Appoints approved -- Women's centre fall workshops -- Anne Cameron reading -- Stress workshop -- Discovery room reopens -- Toll free lines misused -- Fact - opinion and the press -- Housing & travel subsidies -- Golf classic coming up -- Chaplin movie on Sunday, 27th -- Toll billing numbers -- Cowichan Valley post-secondary planning -- Amateur radio talk -- LRC acquisitions list available -- Teaching techniques workshop -- Barbeque a success -- For your diary https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/684/MainlyMalSep22-81.pdf?sequence=3

Guess the weight of independence -- President's report items -- Gymnasium open and running -- 18 wheels, you can't go wrong -- College's role topic of lectures -- SAC meets November 24 -- Geography film series continues -- Brass tacks choir sings November 18 -- Milky way featured on Sunday, November 20 -- Order business cards now -- Curling bonspiel great success -- Staff changes in bursar's area -- Lunchtime theatre Thursday -- Ski film festival -- Telephone error -- Study skills centre announces seminar series -- Events this week https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/614/MainlyMalNov14-77.pdf?sequence=4

Video recording of the keynote address of the Couch Stone Symposium in Nanaimo, BC at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, April 21-23, 2016.

Stream remediation was undertaken at two impassable fish obstacles in Morrison Creek in Courtenay, British Columbia. These barriers were identified as impassable to the endangered Morrison Creek lamprey (Lampetra richardsoni variety marifuga) and a seasonal impediment to the movement of salmonids. The success of this remediation was not only in the removal of barriers to lamprey but in balancing the needs of multiple species of differing and sometimes conflicting habitat requirements. Community engagement was also a key outcome of the remediation with increased awareness of the protected lamprey species, hands-on interaction with stream remediation activities and the interaction and cooperation with landowners. What remains to be determined is if these remediation activities can slow or reverse the decline observed in catches of Morrison Creek lamprey. https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5435/Lamprey.Habitat.pdf?sequence=3

The poet Edward Thomas died in 1917 during the Battle of Arras. While his life was minutely documented, the way he died is open to question. Novelist Kathy Page uses the available evidence to construct several possible versions of the poet’s last moments. What emotional necessities have turned his death into a story and have kept the poet alive in our imaginations?

Cast your vote now for the greatest Malaspinian https://viuspace.viu.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/1103/PlainlyMalJan8-05.pdf?sequence=3