profile: david J. A. douglas (retired)

Professor Emeritus

BA (National University of Ireland)

MA (Toronto)

MCIP, RPP

Telephone: 519.824.4120 ext 53154

Fax: 519.767.1686

Email: djdougla@uoguelph.ca

Office: 115  Johnston Hall

David Douglas is past-President (2009-11) and a Board Member on the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF), co-host of the national Rural Research Workshop (2011, 2012) in Ottawa, the Rural Development Expert Advisor for the Province of Zakarpattia, Ukraine (2011-13), a co-investigator on a major four university project on "new regionalism" in Canada, editor and author of Rural Planning and Development in Canada (Nelson, 2010), was Advisor for the pilot project on rural regional collaboration in Western Canada and the North, the Community Collaboration Project (Brandon University), and is a Member of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance.  He is actively involved in a number of research projects and community outreach, and gives the Community Economic Development course (RPD-6370) within Rural Planning and Development.  Other current research involves an examination of the  relationships between development planning theory and practice.  Fieldwork for this project, in part supported by a SSHRC grant, has been undertaken in Europe (Ireland) and Newfoundland and Labrador.  Other activities include research on regionalism and regional planning policy and practice, and a new chapter on radical rural development planning and sustainability (University of Alberta, 2012).

Primary Areas of Academic Interest:
Rural community development and governance, local and community-based economic development, rural development policy, strategic planning and management, regional development planning, sustainable development, participatory process, local government, organizational analysis and development, small community design, planning and development theory.

Primary Regions of Interest:
Canada, Europe, Other International (Iran, China, Pakistan)

Courses Instructed:
The Rural Settlement: Planning and Management (RPD*6060)
Rural Planning and Development Theory (RPD*6240)
Economic Development for Rural Communities (RPD*6370)
Economic Development for Rural and Smaller Communities (Distance Education Course EDRD*3550)

Associated Links:
Association of Municipalities Ontario (www.amo.on.ca)
Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (www.crrf.ca))
Canadian Institute of Planners (www.cip-icu.ca)
Community Development Society (http://comm-dev.org)
Ontario Professional Planners Institute (www.ontarioplanners.on.ca)
Ontario’s Economic Development Network (www.edco.on.ca)
Rural Ontario Municipalities Association (http://www.roma.on.ca/index.asp)
The Association of European Schools of Planning (www.aesop-planning.com)

For more information on David's work, please review information listed in the publications and research & practice sections of this site.

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