Using the community of Pemberton, BC, as a case study, this thesis explores the impacts of rapid growth and growth management on social conditions and long-term social well-being in small towns. In recent years, rapid growth in Pemberton has had a significant impact on social and economic conditions in the community. Yet with little attention in the literature to small town growth management, or to the relationship between growth management and social sustainability, the community has little guidance in planning for sustainable change. Employing both primary and secondary research methods (including key informant interviews, a review of the relevant literature, and analyses of related reports, government publications, and survey results), this analysis is intended to contribute to the general body of knowledge about rural growth management planning, and to the community's efforts to sensitively and sustainably manage its growth. In so doing, the study first establishes the theoretical context by considering the history and dimensions of growth management, and by exploring the concept of social sustainability and its relationship to growth management planning. Subsequently, in examining a number of areas of social and economic change in Pemberton (the economic base, the balance of residential and economic growth, housing affordability, town character, and community amenities), this study explores the impacts of growth on equity, social capital, and quality of life in the community, and offers the following lessons for sustainable growth management in other small towns. First, it demonstrates the ways in which growth can impact local social conditions, and the opportunities and constraints it presents for the preservation of social sustainability in the future. Furthermore, it illustrates the importance of considering the regional context in the design of growth management policies and incorporating an informed public into planning processes. Most importantly, this analysis reveals the ways in which a comprehensive and proactive growth management strategy which embodies community values and priorities can improve the likelihood that a community's long-term social well-being is preserved in the face of change.

Using the community of Pemberton, BC, as a case study, this thesis explores the impacts of rapid growth and growth management on social conditions and long-term social well-being in small towns. In recent years, rapid growth in Pemberton has had a significant impact on social and economic conditions in the community. Yet with little attention in the literature to small town growth management, or to the relationship between growth management and social sustainability, the community has little guidance in planning for sustainable change. Employing both primary and secondary research methods (including key informant interviews, a review of the relevant literature, and analyses of related reports, government publications, and survey results), this analysis is intended to contribute to the general body of knowledge about rural growth management planning, and to the community's efforts to sensitively and sustainably manage its growth. In so doing, the study first establishes the theoretical context by considering the history and dimensions of growth management, and by exploring the concept of social sustainability and its relationship to growth management planning. Subsequently, in examining a number of areas of social and economic change in Pemberton (the economic base, the balance of residential and economic growth, housing affordability, town character, and community amenities), this study explores the impacts of growth on equity, social capital, and quality of life in the community, and offers the following lessons for sustainable growth management in other small towns. First, it demonstrates the ways in which growth can impact local social conditions, and the opportunities and constraints it presents for the preservation of social sustainability in the future. Furthermore, it illustrates the importance of considering the regional context in the design of growth management policies and incorporating an informed public into planning processes. Most importantly, this analysis reveals the ways in which a comprehensive and proactive growth management strategy which embodies community values and priorities can improve the likelihood that a community's long-term social well-being is preserved in the face of change. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

The study problem was to analyze adult education participation in a rural community in conjunction with a detailed survey of the community and its residents. Three hypotheses were tested to ascertain whether or not there were any significant differences between adult education participants and non-participants with respect to socio-economic characteristics, social interaction patterns, and locality of residence. The analytical survey method was used and the principal means of data collection was the personal interview. One hundred fifty-eight non-Indian household heads and a sample consisting of thirty-two native Indian respondents were interviewed. The community studied was the Pemberton Valley in British Columbia which is an isolated mountain valley one hundred miles northeast of Vancouver. Approximately one-fifth of the non-Indian respondents were classified as farm while the remainder were not engaged in agriculture. In general, the non-Indian population had similar characteristics to the residents of other rural areas in the province. They had a median of nine to eleven years of school completed, an average annual income of slightly less than $6, 000, and worked mainly in unskilled and semi-skilled occupations. The Indians by comparison had less education, lower incomes, and were marginal in the labour force. Systematic adult education in Pemberton was limited almost exclusively to night school courses. Twenty-three courses offered between 1964 and 1966 had a total enrollment of 352 adults. Some 22. 2 per cent of the non-Indian respondents had taken at least one course within the three year period. There were statistically significant differences between the adult education participants and the non-participants with respect to nine socio-economic characteristics studied including age, number of children at home, birthplace, number of years resident in the area, number of related families living in Pemberton, farm or non-farm resident, father's education, perceived adequacy of skills, and desire for further education or training. Of the social interaction characteristics studied, social participation and road opinion differentiated between the participants and the non-participants. Locality of residence was related to adult education participation and the number of respondents who participated decreased as distance from the nightschool center increased. / Education, Faculty of / Graduate

The magnetotelluric method has been used in the determination of the electrical conductivity structure of the Pemberton area of British Columbia: Meager Mountain, which is at the junction of the Garibaldi volcanic belt and the Pemberton volcanic belt, is the focus of a detailed geothermal resource evaluation. The aim of this project is to determine whether there is a resistivity structural change across the Pemberton volcanic belt. A knowledge of this will give some information about the structural control. This will aid in the investigation of any correlation between the electrical conductivity structure and the hot springs which almost circumscribe Meager Mountain. The temporal variations in the electric and magnetic components of the earth's field were recorded at Alta Lake (ALT), Pemberton (PEM) arid D'Arcy (DAR) from July to September 1975. This profile runs across the Pemberton volcanic belt. Selected sections of the analogue data were converted to digital form and power spectral analyses were made on the latter. The computed apparent resistivity curves show a discrepancy between the EX/D and EY/H which indicates the presence of a resistivity anisotropy/inhomogeneity in the region. Since there is some power in the vertical magnetic component (Z) in the region, it can be concluded that there is inhomogeneity in the conductivity structure. Also the computed Z power attenuation ratios between stations infer that any lateral conductivity change does not persist to large depths. It is also deduced that Z power increases slightly from ALT towards DAR. Some of the difference between the EX/D and EY/H apparent resistivity curves may be due to near surface inhomogeneities and the physical topography of the region. However, the bulk of this difference can be explained by considering a vertical fault zone near PEM, with ALT and PEM on the up-fault and DAR on the down-fault structure. The wider displacement between the EX/D and EY/H curves at DAR as compared to ALT can then be due to the fact that ALT is nearer the fault zone than DAR. On the basis of this interpretation one would expect a more pronounced change in the vertical magnetic component than observed. Apparent resistivity type curves for several theoretical layered earth models were computed and matched with the experimental curves. The results thus obtained indicate that the electrical resistivity structure in the Pemberton area fits the following layered earth model. The upper crustal layer has a resistivity of the order of 300 ohm-m and a thickness of about 40 km under ALT and PEM and about 60 km under DAR. At ALT and PEM, this layer is underlain by a more conductive material of resistivity about 30 ohm-m and a thickness of approximately 20 km. There is no trace of this layer at DAR. The resistivity value of this second layer is of the same order of magnitude as those usually reported from regions of geothermal investigations. The next layer at all the stations is highly resistive (greater than 2000 ohm-m) and has a thickness of about 500 km. This is underlain by a highly conductive basement having a resistivity of about 10 ohm-m or less. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Iowa, 2008. / Thesis supervisor: Theodore Dwight Bozeman. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77).