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from Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise · by Natalie Slawinski · set at Fogo Island Inn

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Fogo Island Inn

“Shorefast is a charitable organization launched in 2006 with a mission to build cultural and economic resilience on Fogo Island. Situated off the northeast coast of the island portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Canada, this settler island community depended for hundreds of years on fishing cod. At its peak in the 1950s, Fogo Island's population was over 4,500. Fifty years later, declining fish stocks and dwindling economic opportunities resulted in the population declining by more than half. Fogo Islanders left their home and way of life in search of employment, and the former vibrancy of the place diminished along with hope for the future.”

Introduction, p. 27. Editors describe Fogo Island as the foundational case from which the PLACE Framework was derived.

Slawinski, Lowery, Seto, Stoddart & Vodden, eds., 'Introduction,' Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise (Memorial University Press, 2023), p. 27 — source

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Around the world, rural and urban communities alike face growing socio-economic and environmental challenges. Confronted with mounting threats of climate change, food insecurity, resource depletion, and ... source

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    Shorefast's place-based work on Fogo Island is the foundational case study from which the editors' PLACE Framework emerged. Subject (not setting) — the book is academic prose about Fogo, not narrative set there.

    Slawinski, Lowery, Seto, Stoddart & Vodden, eds., Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise (Memorial University Press, 2023) — source

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  1. 1.Scene source — Slawinski, Lowery, Seto, Stoddart & Vodden, eds., 'Introduction,' Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise (Memorial University Press, 2023), p. 27
  2. 2.Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise — blurb source