Lars Hallström is Professor and Director of the Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities. All editors are from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Mary Beckie is Associate Professor and Acting Director of Community Engagement Studies.

Glen Hvenegaard is Professor of Environmental Science and Geography at Augustana Campus.

Karsten Mündel is Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) at Augustana Campus.

Anthony Davis has been a special education teacher with the Philadelphia School District for more than 20 years.

Roger Epp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as founding Dean of the University's Augustana Campus in Camrose from 2004 to 2011. Much of his recent writing has explored what it means to live in the prairie West with a sense of memory, inheritance, and care. He is author of We are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (2008), co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West (2001) and co-producer of the documentary "The Canadian Clearances" for CBC Radio Ideas.

“This book is an excellent compilation of research on rural sustainability issues in Canada, covering a number of topics by university researchers and rural communities working closely together.… The rural issues the contributors discuss all involve public engagement with academics and rural citizens working together, covering a wide range of issues, from Aboriginal communities to land use regarding conversion of farmland, to economic impacts of rural population loss and aging, and the meanings of sustainability.” Duane (Dewey) Thorbeck, Great Plains Research, Fall 2017