Local economist David Robinson, who ran in Sudbury for the Green Party in the last federal election, will be travelling to Peru on Monday, where he will be meeting with academics, industry leaders and government officials to discuss Sudbury’s successful mining supply and service cluster and Northern Ontario’s community-based forestry. Robinson will also take some time to discuss carbon pricing.

Robinson wrote Economic Theory of Community Forestry. He has worked tirelessly to promote the concept of the Sudbury basin as a global powerhouse for mining innovation, and was the first to identify Sudbury as an economic cluster for mining supply services. Robinson is also regarded as one of Canada’s leading economic experts on carbon pricing. He is currently an associate professor of economics at Laurentian University.

You may also wish to visit Robinson’s blog, Economics for Northern Ontario, at drdavidrobinsonsudbury.wordpress.com.