About Frances Abele Frances Abele is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and Academic Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, both at Carleton University in Ottawa. Books by Frances Abele Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities edited by Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, Dave Natcher & Brenda Parlee Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy edited by Frances Abele & Chris Southcott How Ottawa Spends, 1992-1993 The Politics of Competitiveness by (author) Frances Abele How Ottawa Spends, 1991-1992 The Politics of Fragmentation by (author) Frances Abele