Our researchers are assessing tourism impacts on the environment and communities.
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Advancing three Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Heather Hall
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Innovation and entrepreneurship in rural and northern contexts
- Regional economic development planning, policy and practice
- Community readiness & community impacts related to natural resource development
- Planning in slow-growth and declining communities
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
John McLevey
Department of Knowledge Integration
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Social network analysis
- Science and public policy
- Sociology of education
- Environmental sociology
- Computational social science
- Information science
- Research methods
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and Geography and Environmental Management
Sanjay Nepal
Geography and Environmental Management
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Understanding the links between biodiversity conservation and tourism
- Resolving conflicts
- Assessing tourism impacts on the environment
- Engaging communities in local development through tourism
- Exploring linkages between tourism and natural disaster
Michelle Rutty
Geography and Environmental Management
- Tourism, environment and sustainability
- Understanding the decision-making process and behavioural response of tourists to environmental change
- Assessing climate change risks and opportunities for tourism operators and destinations
- Developing solutions to build a more environmentally sustainable tourism sector
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Steffanie Scott
Geography and Environmental Management
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Agro-food system sustainability
- Small-scale producers
- Local food systems
- Organic and ecological food production
- China, East Asia, Canada
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Food systems and sustainability
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning