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Fall 2010

Environment and Resource Studies


Research Areas

Areas of Research
 

Research, as well as teaching, in ERS covers three broad themes. Current research areas include the following:

  • Corporate greening/green entrepreneurship
  • Ecosystem restoration/rehabilitation, conservation and monitoring
  • Ecology and governance of parks and protected areas 
  • Energy policy and management
  • Environmental/sustainability assessment and planning
  • Environmental health and toxicology, especially in First Nations communities 
  • Environmental science and society 
  • Information technology for sustainable communities 
  • Local governance and public participation
  • Mitigation of and adaptation to global climate change
  • Resource system efficiencies and auditing (energy, water, waste)
  • Socio-ecological systems resilience and innovation 
  • Soil ecosystem dynamics and sustainable agriculture
  • Sustainable food systems
  • Sustainable communities and livelihoods
  • Water policy and governance

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