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What We Are
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Our research is dedicated to building civic literacy and useful knowledge for integrated decision-making around critical public policy issues, particularly, sustainable community development. We believe we have enough information, we know enough to act now and environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity conservation affect all life.
We are also committed to timely research dissemination, sharing our intellectual capital on the ground, and we are committed to creating novel e-communities of commitment, passion and excellence around sustainable community development. |
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We are committed to timely research dissemination, sharing our intellectual capital on the ground, through the creation of novel e-communities and deliberative dialogue around sustainable community development. |
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Who We Are
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We have recruited a highly interdisciplinary team committed to the timely dissemination of research and ideally knowledge, and offer tools to enhance the decision-making capability of individuals and communities for their sustainable future development. The team’s principal investigator is Ann Dale,Trudeau Fellow,Canada Research Chair, Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University.
 Dr. Dale brings a wealth of public policy expertise to her academic work. Her research involves both place-based and virtual communities, in the belief that both are essential for bridging intellectual and social capital across communities. In addition to her Chair, Dr. Dale is currently leading five research projects on e-Dialogues,sustainable infrastructure,social capital, and most recently, agency and sustainable community development. She chairs the Canadian Consortium for Sustainable Development Research and has published a number of well-known books. Her book, At the edge, received the 2001 Policy Research Initiative’s Outstanding Research Contribution.
Other research sites include:
Governance for Sustainable Development
Gender and Sustainable Development
Dr. Lenore Newman, Professor, Royal Roads University
Dr. Chris Ling, Post Doctoral Scholar |
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