Building Capital - James Tansey Bio

Panelists - James Tansey
	James Tansey is a Research Associate working on the Strategies component of the Georgia Basin Futures Project at the Sustainable Development Research Institute, University of British Columbia. He is currently working on a social capital project focused on resource dependent communities on Vancouver Island.
James completed his PhD with the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, UK. His PhD thesis was a theoretical and empirical study of the concept of risk focusing on the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas. Case study research involved extensive fieldwork in Lithuania to explore the effects of the break up of the Soviet Union on the 'threats landscapes' of rural inhabitants. James has also worked with the energy sector in the UK and in particular the politically charged issue of the Brent Spar decommissioning which brought Shell and Greenpeace into conflict.
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