Research Team
Dr. Ann Dale, Principal Investigator,
Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development,
School of Environment and Sustainability,
Royal Roads University.
Ann Dale, principal investigator, is a Professor at Royal Roads University, where she leads several research projects, including e-Dialogues for Sustainable Development and is active in the environmental movement.
Kevin Hanna is Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, where he teaches environment and resource policy, impact assessment, and land use planning. His recent work addresses issues in land use planning, urban competitiveness and quality of space, and the role of planning in the economic transition of resource-based communities.
Dr. Chris Ling is a recent post-doctoral émigré from England, now living in Victoria, British Columbia. His background is in Environmental Sciences which he read at Southampton University. A short stint in consultancy led to seven years in Manchester working on a number of landscape, sustainability and quality of life capital orientated research projects. During this time he also achieved an M.Sc in Pollution and Environmental control and a PhD in Planning and Landscape examining quality of life capital in post-industrial landscapes. His main areas of research interest are landscape multifunctionality, quality of life capital, urban fringe and post-industrial landscapes and sustainability.
Ken Lyotier has lived and worked in the Downtown Eastside sine the late 1970s, and is the founding Executive Director of United We Can, a social business enterprise and three other business lines. A community leader, Ken has advised the city of Vancouver and many other groups on social issues, such as medical and housing services and poverty alleviation in Vancouver's inner-City.
Jennie Sparkes had held numerous position in Parks Canada, starting as a Park Warden at Pukaskwa National Park. She currently works as a social science researcher examining the human dimension of ecosystem based management. She is a graduate of the Royal Roads' MEM program and is currently pursuing her PhD in Geography at the University of Victoria.
