This research project is a continuation from the first five-year Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development (CRC) and is based on what we have learned from the first five years. Place matters deeply to Canadians, but we lack the ability to see the aggregate impacts of the scale of our activities, the meaning of limits and how to sustain critical biodiversity in our communities. How do communities become more vital in all these aspects?
Just published, two new case studies, one on QUEST, an emerging new governance model for integreted energy systems in Canada and The Cooperators, a Canadian insurance cooperative. Both of these cases are new emerging sustainable models of governing and doing business.
My latest presentation given at Royal Roads University on November 3rd touched on the work we have done over the last 5 years and a look into the future plans for the Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Community Development.
Click here to view the entire presentation.
Find the preliminary environmental scan of British Columbia's Municipalities and First Nations posted under the Climate Change project's Resource section
The goals of this Canadian University Research Alliance (CURA) project are to identify and investigate innovative municipal approaches to provincial climate policy and document best practices through selected detailed case studies, and secondly, to spur cross scale knowledge mobilization between communities in order to bootstrap innovation diffusion.
Download the Community Research Connections Newsletters here:
No. 7: December 2009
No. 5: February 2008
No. 4: November 2007
No. 3: October 2007
No. 2: June 2007
Community-Based Water Monitoring: Bridging Citizens and Decision Makers by Lee-Anne Walker and Chris Strashok
Urban Biodiversity: Building Community Capacity for Ecological Restoration by Nathalie Dechaine and Chris Strashok
We are partnering with Vijaya Lakshmi Koneru, Vice President of Development Alternatives, a non-profit based in India.
