SRI Projects Underway

Below is a list of Strategic Research Initiative Projects currently underway:

Project Title
Description
#4194 Benefits & Protection of Local Cultural, Environmental and Heritage Sites The purpose of the project is to convene faculty and other researchers interested in three overarching research questions: 1)  How do you quantify the benefits of cultural and heritage resources and in turn, assure their appreciation and protection? 2) What is the most effective model(s) for a multi-stakeholder processes to be applied across diverse geographic landscape areas in order to promote and ensure environmental, heritage protection? and 3) How can we develop a “Cost-Benefit Analysis” for different approaches towards environmental protection such as land conservation (i.e. land trusts) or environmental advocacy (i.e. Sierra Club or Greenpeace) and their outcomes upon the state of i) biodiversity, ii) carbon sequestration, and iii) habitat in Canada?