Development and environment
Geography professors who conduct research in this area include:
- Jean Andrey - Road safety in Canada,
Telecommuting, Winter road maintenance, Climate change impacts, adaptation
and mitigation in the transport sector
- Judith Cukier - Tourism and development,
Gender and tourism, Tourism employment and entrepreneurship, marine tourism,
Southeast Asia, Caribbean
- Peter Deadman - Natural resources
management, Common pool resources, Modeling and simulation, Geographic
information systems
- Brent Doberstein - Resource
and environmental management in developing countries
- Christipher Fletcher - Using numerical models to investigate large-scale climate processes and climate change
- Bruce Mitchell - Integrated
resource management, Sustainable development in Indonesia, Governance
in an urbanizing river basin, Rural communities
- Clare Mitchell - Population growth,
counterurbanization and heritage tourism within Canada's non-metropolitan
settlements
- Sanjay Nepal -
Exploring the links between biodiversity conservation and tourism, particularly in areas of resolving conflicts between wildlife agencies and local communities, tourism impacts on the environment (in parks and protected areas, and remote communities), community participation, and local level development through tourism. Current research focus is in Nepal, Thailand and Western Canada.
- Paul Parker - Global coal
trade, Japanese trade and investment networks, Environmental change and
local economic development
- Steffanie Scott - International
and rural development, agro-food systems sustainability, land policy,
poverty and inequality, gender and ethnicity, participatory methodologies,
Asia and Latin America
- Daniel Scott- Climate change impacts
and adaptation, in particular the effects of climate change on tourism
and recreation; protected areas and biodiversity conservation
- Tara Vinodrai - Economic geography; urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change
- Johanna Wandel - Human dimensions of global change; adaptation to climate change; vulnerability; drought management; agriculture and climate change.
A list of graduate student research provides an idea of the types of projects our students undertake.
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