Purpose:
To promote a better understanding of natural and human heritage for the improvement of planning management, and public policy through research education, and extension work.
Objectives:
Location:
Environment Building 1, Room 351
University of Waterloo
Research:
The Heritage Resources Centre conducts research on a team and individual basis in the broad field of natural and human heritage planning and management. The Centre publishes research reports, as well as conference and workshop proceedings, and biblographies.
Consulting:
The Heritage Resources Centre is actively involved in consulting in the broad field of natural and human heritage planning and management.
Education:
The Heritage Resource Centre offers education in the broad field of natural and human heritage planning and management. In our educational efforts, the Centre uses a variey of informal and formal methods to achieve mutual learning. Our efforts tend to be process oriented--interactive and adaptive.
The Centre prepares an annual report, as well as a brochure that list upcoming seminars and lectures. Generally 4 - 8 seminars or workshops are offered each year ( See Workshops ). Conferences and public lectures are held both on and off campus, often in conjunction with other organizations.
Our workshops and seminars are aimed at professionals and citizens who strive to understand and use heritage as an approach to improving planning and managing of economic, cultural, and natural changes. The purpose of the program is to encourage learning, communication, and networking among the array of public and private groups and individuals interested in heritage planning and management in the broad dynamic sense of land and life coming to us from the past.
Established:
1980
Heritage Resources Centre Five-Year Review Report:
