CHS Projects

CURRENT CHS RESEARCH & CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECTS

• Learning from Christchurch: Technical Decisions and Societal Consequences in Post-Earthquake Recovery : 2011-2013
• Canadian Seismic Risk Network : 2008-2013
• Health & Community Design Lab
• Climate Justice Project
• Developing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Provincial Legislative Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in BC
• Evaluating the Quality of Official Community Plans in Southern British Columbia: Are Municipalities Prepared to Promote Sustainable Development Patterns
• Habitat Exchange
• Informality Governance in Peri-Urban SE Asia
• NEWPATH: Built Environment Influences on Diet, Physical Activity, and Obesity: A Transdisciplinary Approach
• Systems Under Stress: An Investigation of Community Resilience to Natural Disasters

RECENT PROJECTS

• Analyzing Infrastructures for Disaster-Resilient Communities : 2007-2010
• EMERGENCE: Education and Mapping of Employment Relocation in a Global Economy in the New Communications Environment
• Government Responses to Poverty and Income Inequality and their Effects on Children and Families
• Mitigation of Extreme Event Risk: The Case of Electric Power
• Multi-level Governance in Canada: the Vancouver Essay
• New Public Consortia for Metropolitan Governance, Brazil (NPC Project)
• Social Dynamics of Economic Performance: Innovation and Creativity in City-Regions
• Assessing Community-Scale Disruption and Restoration of Basic Needs in Post-Earthquake Haiti : 2008-2011 

PAST PROJECTS

• Asian Urban Research Network : 1991-1998
• Community Based Watershed Management in Santo André, S.P., Brazil : 1998-2002
• Education for Democratic Planning in Sri Lanka : 1997-2002
• Gender and Development Network : 1993-1998
• Hanoi Authority for Planning and Investment : 1997-1999
• Localized Poverty Reduction in Vietnam : 1998-2003
• Neighbourhood Planning in Quanzhou, Fujian, China : 1999-2000
• Project for Promoting Participatory Budgeting in Canada: Building Community Capacity for Deliberative Local Governance in the Greater Vancouver Region : 2004
• Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, China : 1998-2002
• The role of Coastal Ecosystem Degradation in Tsunami Damage : 2005-2006