Our Projects

CURRENT CHS Research & Capacity Building Projects

• Active Transportation Lab Projects


• 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

Previous Projects

• Analyzing Infrastructures for Disaster-Resilient Communities
• Asian Urban Research Network
• Community Based Watershed Management in Santo André, S.P., Brazil
• Education for Democratic Planning in Sri Lanka
• EMERGENCE: Education and Mapping of Employment Relocation in a Global Economy in the New Communications Environment
• Gender and Development Network
• Government Responses to Poverty and Income Inequality and their Effects on Children and Families
• Hanoi Authority for Planning and Investment
• Localized Poverty Reduction in Vietnam
• 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)
• Neighbourhood Planning in Quanzhou, Fujian, China
• Project for Promoting Participatory Budgeting in Canada: Building Community Capacity for Deliberative Local Governance in the Greater Vancouver Region
• Social dynamics of economic performance: Innovation and creativity in city-regions
• Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Beijing-Tianjin Region, China
• The role of Coastal Ecosystem Degradation in Tsunami Damage