Current Research by Core Faculty
- Analysis and comparison of public policies on environmental problems.
- International and global governance instutitions, structures and processes
- Role and relevance of non-state actors and public-private partnerships
- Transformation from state-centric to poly-centric governance of public policy making
- Discourse, deliberation and participation
- Adaptive and integrative capacity in environmental governance and management
- Social science risk research in the context of public policy, in particular environmental policy.
- Public policy towards sustainability.
- Inter- and trans-disciplinary research on environmental problems.
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Fish stock assessment Rehabilitation of inland fisheries Aquatic resource management planning Adaptive governance approaches and institutional arrangement in inland fisheries management Application of structured decision making to inland fisheries management
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- International and comparative political economy
- Political ecology
- Development and environmental change (e.g. fisheries)
- Environmental politics and policy
- Market-oriented environmental policy and governance (e.g. eco-certification and eco-labeling
- Global environmental governance
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- Sustainable rural, community and regional development
- Rural resilience
- Community involvement in resource management
- Local and regional governance
- Community adaptation
- Complex adaptive social-ecological systems
- Innovation, green economies and community-corporate relations.
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Current Research by Associated Faculty
- Economics of Food Safety and Supply Chain Management
- Is Newfoundland and Labrador Eating Locally Grown Produce?
- Advances in Traceability System: Consumer Attitudes toward Development of Integration Traceability
- Methods and Quality Control Systems for the Farmed Atlantic Salmon
- Consumer Perceptions toward Foods with Fat Contents
- Applied Econometrics
- Modeling Stochastic Semi-parametric Frontiers using the Generalized Additive Theory
- Comparing Nonparametric to Parametric Interaction Terms in Generalized Additive Models: Production Technology in the Canadian Cable Television Industry
- Non-parametric Estimates of Technology using Generalized Additive Models: The Case of the Canadian Cable Television Industry
- Economics of Biotechnology
- The Transition of the Old Economy Regions to the New Economy: The Role of Biotechnology as a Knowledge-Based Technology
- The Conjectural Variations Approach and the Model of Regional-Intellectual Property Rights: A Case Study for Iran
- International Trade Policy Education
- The Future of International Trade Organizations: Looking Ahead
- Economic Analysis of Industrial Research Projects
- An Economic Analysis of Synthesizing Novel Polymers using Environmentally Friendly Methods
- Economics of Technology
- Producers' Willingness-to-Adopt New Technology: A Case Study of Canola Producers in Manitoba
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- Preparing new edition of Democracy, Diversity, and Good Government
- Preparing new edition of Politics, Power, and the Common Good
- Evaluating Canadian public policy in terms of social, economic, and environmental sustainability
- Key political dilemmas
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- Exploring traditional spiritual views about the human relationship to the earth and their role in reframing our attitude to nature in a post religious world.
- Mindfulness in nature. Developing workshops to help individuals understand their place in the natural world.
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- Sustainable development
- Conceptualizing sustainable development as a principle of social continuity of life on earth.
- Sustainable development through renewable energy: Iceland’s experience with geothermal energy.
- Design of the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) level three sustainability reporting framework.
- Common pool resources management
- Restoring the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery
- Ecological and social consequences of the ITQ in Iceland cod fishery
- A demand-side approach to water management in Western Newfoundland
- Community based natural resource governance
- Identifying environmental values changes in the Humber River Basin, NL
- Global networking for saving world small-scale fisheries
- Environmental policy analysis
- Comments on NL provincial government strategy for climate change
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- The political economy of the international financial system
- Global financial governance: the role and politics of the G8/G20, IMF and the EU.
- International financial crises: the politics and consequence of crisis response.
- International organizations and crisis politics
- The interplay of states, IOs, transnational and domestic actors during crises.
- The effect of crises on the development of global governance.
- The interplay of economic and security policy
- The nature of economic interdependence under globalization and its impact on inter- and intra-state conflict.
- The influence of markets and non-state actors on the formation of foreign and economic policy.
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