Fostering a collaborative, interdisciplinary, science-based approach to Canada’s First National Pollinator Strategy

How does the socio-political landscape shape our natural one? This is the driving question for Dr. Rachel Nalepa, a Postdoctoral Visitor with Professor Sheila R. Colla’s Native Pollinator Research Lab. As a human geographer grounded in the field of political ecology, she examines environmental issues that emerge in rural spaces through the lens of the

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Contested Countryside: Land use conflicts in Southern Ontario

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) The project examines the complex environmental, political, social and economic relations concerning controversies that implicate rural and urban regions and communities. It focuses on two dimensions of complexity: (1) evolving rural-urban relations through conflicts over land use and/or local development initiatives; and (2) role played by knowledge-based authority

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