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ResNet’s mission is to support Canada’s capacity to monitor, model, and manage its working landscapes for the long-term shared health, prosperity and resilience for all Canadians through community-engaged research. My group is integrating communities into models to better account for how ecosystem service flows are captured by human beneficiaries on the landscape.
Landscapes connect communities to the natural capital needed for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services like food, energy, clean water, and regulation of key processes like floods and climate. With support from the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative, we are building a community of researchers from across the social and natural sciences around landscape sustainability, training the next generation of student researchers, and engaging stakeholders locally and nationally through a knowledge-to-action approach linking science, engineering, and decision-making.
Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) are changes in land systems that primarily aim to mitigate climate change. NCS include wide range of practices & actions that sometimes correlate with other things society cares about - like biodiversity conservation or human well-being. To better direct policy and guide action on where and how to implement NCS, and in close collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, this project asks: How do various NCS pathways impact aspects of human well-being, biodiversity, and the environment?
