Research Activities

Research at the community-based research laboratory focuses on the key themes of: responsible consumption, waste reduction and resource recovery; social inclusion and gender equality; co-management of resources; social/solidarity economy; civic engagement and governance; policy implications; rapid assessments of assets and barriers to sustainable community development; participatory and community-based approaches; and, knowledge mobilization. These themes are presented graphically below, along with the administrative functions of project management. Under-pinning these research activities is a theoretical and practical commitment to community-driven processes. Community-based development is regarded as a site of bottom-up processes of change, and as a scale of epistemological academic enquiry. To read more about the research activities featured in the diagram below, please explore the links on the left to our project pages.

Research Activities at the CBRL, 2009: