Projects & Research

How can communities, resource user organizations and governments together meet the capacity needs and awareness to carry out coastal management? And at what scale should management take place – at the level of the community, of a stretch of coastline, of a province or of the whole Maritimes? When should management be bottom-up (community-led) and when government-led?

The Coastal CURA is exploring these crucial questions through a careful review of experiences in the past, combined with innovative participatory research on a set of current management endeavours taking place across the Maritimes. We are applying three key strategies – research, capacity-building, and knowledge mobilization – to each of following three key areas:

• Reflection and Evaluation Methods: Learning from Experience
• Integrated Coastal Management Initiatives: Iterative Learning in the Present
• Organizational and Institutional Capacity: Building for the Future