The department seeks to contribute new knowledge, understanding, and solutions to the challenges facing society. These contributions - disciplinary and interdisciplinary - range from the local and humanistic to the international and biophysical.
Participatory Sustainable Waste Management (PSWM) is an interdisciplinary collaboration between UVic and Universitário Fundação Santo André, Brazil undertaking innovative projects dedicated to more sustainable lifestyles suited to the needs and wants of current and future generations.
PSWM presents a viable option to make better use of the world's resources, including exploring opportunities to generate income and improve the quality of life for informal recyclers, while promoting environmental sustainability and inclusive public policies.
The New Emerging Team for Health in Rural and Northern British Columbia (NETHRN-BC) is a multidisciplinary research program based at five BC universities (University of Victoria, University of Northern BC, Thompson Rivers University, Simon Fraser University, and University of British Columbia).
With investigators in epidemiology, geography, psychology, sociology, and statistics, the program will develop research capacity in the social dimensions of rural, remote, and northern health in BC in order to improve the health of residents living in these regions of the province.
Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre (W-CIRC) is the result of an agreement in 2002 between the UVic Department of Geography and the National Water Research Institute (NWRI) of Environment Canada.
Research at the centre focuses on impacts of climate change on, for example, floods and droughts, groundwater systems, river and lake ice, forest hydrology, lake heat and energy budgets of lakes, alpine and reservoir water supplies, and aquatic ecology.
Also affiliated with the centre are NWRI scientists and research technicians located at the National Hydrology Research Centre (NHRC) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW) in Burlington, Ontario.
The University of Victoria Coastal Aquaculture Research and Training (CART) Network comprises a multidisciplinary team of scientists that form an intra-university collaborative network to address research and training initiatives associated with coastal aquaculture.
Working on both temperate and tropical region programs, the CART 'network' also extends to the working relationships we have developed with other institutions, both within Canada and abroad.
