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| Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University is a strong, dynamic and innovative Department that prides itself as a consistent provider of high quality scholarly activity, programs and courses. At the undergraduate level we offer nine programs that cover a broad spectrum of Geography. We offer BA and BSc degrees at both the Honours and General levels as well as combined programs. Our newest undergraduate program is the Geography and Geomatics degree. At the graduate level, we offer MA, MES, MSc and PhD degrees in four fields of specialization: Environmental and Resource Management, Earth Surface Processes, Human, and Geomatics. The mission statement of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies stresses its commitment to: continuing to provide a dynamic undergraduate program covering a full range of knowledge, techniques and applications in geography and environmental studies; providing an array of stimulating undergraduate courses as a service to students from other disciplines; a graduate program emphasizing independent knowledge generation; faculty members engaged in developing new knowledge, innovative technical and educational approaches, with national and international horizons and fields of activity. |
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Laurier researchers use backyard rinks to track climate change (News Release - Jan 08) |
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Establishing long-‐term forestry tenure in the Northwest Territories - Tom Lakusta (Headline - Nov 05) |
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Laurier’s W. Garfield Weston Fellow Andrew Medeiros to research Arctic lakes (Headline - Sep 04) |
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Laurier PhD student wins Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research (Campus Update - Jun 07) |
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Laurier enters $2-million environmental science research partnership with NWT (News Release - May 26) |
People at Laurier
The focus of Dr. Scott Slocombe's research is the challenge of
managing diverse human activities in large regions while
fostering commmunity and environmental sustainability. In
studying this over the last 20 years recurring themes have been
complexity and systems approaches, protected areas, ecosystem
health and integrity, ecosystem-based management, and
environmental planning and policy. Other areas of long-standing
interest include environmental education, environmental thought,
and the uses and design of information technology. The main
field sites for me and my students include the St. Elias region
of Yukon, Alaska, and BC; the Canadian Rockies, coastal BC, the
Australian Alps, and the Grand River Basin, Ontario.
Scott Slocombe
Professor,
Geography & Environmental Studies
