Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.
Rosemary E. Ommer heads the Coasts Under Stress Research project Team. She is the SSHRC grants facilitator and co-director, Institute for Social Ecological Studies, University of Victoria.
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