Understanding and Sustaining the Environment & Energy Systems
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Human well-being is dependent upon healthy environments, understanding the impact of human activities upon ecosystems, the adoption and development of renewable energy sources and sustainable energy systems, and the implementation of informed energy and environmental policy.
Queen’s researchers are providing new insights into global climate change, human interactions, urbanization, and industrial activity, and Queen’s is emerging as a national leader in connecting this research to policy-making, provincially and nationally.
Themes in this area include:
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The workplace environment and occupational health |
Spotlight: Julian Barling (Business), FRSC Centres/Institutes include: The Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace |
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The socio-cultural, legal, and economic aspects of healthy environments |
See: School of Environmental Studies |
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The biology, geography, and policy of ecosystem management |
Spotlight: Peter Harrison (Policy Studies), Chair of the international Polar Year 2012 Spotlight: John Smol (Biology), Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change See also: Queen's in the Artic |
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Energy research |
Spotlight: Praveen Jain (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and Director of Queen's Centre for Energy and Power Electronics Research (ePOWER) |
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A sustainable water supply |
Spotlight: David McDonald (Global Development Studies), co-leader of the Municipal Services Project |
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Developing environmentally sustainable technologies |
Spotlight: Pascal Champagne (Civil Engineering) |