Overview
To guide its project activities the Center has identified several areas of priority interest:
- Ideas of Humans and Nature—Projects investigating the worldviews that, for better or worse, influence how we perceive and relate to the natural world.
- Regional Cultures of Conservation—Projects exploring case-based ethical studies of urban and rural development with an eye to our responsibilities to the future. Education and outreach promoting the critical intellectual capital necessary for effective, long-term conservation efforts.
- North American Global Responsibilities: Cosmopolitan Regionalism—Projects and conferences that critically engage the global environmental and social responsibilities of North America, both at home and to other regions of the world.
- Public Health, Planning, and Ecology—Projects exploring the connections among healthy people, healthy ecosystems, and healthy communities. Focuses not only on the clearly established link between environment pollution and human health, but also the implications that ecosystemic theory and perspectives have for our understanding of public health policy and programs.