A group of researchers and practitioners exploring experiences and impacts of climate-related solastalgia in the Lake Superior watersheds of Ontario, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the native nations that share their geographies.
The People and Places Work Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers and scholars whose collaborations integrate natural and social sciences in resource management. Facilitated by the Lake Superior Reserve, the work group includes members from universities in the Twin Ports region, as well as state and federal researchers. Members collaborate on environment-human research with an emphasis on ecosystem services.
The 5-year Equitable Evaluation Initiative seeks to shift the evaluation paradigm so that it becomes a tool for and of equity for those that have placed equity as core to their work. Over the next five years (2018-2022), we intend to build an infrastructure that supports and advances:
The imperative of putting EE principles into practice
Shared inquiry: learning and sharing insights over "right" answers or check-box execution
Cross-sector learning and shared leadership
Field building and mutually beneficial support to advance shared goals