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Ocean

SUSTAINABILITY

Ensuring infrastructure designs contribute to full spectrum sustainability for coastal communities

In a context of rapid climate, ocean, and social-ecological change, a key challenge is to learn from different coastal communities, from groups of rights holders and stakeholders, from citizens, and to support the development of their capacity in strengthening and designing infrastructures for navigating through change. Sustainability Research Work Packages are based on principles of co-producing knowledge, with aims to learn from and support peoples of Atlantic Canada in creating sustainable coastal infrastructures. These WPs are working with Indigenous groups, industry organizations, and governance actors to strengthen, develop, and design coastal community infrastructure that can better navigate future change.

We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.

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To learn more about Memorial University's Strategic Framework for Indigenization please visit the Office of Indigenous Affairs.

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Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures 

is administered in partnership by the St. John’s and Grenfell Campuses of Memorial University 

Research funding was provided by the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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