Suzuette Soomai received the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS) 2012 Graduate Student Writing Prize for a paper entitled “The Use and Influence of Scientific Information in Environmental Policy Making: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia”. The paper will be published in the upcoming edition of the NSIS Proceedings. Pictured at left is Suzuette receiving […]
Public Policy & Decision-Making
Participation in the Planet Under Pressure Conference in March 2012
The EIUI participated in the Planet Under Pressure Conference, 26-29 March 2012, London, UK. This conference is a precursor meeting to the upcoming 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Suzuette Soomai presented a poster: Understanding the interaction between marine information production and policy-making processes.“
Participation in the International Studies Association Annual Conference in April 2012
Elizabeth De Santo will present two papers at the upcoming International Studies Association Annual Conference in San Diego, 1-4 April, 2012: (1) “Towards an understanding of the role of marine environmental information in policy-making addressing crises in ocean health” and (2) “Linking biology, technology and society: the need for and difficulty of an interdisciplinary approach to scenario-building.”
EIUI Releases a Report of an Initial Study of the Awareness and Use of The 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report
The EIUI research initiative has concluded a study in collaboration with the Government of Nova Scotia that assessed the initial use and influence of the State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report, released in December 2009. Using a combination of interviews and questionnaires, web analytics, media scans and citation analysis, the study examined the effectiveness of the […]
Coastal Zone Canada 2010 – Healthy Oceans – Strong Coastal Communities, Charlottetown, 25-29 July 2010
The EIUI research team was represented at the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 conference in Charlottetown by Dr. Bertrum MacDonald who participated in the workshop “Information Management for Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management” on Tuesday, 27 July. In addition, the research team presented the poster “From Science to Policy Making: Investigating the Use and Influence of Marine Environmental […]
Workshop on CRIS, CERIF and Institutional Repositories, National Research Council Rome, 10-11 May 2010
At the European workshop on “Maximizing the Benefit of Research Information for Researchers, Research Managers, Entrepreneurs and the Public,” Bertrum MacDonald gave the presentation (co-authored with Peter Wells), “Intergovernmental Organizations and the Challenge of Document Description and Repositories.” This invitation-only workshop was organized by euroCRIS, a professional association on Current Research Information Systems, and custodian […]