Faculty profile
Melanie Wiber
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Read how they describe their research on their University of New Brunswick profile.
Latest funding
- $485,625
An ethnographic study of risk assessment in coastal management: resource sustainability and community resilience
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
- $5,290,000
NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network / Réseau canadien de recherche sur la pêche du CRSNG
NSERC · 2009 · Co-investigator
- $60,004
Facilitating coastal and oceans management: southwest New Brunswick
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
An ethnographic study of risk assessment in coastal management: resource sustainability and community resilience
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie G.
Keywords: risk assessment; local ecological knowledge; fisheries management
NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network / Réseau canadien de recherche sur la pêche du CRSNG
Principal investigators: Stephenson, Robert
Facilitating coastal and oceans management: southwest New Brunswick
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie G.
Keywords: oceans and coastal policy; environmental policy; integrated coastal management
The Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN): a proposal for DFO-SSHRC joint funding 2006-2008
Keywords: Canada's oceans; ocean management; coastal management; social science; integration of social and natural science; oceans networking; oceans research capacity; sustainable use; interdisciplinary forum for communication
Learning Communities as a Tool in Natural Resource Management
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie G.
Keywords: learning communities; natural resource management; governance, community-based; coastal
Coastal CURA: community-based governance of coastal resources: social, economic and policy linkages in the Canadian Maritimes
Keywords: community-based management; integrated management; coastal management; natural resource management; First Nations; coastal communities; fishing organizations; policy; capacity-building; livelihoods; cross-scale linkages; evaluation; participatory research
Law, Plural Society and Social Cohesion in the 21st Century, XIVth International Congress of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism (CFLLP)
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie G.
Keywords: law and society; legal pluralism; social cohesion; social diversity; natural resource management
Developing an interdisciplinary participatory research methodology to further community-based resource management
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie
Keywords: collaborative research; community based management; fisheries; traditional ecological knowledge
Promoting social cohesion through community-based resource management: the Canadian Maritimes Fisheries
Principal investigators: Wiber, Melanie
Keywords: Socio-cultural anthropology; Southeast Asia; Canadian Maritimes; comparative law and property studies; rural economics; gender; fisheries
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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