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Barry Smit

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University Professor EmeritusDepartment of Geography, Environment and GeomaticsUniversity of Guelph

Barry Smit

University Professor Emeritus

Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics

College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 14 research grants (12 SSHRC, 1 NSERC, 1 CFI), most recently in 2013.

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Latest funding

Impact Award Gold Medal
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$100,000
ArcticNet
NSERC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$34,013,500
Societal adaptations to environmental changes a meta-analysis of resource-dependent communities
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$124,925

All 17 grants and awards

Impact Award Gold Medal

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: global change; environment; climate; society; impacts; adaptation

$100,000

ArcticNet

Co-investigatorNSERC2011Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Fortier, Louis

$34,013,500

Societal adaptations to environmental changes a meta-analysis of resource-dependent communities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: vulnerability; adaptation; climate change; adaptive capacity; coastal communities; Canada; Pacific; resource-dependent; meta-analysis

$124,925

Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry

Keywords: global change, climate, risk management, adaptation, development, environment, assessment, vulnerability

$684,479

CANPAC (Climate Adaptation Network-Pacific And Canada)

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: adaptation; climate change; Arctic; coastal communities; Pacific Island States; interdisciplinary integration; comparative meta-analysis; knowledge; policy

$30,000

Community adaptation and vulnerability in arctic regions

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Government of Canada's Program for International Polar Year

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry

$10,000

Vulnerability of communities to environmental changes: adaptive capacity and climate change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: vulnerability; adaptive capacity; climate change; adaptation

$111,736

Societal adaptation to environmental change in Inuvialuit communities: meeting the needs of northern residents

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Northern Research Development Program

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: Inuvialuit; traditional knowledge; vulnerability; adaptive capacity; environmental change

$40,000

Vulnerability of resource-based communities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: vulnerability integration methodology

$25,000

Community vulnerability to environmental change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Smit, Barry E.

Keywords: vulnerability; climatic variability; adaptive capacity; rural; developing countries; climate change

$159,550

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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