Category Archives: Planning

2015 CASIOPA Conference on Healthy Parks, Healthy People (HPHP) – Summary

By casiopa | Published: May 13, 2015

Summary of the 2015 CASIOPA Conference on Healthy Parks, Healthy People On Wednesday May 6 & Thursday May 7 2015, the first organized HPHP conference was held at the University of Waterloo Federation Hall Conference Centre (the final agenda is here: 2015-casiopa-healthy-parks-and-healthy-people-agenda-28-4-15). Healthy Parks, Healthy People” is a research agenda but most importantly it is [...]

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2015 CASIOPA AGM on Managing for Ecological Connectivity – Summary

By casiopa | Published: April 13, 2015

The 2015 CASIOPA Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday April 8 and Thursday April 9 at The University of Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment at Huntsville ON Our theme was Managing for Ecological Connectivity (download the final program in pdf: 2015-CASIOPA-AGM-97) We were pleased to have our special guests leading us on day [...]

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2014 CASIOPA & University of Waterloo ERS welcomes Parks Canada CEO Alan Latourelle

By casiopa | Published: January 7, 2015

Alan Latourelle made a return visit with CASIOPA just before everyone decamped to the IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney AUS. As CEO of Parks Canada, Alan has been a strong advocate for research and community engagement through fora like CASIOPA and it was great to host him. Alan’s visit was part of a class [...]

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2013 CASIOPA AGM on Putting Conservation Science into Practice

By casiopa | Published: April 22, 2013

Wednesday April 17, 2013 & Thursday April 18, 2013 saw over 100 people join us at the wonderful University of Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment at Huntsville for the Annual General Meeting of CASIOPA. We combined this with an excellent workshop as well! The theme was “Putting Conservation Science into Practice”. Chris Lemieux (of [...]

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2013 CASIOPA Workshop on Transforming Visitor Management

By casiopa | Published: February 10, 2013

CASIOPA 2013 Workshop Summary Transforming Visitor Management – Improving the Understanding of Protected Area Clientele with Declining Resources January 31 & February 1 2013- Crowne Plaza Toronto Airport Hotel 140 people gathered in Toronto for a high profile event on visitor management. Thanks to OMNR’s Will Wistowsky and Adam Gryck, we had a spellbinding group [...]

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2012 CASIOPA Supports the Sources of Knowledge Forum

By casiopa | Published: May 20, 2012

In 2012, CASIOPA provided some leveraged funding and participated in their Forum on Climate Change climate_change_program_sok_2012. CASIOPA Chair Stephen Murphy presented on behalf of CASIOPA on the subject of Sustainability: Building Resilience to Climate Change. murphy 2012 SOK Attending via CASIOPA’s committment to student involvement and networking were Kelly Moores and Hilary Roulston – then [...]

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2010 CASIOPA Workshop on Economic Valuation of Protected Areas

By casiopa | Published: December 30, 2010

CASIOPA Workshop on Economic Valuation of Protected Areas Friday March 26 2010 at OMNR HQ in Peterborough ON Following up from the 2009 CASIOPA webinar on general Human Dimensions, this workshop focused on the various techniques that have been used to yield economic valuations for natural or protected areas. Will WIstowsky of OMNR was the [...]

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2005 PRFO Proceedings | Protected Areas and Species and Ecosystems at Risk: Research and Planning Challenges

By casiopa | Published: June 6, 2010

Proceedings of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO) and Carolinian Canada Coalition (CCC) Annual General Meeting | University of Guelph, May 5-7, 2005

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