Welcome! This website provides details on ongoing research that studies the impacts of climate change on the economic and social well-being of Addington Highlands, Ontario. Addington Highlands is a geographically large township home to 2,500 residents in the Bon Echo Park/Land O’Lakes tourist region of eastern Ontario. Like hundreds of other small communities in Canada, economic and social well-being in Addington Highlands is tied closely to climatic conditions. This community-based research has been created to explore the risks and opportunities climate change presents to residents of Addington Highlands, and to identify how the community can adapt. The project is designed so that the lessons learned may be useful to other, similar communities.

If you are a resident of Addington Highlands or western North Frontenac township, we hope you will use this website to learn more about the project, keep posted of upcoming events in your area, and get in contact with the research team. If you are not from the area, we hope you will still take the time to read about this project.

New!

uOttawa student projects propose ideas for enhancing sustainable development in Addington, North Frontenac and area

In September 2011, 4th-year students in the University of Ottawa's Environmental Studies (ENV) program spent a week in the region reseraching potential opportunities to create ventures, programs and initiatives that might enhance the local economy while respecting local culture and environment. The students interviewed local residents and business operators, and conducted their own independent research. The students worked in 4 separate research teams, and each one came up with its own proposal. The students also shot video footage, which they used to create short videos to summarize their final project proposals.

Here are links to each of the 4 project proposal videos, hosted on YouTube. The students hope the information they contain may be useful to residents and others interested in the region, and potentially inspire people to pursue sustainable development initiatives there. The videos are as follows:

Group 1: North of 7 Mountain bike trails

Group 2: Biomass energy opportunities

Group 3: Organized eco-tours (note this video is in French and English)

Group 4: Sustainabilty research centre

Hope you enjoy the videos. If you have any comments or feedback, please let the research team know.

 

For questions or comments please contact:

Addington Highlands Climate Project
c/o Dr. Robert McLeman
Department of Geography,
University of Ottawa
Simard Hall, Room 031
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
tel: 613-562-5800 x1051
fax: 613-562-5145

 email: rmcleman@uottawa.ca
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