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Robert J Summers

Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta

Research Areas
Collective Action and Cultural Institutions and their Evolution
Environmental Governance/Policy (focused on behaviour and institutions)
Rural Water Supply Issues in Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa
Community Development (social capital, sense of place, effectiveness and efficiency of local institutions) in both developed and developing world applications

Experience

  • –present
    Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning , University of Alberta

Education

  • 2005 
    University of Guelph, Doctorate of Interdisciplinary Rural Studies