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Director’s Welcome:

Welcome to the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM). At REM, our interdisciplinary approach to learning and research leads us to witness environments and communities screaming out for understanding. We REM researchers and students know that understanding sometimes comes from experiments and sometimes comes in situations where researchers have much less control, such as places of engagement, interaction, memory, and experience.

REM researchers lead, convene and accompany teams of students, practitioners, and community members toward deeper observation, consideration and focus on things that hold our worlds together, although they are often ignored. This includes our climate systems, food systems, systems of transportation and mobility, marine and intertidal systems, forest and soil systems, Indigenous land and territorial systems, chemical systems in the environment, fish and wildlife management systems, to name some of the systems of specialization of REM faculty. When we refer to the subjects of our studies as systems, we shine a light on the ties, dependencies, and interconnections among resource elements and features of the environments in which we also live. We conduct our research and education with a sense of wonder and respect for the multiple perspectives that are needed to grasp the turning points in these systems so we can then work together to shift these in a better direction.

In REM, relationships matter.

REM graduates benefit from the understanding and experience gained in the School and in the nation-leading Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University, the top comprehensive university in Canada, when they go on to launch meaningful careers with impact. REM graduates are sought after in management and field positions in government and industry, advise resource and environmental decision-making and assessment as consultants and advocates, in community-serving roles as planners, facilitators, researchers, and policy designers and regulators. REM students benefit from faculty members making local to global impacts, along with engaged classrooms, labs, study resources and tutorial sections, co-op learning opportunities and internships, student governance opportunities, and experiential and field studies. We care about meaningful land-based learning with Indigenous Peoples and communities and reflect on where our knowledge, relationships and methods come from and how it is made stronger with the inclusion of Indigenous worldviews and perspectives.

I invite you to take a look around our website for more information – and to contact us if you have questions.

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