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Stephen Tyler

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Stephen Tyler’s work is focused on fostering innovation in sustainable land and resource management and climate adaptation through concept development, applied research, capacity building, synthesis and promotion of effective policy and practice.

Dr. Tyler is the founder and president of Adaptive Resource Management Ltd., an interdisciplinary consulting practice specializing in community-oriented natural resource management and adaptation studies, active in B.C. and internationally. His recent work includes community forest management in B.C., adaptive policy frameworks for climate stress in Canada and India (with IISD), and water management in Africa.

His areas of expertise include: institutional and socio-economic issues in natural resource management (conflict management/common pool resources/institutional analysis); climate change and adaptation; poverty reduction and resource use; governance, policy and decentralization in environment and natural resource management; urban environmental management and policy; research management and utilization; applications of interdisciplinary methods.

From 1997-2005, he was Team Leader for the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) program of the International Development Research Centre.

Since the early 1990s, Dr. Tyler’s work has focused on developing concepts, methods and tools for sustainable, community-based resource and environmental management. The program he led at IDRC engaged researchers from a dozen Asian countries in developing and testing these approaches, now being implemented in many countries through reforms to national policies and local governance. Dr. Tyler has worked as a policy analyst, consultant, and researcher on environment, energy and development issues with governments, research institutions and international agencies in Canada, the U.S. and Asia.

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Dr. Tyler is the recipient of a national-level Friendship Prize from the government of the People’s Republic of China for his collaborative work on natural resource management there.

Languages

English, French, Swedish

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