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Four important program areas guide the Sierra Institute’s research, community-based collaborations, and policy work: Socioeconomic Monitoring and Assessment: We engage in primary, applied, and participatory research to develop important lessons about rural community wellbeing and natural resource uses and jobs. More… Community Forestry and Natural Resources: Community-based forestry and natural resource management work to sustain not only healthy ecosystems, but the communities and workers that depend on those ecosystems. Sustaining healthy communities and ecosystems requires changing the ways we formulate policy and practice science, democracy, and resource management. More… Environmental Justice: Environmental Justice means equal protection under the law to live, work, and play in a safe and clean environment. The Sierra Institute works in rural places to increase the participation of underserved communities and low-income workers and their families in discussions and decision-making that affect their health and livelihoods. More… Rural Community Development and Capacity Building: Rural communities are undergoing dramatic changes as natural resource and agriculture dependent economies and lifeways give way to tourism and service-based economies. These changes have impacts like changing demographics, lack of affordable housing, worker displacement, loss of family jobs, insufficient access to healthcare, and declining school enrollments. The Sierra Institute works to understand these changes and their effects on rural communities, and to build the capacity of communities to respond proactively. More… |
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