The POLIS Project on Ecological Governance is a centre for research and action established in 2000 by the Eco-Research Chair of Environmental Law and Policy at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). POLIS is a place where academic and community researchers work with others to dismantle the notion of the environment as merely another sector, and to make ecological thinking and practice a core value and practice in all aspects of society. Among the many research centres investigating and promoting sustainability worldwide, POLIS is unique in its focus on transdisciplinary research, education and advocacy oriented to defining and cultivating ecological governance.
POLIS research, policy practice, education and action are rooted in place and seek to understand and tackle several pressing questions:
- What does governance shaped by the principles of ecological sustainability look like?
- How do we govern ourselves in ways that, at all levels, are ecologically sustainable?
- How do we implement models of ecological governance at local and global levels?
