{"id":74,"date":"2019-10-21T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/mission\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:35:48","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/about-us\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">About Us: Mission<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>The mission of CERMES is to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in the Caribbean region by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing graduate students with advanced training in policies, mechanisms and techniques for sustainable use and management of natural resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Conducting research that is relevant to natural resource and environmental management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing guidance, consultancy and professional services to regional governments, NGOs and the private sector on environmental matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking the lead in hosting and coordinating regional environmental initiatives and projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Heightening public awareness on matters of environmental importance through outreach activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Building capacity of private-sector and government decision-makers through short courses and training workshops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCERMES has a strong focus on tropical island environmental management since 1985.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us: Mission The mission of CERMES is to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in the Caribbean region by: Providing graduate students with advanced training in policies, mechanisms and techniques for sustainable use and management of natural resources. Conducting research that is relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Providing guidance, consultancy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/about-side-menu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Mission - Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"About Us: Mission The mission of CERMES is to make a significant contribution to sustainable development in the Caribbean region by: Providing graduate students"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-74","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kinsta.cavehill.uwi.edu\/cermes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}