Dr Manuel joined Dalhousie’s School of Planning in 2001 after teaching environmental planning at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 1988. A wetlands ecologist and geographer by training, her research interests have broadened to include concerns about community health and youth in the urban environment.

Active in the local community, she has been on the board of directors of organizations like the Captain William Spry Community Centre, the MacIntosh Run Watershed Association, the Eastern Chebucto Peninsula Community Planning Working Group, and the Williams Lake Conservation Society. She also served on the Halifax Harbour Solutions Advisory Committee and is on the McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park Advisory Committee.

Dr Manuel’s teaching assignments include Landscape Analysis, Landscape Ecology, Planning Methods, and occupation in the built environment. She is cross-appointed to the School of Occupational Therapy.

Selected publications:

Cultural perceptions of small urban wetlands: cases from the Halifax Regional Municipality. Wetlands 23(4): 921-40 (2003)

Occupied with ponds: exploring the meaning, bewaring the loss for kids and communities of nature’s small spaces. Journal of Occupational Science 10(1): 31-39 (2003)

Emms, N. and P. Manuel. Integrating wetlands into the urban environment. Plan Canada 40(5): 31-32 (2000)

Grant, J. and P. Manuel. Using a peer resource model in planning education. Journal of Planning Education and Research 15: 51-57 (1996)

Grant, J., P. Manuel and D. Joudrey. A framework for planning sustainable residential landscapes. Journal of the American Planning Association 62: 331-44

Revised 15 March 2006