Faculty research interests

Derek Armitage

• Human dimensions of environmental change
• Adaptive and collaborative governance in coastal and marine systems
• Coastal conservation and social-ecological systems

Christine Barbeau

• First Nations, adaptive capacity, resilience and climate change
• Local and sustainable agriculture in Arctic Indigenous communities

Jennifer Clapp

• Global food security politics and governance
• Food system sustainability
• International political economy of the environment

Andrea Collins

• Gender and environmental governance
• Global land and agricultural governance

Simon Courtenay

• Aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology
• Environmental monitoring
• Cumulative effects assessment

Rob de Loë

• Water and environmental governance
• Water resources management

Brad Fedy

• Wildlife ecology and management
• Landscape genetics

Dustin Garrick

• Water conflict and cooperation
• Social-ecological transitions (economic and environmental history)
• Collective action, property rights, and markets

Robert Gibson

• Environmental assessment law and process reform
• Sustainability assessment principles and applications

Brendon Larson

• Re-conceptualizing conservation, parks and invasive species for the Anthropocene
• Social dimensions of biodiversity conservation and climate change

Dan McCarthy

• Managing complex social-ecological systems in peri-urban and remote First Nations communities

Stephen Murphy

• Ecological restoration, resilience and conservation
• Ecology and policy of parks and protected areas
• Pollination and invasive species ecology

James Nugent

• Social movements, environmental/climate justice, just transition
• Urban political ecology and green economic development
• Community-based/participatory research

Maren Oelbermann

• Sustainable agriculture and climate change resilience
• Soil health, biochar, carbon sequestration

Stephen Quilley

• Environmental politics and non-rational drivers of behaviour
• Maker culture and consumer society
• Social innovation and complex social-ecological systems

Ian Rowlands

• Energy governance and policy
• Sustainable energy strategies

Andrew Trant

• Global change ecology
• Biogeography and forest ecology
• Historical ecology

Sarah Wolfe

• Social-psychological dimensions of water decisions
• Water scarcity, drought and efficiency mechanisms
• Identity, spirituality and ritual in water decisions