Faculty research interests

Derek Armitage

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

Christine Barbeau

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

Jennifer Clapp

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

Andrea Collins

Andrea Collins
  • Gender and environmental governance
  • Global land and agricultural governance

Simon Courtenay

Simon Courtenay wearing a black raincoat and cap near water sorting through seaweed in a bin
  • Aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology
  • Environmental monitoring
  • Cumulative effects assessment

Rob de Loë

Rob de Loe standing next to a camera on a high tripod with forest and grasses in the background.
  • How photography can deepen engagement with environmental challenges

Felicitas Egunyu

Felicitas Egunyu
  • Inclusion and equity in collaborative governance
  • Social impacts assessment
  • Science and policy integration

Brad Fedy

Brad Fedy
  • Wildlife ecology and management
  • Landscape genetics

Dustin Garrick

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

Robert Gibson

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

Leah Jones-Crank

Leah Jones-Crank
  • Food-energy-water nexus governance
  • Collaborative governance for water systems
  • urban sustainability

Brendon Larson

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

Kelsey Leonard

Kelsey Leonard
  • Ocean and water policy
  • Earth law and Indigenous law
  • Ocean/coastal/marine participatory mapping
  • Indigenous climate change policy
  • Indigenous data sovereignty

Chantel Markle

Chantel Markle
  • Effects of climate-mediated disturbances on habitat use and function
  • Climate refugia: Detecting and predicting change
  • Habitat restoration: Enhancing resilience to climate change

Stephen Murphy

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

James Nugent

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

Maren Oelbermann

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

Stephen Quilley

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

Ian Rowlands

Ian Rowlands
  • Energy governance and policy
  • Sustainable energy strategies

Helena Shilomboleni

Helena Shilomboleni
  • Agriculture and food security in the global South
  • Farming systems resilience
  • Scaling digital agriculture innovations

Andrew Trant

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