From natural resources management to sustainability tourism, our researchers are assessing ways to become more resilient to climate change.
Get to know their areas of expertise.
Advancing seven Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Marta Berbes
- Environmental justice
- Sustainable urban futures
- Resilience thinking and complexity
- Participatory action research and community-led research
- Human dimensions of environmental change
Brent Doberstein
Geography and Environmental Management
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Managing resources and the environment in developing countries
- Understanding and guiding climate change displacement
- Fostering sustainable development
- Building capacity for environmental management
- Implementing disaster risk reduction in developing countries
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
Michael Drescher
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Environmental conservation and natural resource use on private lands
- Social-psychology of pro-environmental behavior
- Climate change and land use effects on temperate and boreal forests
- Urban ecology and ecosystem services
- Conservation and land use policy
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Blair Feltmate
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation
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Providing guidance on adaptation to Federal/Provincial/Municipal governments
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Establishing national climate adaptation standards
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Launching national home flood and community flood protection programs
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Calculating ROI for climate adaptation programs
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Engaging capital markets to incorporate climate adaptation into lines of business
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Calculating mental health impacts of climate change/extreme weather
Luna Khirfan
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Daylighting/de-culverting urban streams for climate change adaptation and urban resilience
- Deploying public engagement tools for community-based climate change adaptation
- Integrating blue-green infrastructure (ecosystems) into urban design for enhanced urban resilience
- Cultural resource management and the preservation of historic urban landscapes
- Urban governance in Middle Eastern cities
Brendon Larson
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
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Understanding the social dimensions of biodiversity conservation (e.g., how people conceptualize nature)
- Evaluating conservation options in the current era of dramatic global change (the so-called Anthropocene), including topics such as invasive species, assisted migration, and novel ecosystems
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
Erin O'Connell
- Disaster Risk Reduction, focusing on vulnerability reduction and resilience building
- Post-disaster recovery programming
- Faith-based environmental perspectives and responses to disasters and climate change
- Climate change adaptation
Michelle Rutty
- Tourism, environment and sustainability
- Understanding the decision-making process and behavioural response of tourists to environmental change
- Assessing climate change risks and opportunities for tourism operators and destinations
- Developing solutions to build a more environmentally sustainable tourism sector
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Vanessa Schweizer
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Long-term planning (developing and learning from scenarios)
- Decision and policy analysis
- Human vulnerability to climate change at agglomerate scales (provincial, national, continental, global)
- National energy transitions
- Systems theory and its application to multi-scale social and technological change
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management, the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Daniel Scott
Geography and Environmental Management
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Calculating the impacts of climate change for tourism operators and destinations
- Engaging tourism industry associations and governments to develop climate change adaptation strategies
- Calculating the impact of the decarbonizing economy for patterns of global tourism demand
- Providing guidance on low carbon and climate-resilient tourism development to governments and business
- Advancing approaches to estimate compounding impacts of climate change and integrated adaptation at community/regional scale
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
Jason Thistlethwaite
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Managing the economic effects of climate change, natural disasters and extreme weather
- Developing governance solutions to climate change risk management
- Assessing the sustainability of property insurance and disaster assistance as a means of reducing vulnerability in the era of climate change
- Visualizing flood risk to improve local adaptation
- Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management
Johanna Wandel
Geography and Environmental Management
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Speed and magnitude and impact of anthropogenically induced climate change
- Human adaptation to climate change at individual to national scales
- Uncertainty, equity, effectiveness of adaptation
- Community-level vulnerability assessment
- Pro-active adaptation planning to reduce anticipated vulnerability
Rosella Caré
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Climate-related financial risks
- Sustainable investing
- Impact investing
- Corporate social and environmental responsibility in the financial sector
- Cross-sector partnerships and Impact bonds
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Peter Crank
Geography and Environmental Management
- Urban climate
- Urban environmental health
- Extreme heat
- Biometeorology
- Can also supervise graduate students in the Faculty of Environment
Chantel Markle
Department of Geography and Environmental Management (GEM)
- Wildlife ecology and management
- Herpetology
- Effects of climate-mediated disturbances on habitat use and function
- Ecohydrology of wildlife habitat
- Habitat restoration and management
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and Geography and Environmental Management
Jessie Ma
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Power systems economics
- Electricity markets
- Demand response
- Distributed energy resources
- Renewable energy
- Energy storage
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development