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jwandel@uwaterloo.ca
Johanna joined the GEM in 2008 having worked on previously on high impact climate change adaptation research studies in Canada. Her research examines the critical relationship between humans and the environment and specifically addresses vulnerability and adaptation assessments in relation to climate change.
Key
Areas
of
Graduate
Supervision
Adaptation
to
climate
change,
community-based
vulnerability
assessment.
Recent
Courses
Taught
GEOG
101
Geography
and
Human
Habitat
GEOG
208
Global
Climate
Change
GEOG
393
Approaches
to
Research
in
Human
Geography
GEOG
452
Resource
Management
Project
GEOG
676
Human
Dimensions
of
Climate
Change
Research
Interests
Climate
change
is
already
and
will
continue
to
challenge
both
human
and
natural
systems.
While
we
can
influence
the
speed
and
magnitude
of
anthropogenically
induced
climate
change,
we
cannot
avoid
it
altogether.
Human
responses
to
actual
and
anticipated
climate
change,
collectively
known
as
adaptation,
require
considerations
of
uncertainty,
equity,
effectiveness
and
cost.
My
research
focuses
on
a)
community-level
vulnerability
assessment
in
light
of
climate
change
and
other
stresses
in
various
economic
sectors
and
geographic
contexts;
and
b)
pro-active
adaptation
planning
to
reduce
anticipated
vulnerability.
Recent Publications
- Crick, F., J. Wandel, N. Maclelland and K. Vincent. Forthcoming 2012. Climate change adaptation pathways: insights from case studies in South Africa, Canada and the Pacific Islands. Forthcoming in J. Paulutikoff (ed.), Climate Adapation Futures. Wiley Publishers.
- Wandel, J., B. Smit, J. Ford and T. Pearce. 2011. Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Resource Management in the Canadian Arctic. In Kasperson, Roger E. (ed), Integrating Science and Policy: Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change. London: Earthscan, 291-306.
- Smit, B., G.K. Hovelsrud, J. Wandel and M. Andrachuk. 2010. Introduction to the CAVIAR Project and Framework. In G.K. Hovelsrud and B. Smit (eds.), Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Arctic Regions. Heidelberg: Springer, 1-22.
- Wandel, J. and G. Marchildon. 2010. Institutional Fit and Interplay in a Dryland Agricultural Social-Ecological System in Alberta, Canada. In D. Armitage and R. Plummer (eds.), Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. 179-198.
- Wandel, J., J. Pittman and S. Prado. 2010. Rural Vulnerability to Climate Change in the SSRB Chapter 13 In Sauchyn, D.J., Diaz, H. and Kulshreshtha, S. (editors) The New Normal: The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate. CPRC Press, Regina, SK.
- Wandel, J., Young, G. and Smit, B. 2009. Vulnerability The 2001-2002 Drought: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Alberta’s Special Areas. In G.P. Marchildon (ed), A Dry Oasis: Institutional Adaptation to Climate on the Canadian Plains. Regina: CPRC Press, 211-234.
- Prno, J., J. Wandel, B. Bradshaw, B. Smit and T. Pearce. 2011. Community Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Context of Other Exposure-Sensitivities in Kugluktuk, NU. Polar Research, 30: 7363, DOI: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.7363.
- Young, G., Zavala, H., Wandel, J., Smit, B., Salas, S., Jiminez, E., Fiebig, M., Espinoza, R., Diaz, H. and Cepeda, J. 2010. Vulnerability and adaptation in a dryland community of the Elqui Valley, Chile. Climatic Change, 98: 245-276.Pearce,T., Ford, J., Laidler, G., Smit, B., Duerden, F., Allurut, M., Andrachuk, M., Baryluk, S., Dialla, A., Pootoogoo, E., Goose, A., Ikummaq, T., Joamie, E., Kataoyak, F., Loring, E., Meakin, S., Nickels, S., Shappa, K., Shirley, J. and Wandel, J. 2009. Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research, 28: 10-27.
- Smit, B, I. Burton, R.J.T. Klein and J. Wandel. 2009. An anatomy of adaptation to climate change and variability. In E.L.F. Schipper and I. Burton (eds.), The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate change. London: Earthscan, pp. 63-88.
- Wandel, J., Young, G. and Smit, B. 2009. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: the Case of the 2001-2002 Drought in Alberta’s Special Areas. Prairie Forum. 34(1): 211-234.