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Geography Stream |
Fondahl, Gail
Email: fondahlg@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/fondahl/
Dr. Fondahl¹s research focuses on cultural and legal geographies of indigenous land rights and claims, and land-based traditional activities. She has worked extensively in the Russian North on these topics. Gail also is interested in cultural, legal and historical geographies of First Nations in northern British Columbia.
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Halseth, Greg
Email: halseth@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/halseth/
Greg Halseth is the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies at UNBC. He has research interests in social geography, community economic development, and community change and conflict. His current research focuses on household and community strategies for coping with economic change in BC's resource-based towns.
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Hanlon, Neil
Email: hanlon@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/hanlon/
Dr. Hanlon's does research in health geography, focusing particularly on the implications of provincial health policy reform on communities and regions. He is also interested in issues of health care utilization and how one's geographical location can influence issues of access and patterning of care. His research is primarily concerned with health and health care issues in rural and remote settings.
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Meletis, Zoë
Email: meletis@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty.html#ZoeMeletis
Zoe's work to date has focused on tourism and ecotourism development, local perceptions of environment and place, consumption (the politics of; the impacts of; alternative forms of), international development and conservation, and justice issues related to inadequate planning and environmental management.
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Nolin, Catherine
Email: nolin@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/nolin/
Dr. Nolin's current research project explores domestic and international influences shaping the migration and settlement of Central American refugees and immigrants in Canada as well as the maintenance of ties with their countries of origin. Other research interests include transnational migration, Guatemala, migrant insecurity on the Guatemala-Mexico border, immigrant and refugee experiences in British Columbia, social justice and gender issues. Dr. Nolin earned her PhD from Queen's University.
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Sui, Jueyi
Email: sui@unbc.ca
Dr. Sui’s main research interests lie in water resources and environmental engineering. Jeuyi has expertise in cold region hydraulics and hydrology (river ice hydraulics and snow hydrology) and fluvial hydraulics.
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Wheate, Roger
Email: wheate@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/wheate/
Dr. Wheate's interests cover the application of remote sensing and GIS across the spectrum of NRES (Natural Resource and Environmental Studies) faculty areas. His main focus lies in the integration of the geomatic sciences, cartographic output, feature extraction and terrain visualisation; special interests include mountain cartography / and glacier mapping using remote sensing.
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Env. Studies Stream |
Bogdanski, Bryan
Email: bogdans@unbc.ca
Bryan's research interests include forest economics, forest management, and forest business.
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Booth, Annie
Email: annie@unbc.ca
Annie received a doctorate in environmental ethics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Masters in environmental policy at York University. Her research interests included Environmental and Natural Resources Policy (Domestic and International); Environmental Philosophy and Ethics; Native American/First Nations Worldviews; Women and Environments; Sustainable Development and Communities; Community Based Resource Management; Environmental Education.
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Connell, David
Email: connell@unbc.ca
WWW: www.unbc.ca/planning
Dr. Connell is interested in the 'pursuit of community,' with a particular focus upon 'intentional communities' (e.g., co-housing, eco-villages, and communal societies). David is currently researching the capacity of and potential for local food systems in central interior British Columbia. This includes the culture of food, food security, industry structure, and land use planning. His work draws upon the social theories of Niklas Luhmann.
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Curry, John
Email: curryj@unbc.ca
Dr. John Curry holds a PhD from the School of Community and Regional Planning (UBC), and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Planning Institute of British Columbia. He is interested in sustainable communities; more specifically, the physical planning of communities in a northern context, the restructuring of community economies to incorporate concepts of sustainability, and the institutional structures that impede change towards sustainability.
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Deo, Balbinder
Email: deob@unbc.ca
The main thrust of Dr. Deo’s research work with industrial organizations is to search the technical and managerial causes of low productivity in manufacturing as well as in service operations. His hands-on experience with industrial organizations enables him to understand a wide variety of production systems, such as: assembly line; ore mining and processing; oil seeds processing; vegetative oil extraction and processing; job-shop type manufacturing systems, and project type work systems.
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Fondahl, Gail
Email: fondahlg@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/geography/faculty/fondahl/
Dr. Fondahl¹s research focuses on cultural and legal geographies of indigenous land rights and claims, and land-based traditional activities. She has worked extensively in the Russian North on these topics. Gail also is interested in cultural, legal and historical geographies of First Nations in northern British Columbia.
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Lavallee, Loraine
Email: lavallel@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/psychology/faculty.html
Dr. Loraine Lavallee has an interdisciplinary background having completed a BA in history, a Ph.D. in social psychology, and a postdoctoral fellowship in the faculty of forestry at UBC. Her research work has focused on social components of resource use including investigating factors that influence (1) peoples’ willingness to conserve natural resources, (2) inter-group conflict over forestry, and (3) British Columbian’s values associated with forests. She also conducts research in the area of psychological health and well-being.
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Seidel, Andrew
Email: seidel@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/planning/faculty.html
Andrew's research interests include the creation of sustainable environments at personal and community levels. Dr. Seidel has recently completed the book ""Social Effects of the Building Environment.” Andrew is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research.
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Sui, Jueyi
Email: sui@unbc.ca
Dr. Sui’s main research interests lie in water resources and environmental engineering. Jeuyi has expertise in cold region hydraulics and hydrology (river ice hydraulics and snow hydrology) and fluvial hydraulics.
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Summerville, Tracy
Email: summervi@unbc.ca
WWW: http://web.unbc.ca/~summervi/
Tracy has published papers on political economy and public policy as they relate to Canadian natural resources and the environment. She serves as a member of the BC Studies Editorial Board, and is the Past-President of the BC Political Studies Association. Tracy has also been actively involved in organizing, moderating, and presenting at many conferences related to political studies.
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Wilkening, Ken
Email: kew@unbc.ca
Dr. Wilkening’s research focuses on the science-policy interface of international environmental issues, especially in the Asia and Pacific region. He has worked on acid rain in Northeast Asia, Asian dust (desertification and long-range transport of dust in Asia), trans-Pacific air and marine pollution, and intercontinental transport of air pollutants. Other interests include East Asian environmental security, Asian environmental history, and the overall relationship between science, technology, and environmental change.
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Wilkerson, Orland
Email: wilkerso@unbc.ca
Dr. Wilkerson earned his PhD from the University of Victoria. His primary research interests include community sustainability, environmental auditing, information strategies, and the impacts of energy development. Other interests are community and environmental policy, and environmental thought.
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Tourism Stream |
Maher, Patrick
Email: maherp@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/ortm/rrt_faculty/pat_maher/index.html
Through his study, teaching and travel in the Arctic and Antarctic, Pat has developed a strong research interest in the recreation and tourism that occurs in these geographical regions. Specifically he is interested in expeditionary-type, extended or remote/field-based travel and the meanings associated with such experiences. As well, Pat's interests are in outdoor and experiential education, leadership, wilderness, and adventure tourism and ecotourism.
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Shultis, John
Email: shultis@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/rrt/faculty.htm
Dr. Shultis' research interests focus on the historical and contemporary socio-cultural forces affecting protected areas, outdoor recreation, wilderness, interpretation and resource-based tourism. Examples of recent research include the impact of neoconservatism on protected area management, the impacts of technology of the wilderness experience, the role of the 'risk society' on outdoor recreation and resource-based tourism, and the effects of the recreational use of protected areas on individuals and society.
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Wright, Pam
Email: pwright@unbc.ca
WWW: http://www.unbc.ca/rrt/
Dr. Wright's research focuses on conservation-based approaches to protected areas design, planning and management; the social and ecological impacts and benefits of tourism and recreation on wild spaces. Other research interests include the development of systems-based monitoring approaches for sustainable forest management.
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