Welcome to the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). We are a problem-focused and curiosity-driven interdisciplinary research institute and graduate program, with interest and expertise in a wide range of topics under the realm of environment and sustainability
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Auger-Methe, Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Statistics; Zoology; Animal movement; Polar ecology; Statistical Ecology |
| Barichello, Richard | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Agricultural economics |
| Callison, Candis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | changes to media practices and platforms, journalism ethics, the role of social movements in public discourse, and understanding how issues related to science and technology become meaningful for diverse publics. |
| Chan, Kai | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Human Ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Applied Ethics; Values and Lifestyles; Sustainable Development; conservation finance; Conservation science; cultural ecosystem services; Ecosystem services; environmental assessment; environmental values; incentive programs; payments for ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science |
| Cheung, Wai Lung | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Global change biology; Ecological impacts of climate change; climate change; Marine Ecosystems; sustainability; biodiversity; Interdisciplinary |
| Christensen, Villy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries management; Global change biology; Ecosystem function; Ecosystem modelling |
| Dauvergne, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; international relations; global environmental politics; sustainability governance; global South; Developing countries; transnational corporations; technology; consumption; Plastic Pollution; social movements; environmentalism; activism; deforestation |
| Donner, Simon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; Other media and communication; Climate Science; climate change impacts; Climate policy; Coastal Ecosystems; Marine Environment; Climate modelling and prediction; Science communication; Net-zero emissions; Coral reefs |
| Evenden, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | All other social sciences, n.e.c.; Historical studies; Environmental History; Historical geography; Rivers; Water; War and environment; Hydro-electricity |
| Giang, Amanda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric sciences; Mechanical engineering; Natural environment sciences; Atmospheric Pollutants; Chemical Pollutants; Climate Changes and Impacts; Public Policies; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection |
| Gulati, Sumeet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Agricultural economics; Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict; Economics of Urban Transportation; Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes; Effectiveness of Environmental Policy; International Trade and its Effect on the Environment; Political Economy of Environmental and Trade Policy |
| Harley, Christopher | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fisheries sciences; Zoology; climate change; community ecology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; marine algae; marine invertebrates |
| Harris, Leila | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; Africa; Development Policies; Drinking Water; Environmental justice; equity and social justice; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; Fresh Water; Gender Relationship; gender and social difference; Ghana; International development; participatory resource management; Resources Management; Social Contract and Social Justice; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; South Africa; Turkey and Middle East; Water; water governance; water politics |
| Harrison, Kathryn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Canadian politics, environmental politics, environmental policy, climate change, global warming, climate change policy, Canadian public policy |
| Huggins, Xander | Postdoctoral Fellow | Earth and related environmental sciences; groundwater science; social-ecological systems; geospatial data science |
| Jing, Zhichun | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Prehistoric archaeology; Archaeometry; Archaeological theory; Archaeology; Anthropology; Early China; Shang Civilization; Archaeological Science; Early Urbanism; Geoarchaeology |
| Johnson, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Geology; Natural environment sciences; Agriculture; Biogeochemistry; Carbon cycle; Climate Changes and Impacts; data science; Ecohydrology; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Fresh Water; Ground Water and Water Tables; Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs; Land and Soil; land use; Running Water Hydrosystem; Water and Sustainability |
| Kandlikar, Milind | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Climate change impacts and adaptation; Product life cycle; Environmental policy; Research, science and technology policy; Environmental impacts; Climate Change and energy transition; Technological Risk; Technology and Development |
| Khanna, Tarun | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Economics; Renewable energy systems (except smart systems engineering); Environmental policy; energy economics; Evidence synthesis; policy evaluation; electricity markets; energy in development; decarbonization of the energy sector |
| Koppes, Michele | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions |
| Kremen, Claire | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Zoology; agroecological farming systems; Reconciliation of agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation; sustainable landscapes |
| Kunz, Nadja | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mining engineering; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Decision Analysis; Environmental engineering; Hydrology; Risk management; Systems engineering; water resources management |
| le Billon, Philippe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Geography, politics, africa, environmental, human geography, development, security |
| Lerner, Jackie | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Environmental impact assessment; Land use and environmental planning; cumulative effects assessment; gender-based analysis |
| Meitner, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | forest aesthetics and scenic beauty, outdoor recreation, environmental visualization, geographic information systems, visual perception, agent-based modeling, Public involment in planning, sustainability leadership |
| Mitchell, Matthew | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Terrestrial ecology; Forest ecology; Agricultural ecology; Ecosystem services; urban ecology; Biodiversity conservation; social-ecological systems; Landscape ecology; Agroecosystems |
| Moore, Alex | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Community ecology (except invasive species ecology); Plant-animal interactions; Global change biology; Ecological restoration (except bioremediation); Applied community and ecosystem ecology; impact of predator-prey interactions on the health and functioning of coastal wetland ecosystems; role of cultural values and knowledge in ecosystem restoration conservation; Global change impacts on coastal environments |
| Murphy, Enda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Hydraulic engineering; Marine engineering, n.e.c.; Nearshore processes and coastal oceanography; Estuarine oceanography; Coastal and estuarine system dynamics; Nature-based solutions; Whole system thinking; Coastal systems engineering; Transdisciplinary research; Numerical modelling; Physical modelling; Coastal flood and erosion hazard risk |
| Pakhomov, Yevhenii | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Feeding ecophysiology of aquatic invertebrates and fishes, Antarctic ecology, Antarctic krill biology, Tunicate biology, Fishery ecology, Stable isotope ecology |
| Pauly, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | World fisheries; Marine life; Global catch; Management of fisheries; Fish growth and ecophysiology |
| Philpot, Simone | Postdoctoral Fellow | Social sciences; structured decision making; social ecological systems; environmental policy; conflict analysis; decision sciences; systems theory and design |
| Ramana, M. V. | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; arms control; Energy transitions; degrowth; nuclear disarmament; nuclear energy; nuclear policy; political economy of energy; risk of nuclear accidents |
| Ramankutty, Navin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Agriculture; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate impacts; Environment and Society; Global food security; Land use change; Sustainable agriculture |
| Rhemtulla, Jeanine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; Ecosystem services; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Reforestation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems |
| Smukler, Sean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural sciences; Agricultural ecology; Soil health; Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Ecosystem services |
| Steel, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Addiction; Diversity; ethics; Opioid crisis; Clinical trials; Equity; Philosophy / Ethics; philosophy of science; Values and science risk; Precautionary principle |
| Sumaila, Ussif Rashid | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioeconomics, marine ecosystem valuation and the analysis of global issues such as fisheries subsidies, IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the economics of high and deep seas fisheries |
| Tansey, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ethics of new and emerging technologies, Emerging markets and institutions for carbon trading, Social determinants of health, GM crops and animals |
| Trites, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | marine mammals, seals, sea lions, whales, dolphins, fisheries competition, population biology, ecology, Marine mamals research centre, biology of marine mammals, population dynamics, bioenergetics, fisheries |
| Wittman, Hannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology and related studies; Farming systems research; food sovereignty; Sustainable agriculture; socio-ecological systems; Agroecology |
| Zerriffi, Hisham | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental geography; Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Modelling and applications of systems; Environment and natural resources economics; Environmental policy; Biomass (Energy); Energy Transformation and Energy Using; International development; Environment and Society; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; energy poverty |