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Publications: Natural Environment
Gauer, Viviane H. and Schaepe, David M. and Welch, John R. (2021). "Supporting Indigenous adaptation in a changing climate: Insights from the Sto Resource Management Centre ( British Columbia ) and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation ( Arizona )". Elementa. Science of the Athropocene, 9(1), 1--17. doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2020.00164
Whitney, Charlotte K. and Edgar, Frid B. and Walkus, J. and Siwallace, P. and Siwallace, I. and Ban, N.C. (2020). ""Like the plains people losing the buffalo": Perceptions of climate change impacts, fisheries management, and adaptation actions by Indigenous peoples in coastal British Columbia, Canada". Ecology and Society, 25(4), 33..
Pelto, Ben Mauri. (2020). An approach to remotely monitor glacier mass balance at seasonal to annual time scales, Columbia and Rocky Mountains, Canada [Thesis] University of Northern British Columbia.
Smyth, Carolyn E. and Xu, Zhen and Lemprière, Tony C. and Kurz, Werner A. (2020). "Climate change mitigation in British Columbia's forest sector: GHG reductions, costs, and environmental impacts". Carbon Balance and Management, 15(21), 22.
Palmer-Wilson, Kevin Gordon. (2020). How do we power decarbonization? Land and other resources in Canada's West. [Thesis] University of Victoria. doi.org/https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/handle/1828/11659
Xie, Sheng Hao. (2020). Impact of harvested wood products consumption strategies on British Columbia's greenhouse gas emissions. [Thesis] University of British Columbia. doi.org/10.14288/1.0390321
Gauer, Viviane Hippmann. (2019). Adaptive capacity creation in the St\'o:lō Research and Resource Management Centre (St\'o:lō Nation, BC) and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation (White Mountain Apache Tribe, AZ). [Thesis] Simon Fraser University.
Whitney, Charlotte K. (2019). Adaptive capacity, coastal communities, and marine conservation planning in the face of climate change. [Thesis] University of Victoria.
Frank, Lawrence D. and Hong, Andy and Ngo, Victor Douglas. (2019). "Causal evaluation of urban greenway retrofit: A longitudinal study on physical activity and sedentary behavior". Preventive Medicine, 123, 109--116. doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.01.011
Wilson, Barbara. (2019). DamXan gud.ad t'alang hllGang.gulXads Gina Tllgaay (Working together to make it a better world). [Thesis] Simon Fraser University. 92.
Conger, Tugce and Chang, Stephanie E. (2019). "Developing indicators to identify coastal green infrastructure potential: The case of the Salish Sea region". Ocean and Coastal Management, 175(April), 53--69. doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.03.011
Aminipouri, Mehdi. (2019). Evaluating heat vulnerability and the impact of urban street tree planting on radiant heat exposure: Examples from Vancouver's neighborhoods. [Thesis] Simon Fraser University.
Chalifour, L and Scott, DC and MacDuffee, M and Iacarella, JC and Martin, TG and Baum, JK. (2019). "Habitat use by juvenile salmon, other migratory fish, and resident fish species underscores the importance of estuarine habitat mosaics". Marine Ecology Progress Series, 625, 145--162. doi.org/10.3354/meps13064
Conrad, Steven A. and Pipher, Joel and Haider, Wolfgang. (2019). "How current lawn attributes affect choices concerning water conserving lawn options: An individualized choice experiment in Kelowna, British Columbia". Landscape and Urban Planning, 183(July 2018), 147--156. doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.07.014
Morgan, Samantha E. and Allen, Diana M. and Kirste, D.M. Dirk and Salas, Carlos J. (2019). "Investigating the hydraulic role of a large buried valley network on regional groundwater flow". Hydrogeology Journal1--21. doi.org/10.1007/s10040-019-01995-0
Brisbois, Ben W. and Reschny, Jamie and Fyfe, Trina M. and Harder, Henry G. and Parkes, Margot W. and Allison, Sandra and Buse, Chris G. and Fumerton, Raina and Oke, Barbara. (2019). "Mapping research on resource extraction and health: A scoping review". Extractive Industries and Society, 6(1), 250--259. doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.10.017
Aminipouri, Mehdi and Knudby, Anders Jensen and Krayenhoff, E. Scott and Zickfeld, Kirsten and Middel, Ariane. (2019). "Modelling the impact of increased street tree cover on mean radiant temperature across Vancouver's local climate zones". Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 39(January), 9--17. doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.01.016
Pelto, Ben M and Menounos, Brian and Marshall, Shawn J. (2019). "Multi-year evaluation of airborne geodetic surveys to estimate seasonal mass balance, Columbia and Rocky Mountains, Canada". The Cryosphere, 13, 1709--1727. doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-1709-2019
Dierauer, Jennifer R. and Allen, Diana M. and Whitfield, Paul H. (2019). "Snow Drought Risk and Susceptibility in the Western United States and Southwestern Canada". Water Resources Research1--16.
Bakri, Talaat and Jackson, Peter. (2019). "Statistical and synoptic analyses of offshore wind variations". International Journal of Climatology(39), 3201--3217. doi.org/10.1002/joc.6012
Buse, Chris G. and Lai, Valerie and Cornish, Katie and Parkes, Margot W. (2019). "Towards environmental health equity in health impact assessment: innovations and opportunities". International Journal of Public Health, 64(1), 15--26. doi.org/10.1007/s00038-018-1135-1
Hember, Robbie A. and Kurz, Werner A. and Girardin, Martin P. (2019). "Tree‐ring reconstructions of stemwood biomass indicate increases in the growth rate of black spruce trees across boreal forests of Canada". Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences2018JG004573. doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004573
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume and Hoberg, George and Sheppard, Stephen R.J. (2018). "A Participatory Approach to Evaluating Strategies for Forest Carbon Mitigation in British Columbia". Forests, 9(4), 225. doi.org/10.3390/f9040225
Buse, Chris G. and Smith, Maxwell and Silva, Diego S. (2018). "Attending to scalar ethical issues in emerging approaches to environmental health research and practice". Monash Bioethics Review, 37, 4--21. doi.org/10.1007/s40592-018-0080-3
Howard, Christina and Smyth, Carolyn E. (2018). Bioenergy Mitigation Potential: Refining Displaced Emissions from British Columbia's Heat and Electricity Production. 13.
Xu, Zhen and Smyth, Carolyn E. and Lemprière, Tony C. and Rampley, Greg J. and Kurz, Werner A. (2018). "Climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector: biophysical impacts and economic implications in British Columbia, Canada". Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 23(2), 257--290. doi.org/10.1007/s11027-016-9735-7
Dierauer, Jennifer R. and Whitfield, Paul H. and Allen, Diana M. (2018). "Climate Controls on Runoff and Low Flows in Mountain Catchments of Western North America". Water Resources Research, 54(10), 7495--7510. doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023087
Conger, Tugce. (2018). Coastal green infrastructure as a sea level rise adaptation measure: assessing environmental, local, and institutional contexts. [Thesis] University of British Columbia. 289. doi.org/10.14288/1.0375779
Conrad, Steven A. and Yates, D. (2018). "Coupling stated preferences with a hydrological water resource model to inform water policies for residential areas in the Okanagan Basin, Canada". Journal of Hydrology, 564, 846--858. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.07.031
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume. (2018). Deliberating climate change mitigation options and policies in British Columbia's forests. [Thesis] University of British Columbia.
Dierauer, Jennifer R. and Allen, Diana M. and Whitfield, Paul H. (2018). Exploring Future Water Demand and Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability in the Peace Region of British Columbia, Canada. 45--54. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7383-0_4
Holding, Shannon and McKoen, Z. and Allen, Diana M. (2018). Groundwater and surface water quality and quantity vulnerability mapping in Northeast British Columbia. Technical report submitted to BC Oil and Gas Commission [project report]. 17.
Allen, Diana M. and Holding, Shannon and McKoen, Z. (2018). Hazard-specific Vulnerability Mapping for Water Security in a Shale Gas Context. 37--43. doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7383-0_3
Hember, Robbie A. and Kurz, Werner A. (2018). "Low tree-growth elasticity of forest biomass indicated by an individual-based model". Forests, 9(1), 1--25. doi.org/10.3390/f9010021
Simons, M.S. and Allen, Diana M. and Kirste, K. and Welch, L.A. (2018). Modelling the disposal of highly saline wastewater in the Paddy and Cadotte Members, Northeastern British Columbia (NTS 093P); in Geoscience BC summary of activities 2017: Energy, (Report 2018-4). [project report]. 87--96.
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume and Hagerman, Shannon M. and Kozak, R and Hoberg, George. (2018). "Public perceptions about climate change mitigation in British Columbia's forest sector". PLoS One, 13(4), e0195999. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195999
Hember, Robbie A. (2018). "Spatially and temporally continuous estimates of annual total nitrogen deposition over North America, 1860-2013". Data in Brief, 17, 134--140. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.12.052
Yip, Zheng Ki (Jackie). (2018). Spatially explicit robust impact patterns: a new approach to account for uncertainties of long-term sea-level rise impacts at the local level. [Thesis] University of British Columbia. doi.org/10.14288/1.0371129
Hember, Robbie A. and Coops, Nicholas C and Kurz, Werner A. (2018). "Statistical performance and behaviour of environmentally-sensitive composite models of lodgepole pine growth". Forest Ecology and Management, 408, 157--173. doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.072
Murphy, Rose Elise and Gross, Dominique M. and Jaccard, Mark. (2018). "Use of revealed preference data to estimate the costs of forest carbon sequestration in Canada". Forest Policy and Economics, 97, 41--50. doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.06.008
Buse, Chris G. (2018). "Why should public health agencies across Canada conduct climate change and health vulnerability assessments?". Canadian Journal of Public Health, 109(5-6), 782--785. doi.org/10.17269/s41997-018-0118-6
Whitney, Charlotte K. and Bennett, Nathan J. and Ban, Natalie C. and Allison, Edward H. and Armitage, Derek and Blythe, Jessica L. and Burt, Jenn M. and Cheung, William and Finkbeiner, Elena M. and Kaplan-Hallam, Maery and Perry, Ian and Turner, Nancy J. and Yumagulova, Lilia. (2017). "Adaptive capacity: from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems". Ecology and Society, 22(2), 22. doi.org/10.5751/es-09325-220222
Dierauer, Jennifer R. and Whitfield, Paul H. and Allen, Diana M. (2017). "Assessing the suitability of hydrometric data for trend analysis: The 'FlowScreen' package for R". Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 42(3), 269--275. doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2017.1290553
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume and Hagerman, Shannon M. and Hoberg, George. (2017). "Barriers to the development of forest carbon offsetting: Insights from British Columbia, Canada". J Environ Manage, 203(Pt 1), 208--217. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.051
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume and Hagerman, Shannon and Hoberg, George. (2017). "Emergence and influence of a new policy regime: The case of forest carbon offsets in British Columbia". Land Use Policy, 60, 169--180. doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.10.025
Holding, Shannon and Allen, Diana M. and Notte, Chelsea and Olewiler, Nancy. (2017). "Enhancing water security in a rapidly developing shale gas region". Journal of Hydrology : Regional Studies, 11, 266--277. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.09.005
Peterson St-Laurent, Guillaume and Hoberg, George and Kurz, Werner A. and Smyth, Carolyn E. and Xu, Zhen and Lemprière, Tony C. (2017). Evaluating options for managing British Columbia's forest sector to mitigate climate (Second Primer).
Smyth, Carolyn E. and Kurz, Werner A. (2017). Forest sector strategies for climate change mitigation.
Hember, Robbie A. and Kurz, Werner A. and Coops, Nicholas C. (2017). "Increasing net ecosystem biomass production of Canada's boreal and temperate forests despite decline in dry climates". Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31, 134--158. doi.org/10.1002/2016gb005459
Morgan, Samantha E. and Allen, Diana M. and Kirste, D.M. Dirk and Salas, Carlos J. (2017). Investigating the role of buried valley aquifer systems in the regional hydrogeology of the Peace River region, northeastern British Columbia (parts of NTS 094A, B); in Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2016, Geoscience BC, Report 2017-1 [project report. 63--68.
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