1. Restorative Diets: A methodological exploration comparing historical and contemporary salmon harvest rates
2. Multi-dimensional urban environmental justice analysis: exploring patterns, synergies, and trade-offs in Metro Vancouver
Time: 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Location: Beaty Museum Theatre (2212 Main Mall)
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Talk summary:
First Nations face persistent challenges related to the state of their fisheries along the coast of, what some call, British Columbia. Fisheries management strategies imposed by the Crown and State have been implicated in contributing to these challenges. In particular, current strategies continue to set ceilings on First Nations’ harvest rates. Too often the evidence used to determine such ceilings reflects disrupted diets and practices, with repercussions for First Nations working to restore their fisheries, diets, and food systems. I will share how we used the example of salmon to develop methods for estimating a range of harvest rates consistent with less disrupted—restorative—diets, and to consider the magnitude of the difference between harvest rates consistent with restorative compared to contemporary diets. We find salmon harvest rates suggested by contemporary assessments consistently fall below rates consistent with restorative diets.
Erika Gavenus, IRES PhD Candidate
Bio:
Erika Gavenus is a PhD candidate at IRES supervised by Terre Satterfield. She grew up on the lands of the Nichiłt’ana and learned to love fish and fishing on waters long stewarded by Dena’ina and Sugpiaq peoples. Through her doctoral research Erika uses a lens of food justice to examine how imposed fishing regulations can challenge food access for coastal First Nations. She holds a BSc in Global Health from Georgetown University and a MSc in Global Health and Environment from UC Berkeley. Erika is grateful to live and learn on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam.
Everyone has the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment; however, the uneven geographic distribution of demographics and environmental quality can result in disproportionate exposure to environmental risks or lack of access to benefits for marginalized groups, leading to distributive environmental injustice. In this research, we characterize patterns of urban environmental injustice from integrated assessments of multiple environmental factors in Metro Vancouver using geospatial environmental and demographic data for 2016 and 2006. Results show that the patterns of environmental injustice vary through time and across space; these changing patterns are driven by different aspects of environmental quality. The results can provide insights into urban planning and policymaking, for example, targeting communities with a high level of injustice with a significantly disadvantaged population and limiting traffic-related air pollution emissions in high walkable communities to avoid human exposure in active transportation.
Shuoqi Ren, IRES MSc Student
Bio:
Shuoqi Ren is an MSc student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, supervised by Dr. Amanda Giang at UBC. Her research interests focus on multi-dimensional assessments and modelling of urban environmental quality and its applications to environmental justice. Her Master’s research characterizes the interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between environmental variables like air pollutant concentrations, walkability, green space, and temperature and investigates whether there are environmental injustices related to the uneven distribution of environmental benefits, risks, and demographics over time in Metro Vancouver.
Food production is the single greatest driver of direct anthropogenic impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Improving the sustainability of our food systems is thus one of humanity’s great challenges. Through his research, John seeks to bring a food system perspective to fisheries, in order to understand how fisheries produce food for people, identify options for improved performance, develop approaches by which fisheries science and management can be informed with food-related considerations, and integrate fisheries into broader food-related dialogues. Ultimately, John hopes to engage in work that would result in the integration of a food system perspective with ecosystem-based approaches for fisheries.
Currently, John’s specific areas of interest include the development of approaches for analyzing and evaluating fisheries’ nutrient yields, the implications of bait use for fisheries’ nutrient yields, the potential implications of a Canadian seaweed aquaculture industry for both climate change and food production, and the transfer of nutrients from marine to terrestrial ecosystems via fisheries. More broadly, John is interested in food system sustainability, the role of wild animals in food systems, marine habitat conservation, ecosystem-based fisheries management, and developing principles for long-term resilience in fisheries. John has a PhD from UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, where he was in Kai Chan’s lab, and is the fisheries science and policy analyst for David Suzuki Foundation.
The Chiloé archipelago (in southern Chile) is considered one of the world’s priority areas for ecosystem conservation. Although this zone has high rainfall throughout the year, several localities face seasonal water scarcity driven by climate change, over-exploitation of peatlands and native forests, and other environmental interventions. Peasant and Indigenous women have been the primary knowledge keepers of Chiloé’s ecological and cultural heritage, although they have been excluded from natural resource-related decision-making processes. In 2021, an organization of islander women+’s water defenders – the Asamblea de Mujeres por las Aguas (AMIPA) – started identifying and geo-locating water-related problems and conflicts in the archipelago. As an experience driven by activists/researchers, this counter-mapping process is challenging dominant narratives about water and territories while enhancing anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial ways of organizing and building collaborative knowledge.
Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún, IRES PhD Candidate
Bio:
Evelyn Arriagada is an anthropologist and holds an MA in social sciences (Universidad de Chile), an MA in Political and Social Sciences (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (UBC). Her dissertation focuses on shifting subjectivities and hydrosocial relationships in contemporary water justice movements in Chile. Her Ph.D. is supported by a Vanier CGS Award, Killam Doctoral Scholarship, Public Scholar Initiative, and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID – Chile) – among other funding. Her most recent co-authored publication explores the experiences of ‘lived environmental citizenship’ in female rural leaders in central Chile.
Talk summary:
This talk is cancelled. Jumi is sick.
Timely and reliable estimation of crop production is essential for strategic decision making in the agricultural system. Recently, detailed ground-based field-scale yield datasets have become available providing a timely opportunity for using high spatial resolution observational data for model training. The key research objective was to develop a crop-yield prediction model using satellite and biophysical data and calibrated using field-scale yield monitor data. We conducted a thorough assessment using machine and deep learning methods and different combinations of features. Results showed that an integrated dataset combining different types of inputs improved yield estimation over using only satellite-based inputs. Random Forests recorded the highest prediction accuracy in comparison to all other modeling algorithms for every crop. Using the optimized model for within-season yield forecasting, we found that reasonable field level forecasts can be achieved within three months of lead time before harvesting for canola and wheat.
Jumi Gogoi, IRES PhD Candidate
Bio:
Jumi is a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Dr. Navin Ramankutty. She is pursuing her research interests in mobilizing methods from data science to answer questions about food security. Her PhD work specifically focuses on developing modeling methods using different datasets for improving prediction of crop production. Jumi has an interdisciplinary academic background and has completed studies in analytics, economics, and business.
Ecosystem services, Environmental and cultural values, Management of biodiversity, Policy and Decision-making, Resilience, Resource governance and management, Social ecological systems, Sustainability
Bio
Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Re-Wilding and Social-Ecological Transformation. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics from Princeton and Stanford Universities. He strives to understand how social-ecological systems can be transformed to be both better and wilder. Kai leads CHANS lab (Connected Human-and-Natural Systems), and is co-founder of CoSphere (a Community of Small-Planet Heroes). He is a UBC Killam Research Fellow; a member of Canada’s Clean16 and Clean50 for 2020; a Leopold Leadership Program fellow; senior fellow of the Global Young Academy and of the Environmental Leadership Program; a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists; Lead Editor of the new British Ecological Society journal People and Nature; a coordinating lead author for the IPBES Global Assessment; and (in 2012) the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Courses
RES 508 Ecosystem Services
RES 602 Interdisciplinary Research Design for Sustainability
ENVR 430 The Ecological Dimensions of Sustainability
Eyster, H.N., R.K. Gould, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2025). “Use of theories of human action in recent conservation research.” Conservation Biology39(2): e14461. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.14461
Woodburn, E., C.C. Murray, E.J. Gregr, K.M.A. Chan and A. Stock (2025). “The many pathways of climate change affecting coastal ecosystems: a case study of western Vancouver Island, Canada.” FACETS10: 1-18. Doi: 10.1139/facets-2024-0043
Jung, N.J., H.N. Eyster and K.M.A. Chan “Re-envisioning urban landscapes: lichens, liverworts, and mosses coexist spontaneously with us.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environmentn/a(n/a): e2836. Doi: 10.1002/fee.2836
Anderson, L.M., M. Chapman, B. Muraca and K.M.A. Chan “Transformative influence? The hedonic and eudaimonic sustainabilities of social media influencers.” Environmental Communication: 1-19. Doi: 10.1080/17524032.2025.2458227
Easter, T.S., A.R. Santo, A.H. Sage, N.H. Carter, K.M.A. Chan and J.I. Ransom “Divergent values and perspectives drive three distinct viewpoints on grizzly bear reintroduction in Washington, the United States.” People and Naturen/a(n/a). Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10748
Eyster, H.N., K.M.A. Chan, M.E. Fletcher and B. Beckage (2024). “Space-for-time substitutions exaggerate urban bird–habitat ecological relationships.” Journal of Animal Ecology93(12): 1854–1867. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.14194
Naito, R., K.M.A. Chan, R. López de la Lama and J. Zhao (2024). “Audience segmentation approach to conservation messaging for transforming the exotic pet trade.” Conservation Biology38(4): e14267. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.14267
Mitchell, M.G.E., J. Qiu, B.J. Cardinale, K.M.A. Chan, F. Eigenbrod, M.R. Felipe-Lucia, A.L. Jacob, M.S. Jones and L.J. Sonter (2024). “Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales.” Landscape Ecology39(2): 36. Doi: 10.1007/s10980-024-01842-y
López de la Lama, R., N. Bennett, J. Bulkan, S. de la Puente and K.M.A. Chan (2024). “Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru.” People and Nature6(2): 818-832. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10600
Naito, R., K.M.A. Chan and J. Zhao (2024). “Combating the exotic pet trade: Effects of conservation messaging on attitudes, demands, and civic intentions.” Conservation Science and Practice6(2): e13078. Doi: 10.1111/csp2.13078
Benessaiah, K. and K.M. Chan (2023). “Why reconnect to nature in times of crisis? Ecosystem contributions to the resilience and well-being of people going back to the land in Greece.” People and Nature5(6): 2026-2047. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10546
Sánchez, C., E.J. Gregr, E.A. Parkinson and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “The benefits of climate change mitigation to retaining rainbow trout habitat in British Columbia, Canada.” Regional Environmental Change23(3): 108. 10.1007/s10113-023-02097-0
Stock, A., E.J. Gregr and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Data leakage jeopardizes ecological applications of machine learning.” Nature Ecology & Evolution. Doi: 10.1038/s41559-023-02162-1
Naito, R., J. Zhao, R. Naidoo and K.M.A. Chan “Private and civic actions as distinct types of individual engagement for transforming the exotic pet trade.” People and Naturen/a(n/a). Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10517
López de la Lama, R., N. Bennett, J. Bulkan, D. Boyd and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America.” Conservation Biology37(4): e14068. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.14068
Eyster, H.N., T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice.” People and Nature5(2): 455–469. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10453
Loos, J., F. Benra, M. Berbés-Blázquez, L.L. Bremer, K.M.A. Chan et al. (14 authors total) (2023). “An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services.” Ambio52(3): 477-488. Doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01812-1
Stock, A., C.C. Murray, E.J. Gregr, J. Steenbeek, E. Woodburn, F. Micheli, V. Christensen and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Exploring multiple stressor effects with Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace: Research designs, modeling techniques, and future directions.” Science of The Total Environment869: 161719. Doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161719
Driscoll, J. and K.M.A. Chan (2023). “Assessing fisheries nutrient yields: The Northwest Atlantic, 1950–2014.” Ambio52: 271–284. Doi: 10.1007/s13280-022-01795-z
Eyster, H.N., D.S. Srivastava, M. Kreitzman and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Functional traits and metacommunity theory reveal that habitat filtering and competition maintain bird diversity in a human shared landscape.” Ecography2022(11): e06240. Doi: 10.1111/ecog.06240
Eyster, H.N., R. Naidoo and K.M.A. Chan “Not just the Big Five: African ecotourists prefer parks brimming with bird diversity.” Animal Conservation26(4): 428–442. Doi: 10.1111/acv.12816
Driscoll, J. and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Net negative nutrient yields in a bait-consuming fishery.” Environmental Research Letters17(8): 084024. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac82c0
Eyster, H.N., T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Why people do what they do: An interdisciplinary synthesis of human action theories.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources47(1): 725–751. Doi: 10.1146/annurev-environ-020422-125351
Campos, A.A., C.D. Bullen, E.J. Gregr, I. McKechnie and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Steller’s sea cow uncertain history illustrates importance of ecological context when interpreting demographic histories from genomes.” Nature Communications13(1): 3674. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31381-6
Fish, R., K.M.A. Chan, C. Maller, R.S. Hails, E. Aimé and K.J. Gaston (2022). “People and nature: The emerging signature of a relational journal.” People and Nature4(3): 592-595. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10339
Lliso, B., D. Lenzi, B. Muraca, K.M.A. Chan and U. Pascual (2022). “Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability56: 101173. Doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101173
Naito, R., J. Zhao and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “An integrative framework for transformative social change: a case in global wildlife trade.” Sustainability Science17: 171–189 Doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01081-z
Eyster, H.N., P. Olmsted, R. Naidoo and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Motivating conservation even for widespread species using genetic uniqueness and relational values.” Biological Conservation266: 109438. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109438
Kreitzman, M., H. Eyster, M. Mitchell, A. Czajewska, K. Keeley, S. Smukler, N. Sullivan, A. Verster and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Woody perennial polycultures in the U.S. Midwest enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functions.” Ecosphere13(1): e03890. Doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3890
Kreitzman, M., M. Chapman, K.O. Keeley and K.M.A. Chan (2022). “Local knowledge and relational values of Midwestern woody perennial polyculture farmers can inform tree-crop policies.” People and Nature4(1): 180–200. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10275
Bullen, C.D., A.A. Campos, E.J. Gregr, I. McKechnie and K.M.A. Chan “The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim.” Global Ecology and Biogeographyn/a(n/a). Doi: 10.1111/geb.13370
Ono, A.J., D.R. Boyd and K.M.A. Chan “Acculturation as an ecosystem service? Urban natural space supports evolving relational values and identity in new female migrants.” People and Naturen/a(n/a). Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10188
Mitchell, M.G.E., R. Schuster, A.L. Jacob, D.E.L. Hanna, C.O. Dallaire, C. Raudsepp-Hearne, E.M. Bennett, B. Lehner and K.M.A. Chan (2021). “Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning.” Environmental Research Letters16(1): 014038. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc121 [Altimetric score 404]
Mitchell, M.G.E., K.M.A. Chan, N.K. Newlands and N. Ramankutty (2020). “Spatial correlations don’t predict changes in agricultural ecosystem services: A Canada-wide case study.”Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems4(235). Doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.539892
Kreitzman, M., E. Toensmeier, K.M.A. Chan, S. Smukler and N. Ramankutty (2020). “Perennial staple crops: Yields, distribution, and nutrition in the global food system.” Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems4(216). Doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.588988
López de la Lama, R., S. de la Puente, J.C. Sueiro and K.M.A. Chan “Reconnecting with the past and anticipating the future: A review of fisheries-derived cultural ecosystem services in pre-Hispanic Peru.” People and Nature3(1): 129-147. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10153
Echeverri, A., D.S. Karp, L.O. Frishkoff, J. Krishnan, R. Naidoo, J. Zhao, J. Zook and K.M.A. Chan“Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests.” Conservation Lettersn/a(n/a): e12763. Doi 10.1111/conl.12763
Chan, K.M.A. and T. Satterfield (2020). “The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically-informed valuation?” People and Nature 2(4): 1021-1060. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10137
Klain, S., T. Satterfield, K.M.A. Chan and K. Lindberg (2020). “Octopus’s garden under the blade: Boosting biodiversity increases willingness to pay for offshore wind in the United States.”Energy Research & Social Science69: 101744. Doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101744
Chan, K.M.A., D.R. Boyd, R.K. Gould, J. Jetzkowitz, J. Liu, B. Muraca, R. Naidoo, P. Olmsted, T. Satterfield, O. Selomane, G.G. Singh, R. Sumaila, H.T. Ngo, A.K. Boedhihartono, J. Agard, A. P. D. d. Aguiar, D. Armenteras, L. Balint, C. Barrington-Leigh, W.W.L. Cheung, S. Díaz, J. Driscoll, K. Esler, H. Eyster, E.J. Gregr, S. Hashimoto, G.C.H. Pedraza, T. Hickler, M. Kok, T. Lazarova, A.A.A. Mohamed, M. Murray-Hudson, P. O’Farrell, I. Palomo, A.K. Saysel, R. Seppelt, J. Settele, B. Strassburg, D. Xue and E.S. Brondízio (2020). “Levers and Leverage Points for Pathways to Sustainability.” People and Nature. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10124
Gregr, E.J., V. Christensen, L. Nichol, R.G. Martone, R.W. Markel, J. C. Watson, C. D. G. Harley, E. A. Pakhomov, J. B. Shurin and K.M.A. Chan (2020). “Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator.” Science368(6496): 1243-1247. Doi: 10.1126/science.aay5342 [51 news outlets, Altimetric score=500]
Singh, G.G., I.M.S. Eddy, B.S. Halpern, R. Neslo, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2020). “Mapping cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services in British Columbia.” PLOS ONE15(5): e0220092. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220092
Díaz, S., J. Settele, E.S. Brondízio, H.T. Ngo, J. Agard, A. Arneth, P. Balvanera, K.A. Brauman, S.H.M. Butchart, K.M.A. Chan, L.A. Garibaldi, K. Ichii, J. Liu, S.M. Subramanian, G.F. Midgley, P. Miloslavich, Z. Molnár, D. Obura, A. Pfaff, S. Polasky, A. Purvis, J. Razzaque, B. Reyers, R.R. Chowdhury, Y.-J. Shin, I. Visseren-Hamakers, K.J. Willis and C.N. Zayas (2019). “Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change.” Science366(6471): Doi: 10.1126/science.aax3100
Olmsted, P., J. Honey-Rosés, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2019). “Leveraging support for conservation from ecotourists: can relational values play a role?” Journal of Sustainable Tourism: 1-18. Doi: 10.1080/09669582.2019.1683184
Echeverri, A., D.S. Karp, R. Naidoo, J.A. Tobias, J. Zhao and K.M.A. Chan “Can avian functional traits predict cultural ecosystem services?” People and Nature0(0). Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10058
Gould, R.K., M. Pai, B. Muraca and K.M.A. Chan (2019). “He ʻike ʻana ia i ka pono (it is a recognizing of the right thing): how one indigenous worldview informs relational values and social values.” Sustainability Science. Doi: 10.1007/s11625-019-00721-9
Singh, G.G., V.F. Farjalla, B. Chen, … K.M.A. Chan (2019). “Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment0(0). Doi: 10.1002/fee.2084
Singh, G.G., J. Lerner, C. Clarke Murray, J. Wong, M. Mach, B. Ranieri, G. Peterson St-Laurent, A. Guimaraes and K.M.A. Chan (2019). “Response to critique of “The Insignificance of Thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada”.” Environmental Management. Doi: 10.1007/s00267-019-01182-7
Echeverri, A., R. Naidoo, D.S. Karp, K.M.A. Chan and J. Zhao (2019). “Iconic manakins and despicable grackles: Comparing cultural ecosystem services and disservices across stakeholders in Costa Rica.” Ecological Indicators106: 105454. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105454
Karp, D.S., A. Echeverri, J. Zook, P. Juárez, A. Ke, J. Krishnan, K.M.A. Chan, L.O. Frishkoff (2019). “Remnant forest in Costa Rican working landscapes fosters bird communities that are indistinguishable from protected areas.” Journal of Applied Ecology56(7): 1839-1849. Doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13419
Echeverri, A., L.O. Frishkoff, J.P. Gomez, J.R. Zook, P. Juárez, R. Naidoo, K.M.A. Chan, D.S. Karp (2019) “Precipitation and tree cover gradients structure avian alpha diversity in North-western Costa Rica.” Diversity and Distributions25(8): 1222-1233. Doi: 10.1111/ddi.12932
Westwood, A.R., S.P. Otto, A. Mooers, C. Darimont, K.E. Hodges, C. Johnson, … K.M.A. Chan, … J. Whitton (2019). “Protecting biodiversity in British Columbia: Recommendations for developing species at risk legislation.” FACETS4(1): 136-160. Doi: 10.1139/facets-2018-0042
Chan, K.M.A., R.K. Gould and U. Pascual (2018). “Editorial overview: Relational values: what are they, and what’s the fuss about?” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 35: A1-A7. Doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.11.003 (ER)
Gaston, K.J., E. Aimé, K.M.A. Chan, R. Fish, R.S. Hails and C. Maller. (in press). “People and nature—A journal of relational thinking.” People and Nature 0(0). Doi: 10.1002/pan3.7 (ER)
Jax, K., M. Calestani, K.M.A. Chan, et al. (2018). “Caring for nature matters: a relational approach for understanding nature’s contributions to human well-being.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.10.009
Gregr, E.J., D.M. Palacios, A. Thompson and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “Why less complexity produces better forecasts: An independent data evaluation of kelp habitat models.” Ecography 0(ja). Doi: 10.1111/ecog.03470
Šunde, C., J. Sinner, M. Tadaki, J. Stephenson, B. Glavovic, S. Awatere, A. Giorgetti, N. Lewis, A. Young, K. Chan. (2018). “Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces.” Marine Policy 97(Nov): 170-178. Doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.05.024
Frishkoff, L.O., A. Echeverri, K.M.A. Chan and D.S. Karp “Do correlated responses to multiple environmental changes exacerbate or mitigate species loss?” Oikos 127(12): 1724-1734. Doi: 10.1111/oik.05288
Echeverri, A., D.S. Karp, R. Naidoo, J. Zhao and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “Approaching human-animal relationships from multiple angles: A synthetic perspective.” Biological Conservation 224: 50-62. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2018.05.015
Clarke Murray, C., J. Wong, G.G. Singh, M. Mach, J. Lerner, B. Ranieri, G. Peterson St-Laurent, A. Guimaraes and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “The insignificance of thresholds in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study in Canada.” Environmental Management 61(6): 1062-1071. Doi: 10.1007/s00267-018-1025-6
Díaz, S., U. Pascual, M. Stenseke, B. Martín-López, R.T. Watson, Z. Molnár, R. Hill, K.M.A. Chan, I. Baste, et al. (2018). “There is more to nature’s contributions to people than ecosystem services—A response to de Groot et al.” and “Shifts, drifts and options—A response to Faith”. Science 359(6373): e-letter. (ER)
Tam, J., K.M.A. Chan, T. Satterfield, G.G. Singh and S. Gelcich (2018). “Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries.” Marine Policy 90: 1-5. Doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.025
Díaz, S., U. Pascual, M. Stenseke, B. Martín-López, R.T. Watson, Z. Molnár, R. Hill, K.M.A. Chan, I. Baste, et al. (2018). “Assessing nature’s contributions to people.” Science 359(6373): 270-272. Doi: 10.1126/science.aap8826
Kreitzman, M., J. Ashander, J. Driscoll, A.W. Bateman, K.M.A. Chan, M.A. Lewis and M. Krkosek (2018). “Wild salmon sustain the effectiveness of parasite control on salmon farms: Conservation implications from an evolutionary ecosystem service.” Conservation Letters 11(2): e12395. Doi: 10.1111/conl.12395
Karp, D.S., L.O. Frishkoff, A. Echeverri, J. Zook, P. Juárez and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “Agriculture erases climate-driven β-diversity in Neotropical bird communities.” Global Change Biology 24(1): 338-349. Doi: 10.1111/gcb.13821
Chapman, M., S. Klassen, M. Kreitzman, A. Semmelink, K. Sharp, G. Singh and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “5 Key challenges and solutions for governing complex adaptive (food) systems.” Sustainability 9(9): 1594. Doi: 10.3390/su9091594
Klain, S.C., P. Olmsted, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2017). “Relational values resonate broadly and differently than intrinsic or instrumental values, or the New Ecological Paradigm.” PLOS ONE 12(8): e0183962. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183962
Rudman, S.M., M. Kreitzman, K.M.A. Chan and D. Schluter (2017). “Contemporary evosystem services: A reply to Faith et al.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32(10): 719-720. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.07.006 (ER)
Singh, G.G., J. Sinner, J. Ellis, M. Kandlikar, B.S. Halpern, T. Satterfield and K. Chan (2017). “Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays.” PLOS ONE 12(8): e0182233. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182233
Kearney, S.P., N.C. Coops, K.M.A. Chan, S.J. Fonte, P. Siles and S.M. Smukler (2017). “Predicting carbon benefits from climate-smart agriculture: High-resolution carbon mapping and uncertainty assessment in El Salvador.” Journal of Environmental Management 202, Part 1: 287-298. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.039
Klain, S.C., T. Satterfield, J. Sinner, J.I. Ellis and K.M.A. Chan (2018). “Bird killer, industrial intruder or clean energy? Perceiving risks to ecosystem services due to an offshore wind farm.” Ecological Economics 143: 111-129. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.06.030
Pascual, U., I. Palomo, W.M. Adams, K.M.A. Chan, et al. (2017). “Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability.” Environmental Research Letters 12(7): 075001. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7392
Klain, S.C., T. Satterfield, S. MacDonald, N. Battista and K.M. A. Chan (2017). “Will communities “open-up” to offshore wind? Lessons learned from New England islands in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 34: 13-26. Doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.009
Singh, G.G., J. Sinner, J. Ellis, M. Kandlikar, B.S. Halpern, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to coastal ecosystem services: An expert elicitation approach.” Journal of Environmental Management 199: 229-241. Doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.032
Kaltenborn, B.P., J.D.C. Linnell, E. Gómez-Baggethun, H. Lindhjem, J. Thomassen and K.M. Chan (2017). “Ecosystem services and cultural values as building blocks for ‘the good life’. A case study in the community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway.” Ecological Economics 140: 166-176. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.003
Chan, K.M.A., E. Anderson, M. Chapman, K. Jespersen and P. Olmsted (2017). “Payments for ecosystem services: Rife with problems and potential—for transformation towards sustainability.” Ecological Economics: 140(Oct): 10-11. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.029
Rudman, S.M., M. Kreitzman, K.M.A. Chan and D. Schluter (2017). “Evosystem services: Rapid evolution and the provision of ecosystem services.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.019
Chan, K.M.A., P. Olmsted, N.J. Bennett, S.C. Klain and E. Williams. Can ecosystem services make conservation normal and commonplace? Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean: Interdisciplinary science in support of nature and people. P.S. Levin and M.R. Poe. Elsevier, 2017 in press.
Balvanera, P., S. Quijas, D. S. Karp, N. Ash, E. M. Bennett, R. Boumans, C. Brown, K.M.A. Chan, et al. Ecosystem services. The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks. M. Walters and R. J. Scholes. Cham, Switzerland, Springer Open, 2016.39-78. url
Chan, K.M.A. and T. Satterfield. Managing cultural ecosystem services for sustainability. Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services. Eds. M. Potschin, R. Haines-Young, R. Fish and R.K. Turner. Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2016. 343-358.
Chapman, M., A. LaValle, G. Furey and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Sustainability beyond city limits: can “greener” beef lighten a city’s Ecological Footprint?” Sustainability Science: 1-14. Doi: 10.1007/s11625-017-0423-7
Levine, J., M. Muthukrishna, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2017). “Sea otters, social justice, and ecosystem-service perceptions in Clayoquot Sound, Canada.” Conservation Biology: n/a-n/a. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12795
Echeverri, A., M.M. Callahan, K.M.A. Chan, T. Satterfield and J. Zhao (2017). “Explicit not implicit preferences predict conservation intentions for endangered species and biomes.” PLOS ONE12(1): e0170973. Doi: 10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0170973
Tadaki, M., J. Sinner and K.M.A. Chan (2017). “Making sense of environmental values: a typology of concepts.” Ecology and Society22(1). Doi: 10.5751/ES-08999-220107
Echeverri, A., K.M.A. Chan and J. Zhao (2017). “How messaging shapes attitudes toward sea otters as a species at risk.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife: 1-15. Doi: 10.1080/10871209.2016.1272146
Bennett, N.J., R. Roth, S.C. Klain, K.M.A. Chan, D.A. Clark, G. Cullman, G. Epstein, M.P. Nelson, R. Stedman, T.L. Teel, R.E.W. Thomas, C. Wyborn, D. Curran, A. Greenberg, J. Sandlos and D. Veríssimo. (2016). “Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.” Conservation Biology: n/a-n/a. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12788
Bennett, N.J., R. Roth, S.C. Klain, K.M.A. Chan, P. Christie, D.A. Clark, G. Cullman, D. Curran, G. Epstein, A. Greenberg, M.P. Nelson, J. Sandlos, R. Stedman, T.L. Teel, R.E.W. Thomas, D. Veríssimo, C. Wyborn. (2017). Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation.” Biological Conservation205(Jan): 93-108. Doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.006
Clarke Murray, C., M.E. Mach, R.G. Martone, G.G. Singh, M. O and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Supporting risk assessment: Accounting for indirect risk to ecosystem components.” PLOS ONE11(9): e0162932. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162932
Mach, M.E., C.D. Levings and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Nonnative species in British Columbia eelgrass beds spread via shellfish aquaculture and stay for the mild climate.” Estuaries and Coasts: 1-13. Doi: 10.1007/s12237-016-0124-y
Chan, K.M.A., P. Balvanera, K. Benessaiah, et al. (2016). “Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.” PNAS113(6): 1462–1465. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525002113 (ER)
Wieland, R., S. Ravensbergen, E.J. Gregr, T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2016). “Debunking trickle-down ecosystem services: The fallacy of omnipotent, homogeneous beneficiaries.” Ecological Economics 121: 175-180. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.11.007
Levine, J., M. Muthukrishna, K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2015). “Theories of the deep: combining salience and network analyses to produce mental model visualizations of a coastal British Columbia food web.” Ecology and Society20(4). Doi: 10.5751/ES-08094-200442
Mach, M.E., R.G. Martone, K.M.A. Chan (2015). “Human impacts and ecosystem services: insufficient research for trade-off evaluation”. Ecosystem Services16: 112-120. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.10.018
Díaz, S., S. Demissew, C. Joly, et al. [82 authors including K.M.A. Chan] (2015). “The IPBES Conceptual Framework – connecting nature and people.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability14(June): 1-16. Doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2014.11.002
Levine, J., K.M.A. Chan and T. Satterfield (2015). “From rational actor to efficient complexity manager: Exorcising the ghost of Homo economicus with a unified synthesis of cognition research.” Ecological Economics 114(0): 22-32. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.010
Gregr, E.J. and K.M.A. Chan (2015). “Leaps of faith: How implicit assumptions compromise the utility of ecosystem models for decision-making.” BioScience65(1): 43-54. Doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu185
Gould, R., S. Klain, N. Ardoin, T. Satterfield, U. Woodside, N. Hannahs, G. Daily and K.M. Chan (2015). “A protocol for eliciting nonmaterial values using a cultural ecosystem services frame.” Conservation Biology29(2): 575–586. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.12407
Mach, M.E. and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “Trading green backs for green crabs: evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk to European green crab invasion.” F1000 Research2(66): v3. Doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-66.v3
Mach, M.E., S. Wyllie-Echeverria and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: A review of Zostera japonica.” Ocean & Coastal Management102(Part A): 375-382. Doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.10.002
Klain, S., T. Satterfield and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities.” Ecological Economics107: 310-320. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.003
Clarke Murray, C., H. Gartner, E. J. Gregr, K. Chan, E. Pakhomov and T. W. Therriault (2014). “Spatial distribution of marine invasive species: environmental, demographic and vector drivers.” Diversity and Distributions 20(7): 824-836. Doi: 10.1111/ddi.12215
Singh, G.G., J. Tam, T.D. Sisk, S.C. Klain, M.E. Mach, R.G. Martone and K.M.A. Chan (2014). “A more social science: barriers and incentives for scientists engaging in policy.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(3): 161-166. Doi: 10.1890/130011
K. Jax, D.N. Barton, K.M.A. Chan, R. de Groot, U. Doyle, U. Eser, C. Görg, E. Gómez-Baggethun, Y. Griewald, W. Haber, R. Haines-Young, U. Heink, T. Jahn, H. Joosten, L. Kerschbaumer, H. Korn, G.W. Luck, B. Matzdorf, B. Muraca, C. Neßhöver, B. Norton, K. Ott, M. Potschin, F. Rauschmayer, C. von Haaren, S. Wichmann. (2013). Ecosystem services and ethics: Beyond instrumental vs. intrinsic values. Ecological Economics 93: 260-268. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.06.008
Russell, R.R., A. Guerry, P. Balvanera, R. Gould, X. Basurto, K.M.A. Chan, S. Klain, J. Levine, J. Tam. (in press). “Humans and Nature: How knowing and experiencing nature affect wellbeing”. Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Chan, K.M.A., N.C. Ban, and R. Naidoo. “Integrating Conservation Planning with Human Communities, Ecosystem Services, and Economics”, Chapter 2 in L. Craighead, C. Convis eds., Conservation Planning: Shaping the Future, ESRI Press, 2013. 21-50.
