Juan Diego Martinez

PhD with Navin Ramankutty, 2023

Applied Research Coordinator, Climate Action and Food Systems, UBC Campus and Community Planning

Contact Details

jdm@ires.ubc.ca

Research Lab – http://www.ramankuttylab.com/

Research Interests

Climate change, Environment, Food security

Bio

Juan finished his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Navin Ramankutty. He researched inequality in access to food and its implications for food consumption GHG emissions and key sustainable development goals (UN SDGs). As a member of UBC’s Land Use and Global Environment lab, Juan cultivated a broad understanding of the global food system challenges and interactions with a deep understanding of Food Security and Food System Sustainability.

After graduation, he joined the SEEDS sustainability program at UBC as an Applied Research Coordinator for Climate Action and Food Systems. At SEEDS he aims to apply his expertise of the global food system on local issues. His research is aimed at understanding how access to food is shaped by income/expenditure inequality, illustrating the disparities among and within countries in the past decades.

Last Updated May 2023

David R. Boyd

Associate Professor, IRES
Former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment 2018-24
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Contact Details

AERL Building Room 433
2202 Main Mall
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada

david.r.boyd@ires.ubc.ca

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=QCqEGDgAAAAJ&hl=en

Bio

Associate Professor of Law, Policy and Sustainability, IRES

David R. Boyd is an environmental lawyer and internationally renowned expert on human rights and the environment. He has a PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies from UBC, a JD from the University of Toronto, and a business degree from the University of Alberta. His primary focus is on identifying laws and policies that will accelerate the transition to an ecologically sustainable and just future, both in Canada and across the world. Areas of particular interest include environmental justice, environmental rights and responsibilities, the rights of nature, the debate between regulation and economic instruments, and urban environmental issues.

Boyd was appointed as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment commencing August 1, 2018. On July 28, 2022, the UN General Assembly recognized the right to a healthy environment for all people — a victory owed to civil society, youth activists, women and Indigenous peoples who fought for this right for 30 years, and to Boyd’s advocacy since his 2018 appointment to the UN Human Rights Council. He has presented 10 reports thus far to the UN Human Rights Council explaining that a healthy environment includes clean air, a safe climate, a healthy biosphere, sufficient access to water, sustainable food and a non-toxic unpolluted environment.

Boyd is the author of seven books and over 100 articles on environmental issues. His most recent books include The Optimistic Environmentalist (ECW Press, 2015), Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies (UBC Press, 2015), The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada’s Constitution (UBC Press, 2012) and The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (UBC Press, 2012).

Edward Gregr

Adjunct Professor

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Research Interests

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I completed my PhD with Dr. Chan at IRES, studying the sea otter – kelp forest trophic cascade and the associated changes in ecosystem services. This interdisciplinary work compliments my earlier academic training in Zoology (M.Sc. 2000) and Computer Science (B.Sc. 1992), which is reflected in my over 25 years of experience in field research design and sampling, research, consulting, and project management. I consider myself a Systems Ecologist studying the intersection of ecosystem services, risk, and human values. My research interests centre on using various types of spatial models to inform ecosystem-based management, and on making such models more credible, relevant, and legitimate. Understanding model uncertainty is the foundation of model credibility, and to that end, I am exploring ways of making models more credible through the explicit consideration of model assumptions. To be effective, model results must also be relevant to managers, and perceived as legitimate by stakeholders. These goals are most likely to be achieved if model objectives and scope are defined collaboratively with interested managers and vested stakeholders. I continue to pursue opportunities to build such models in contentious and complex social-ecological contexts.

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Leila M. Harris

Professor, IRES
Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

Contact Details

lharris@ires.ubc.ca

Bio

Dr. Leila M. Harris is a Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. She also serves as Co-Director for UBC’s Program on Water Governance, is a member of the EDGES research collaborative (Environment and Development: Gender, Equity, and Sustainability Perspectives), and is an Associate of the Department of Geography, and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC.

Harris’s work examines social, cultural, political-economic, institutional and equity dimensions of environmental and resource issues. Her current research focuses on the intersection of environmental issues and inequality / social difference, water governance shifts (e.g. marketization, participatory governance), in addition to conducting a multi-sited analysis of the non-material dimensions of water insecurity, highlighting themes such as emotions, trust, senses of belonging and state legitimacy (e.g. South Africa, Brazil, and Canada). Harris also served as principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded International WaTERS Research and Training Network focused on water governance, equity and resilience in the Global South.

Projects

Beyond Access: Comparative Analysis of Non-material Dimensions of Water Insecurities Current

https://edges.sites.olt.ubc.ca/research/beyond-access-comparative-analysis-of-non-material-dimensions-of-water-insecurities/

Awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant, this research project has three goals. First, it advances conceptualization and empirical evidence for non-material elements of water insecurity. Second, it examines theoretical and empirical linkages between household water (in)security and citizen engagement and participation across case study sites (e.g. South Africa, Brazil, Canada). Third, it develops and extends narrative, visual, and comparative methods for water insecurity studies. This project will contribute to our understanding of meanings and experiences of water insecurity and how these impinge on engagement and other key features of water governance. Team members: Dr. Leila Harris, Dacotah Splichalova, Dr. Wendy Jepson, Dr. Shannon Walsh, and Dr. Mary Galvin.

Evolving Sites and Scales of Environmental Governance Current

Over the past decade, I have been conducting a comparative investigation of changing scales and sites of environmental governance, with focus on water management and institutions, and also lived experience of governance changes, notably in the daily lives of women and marginalized community members in different locations.

Water Governance in Accra and Cape Town: Access, Citizenship, and Narrative Completed

https://edges.sites.olt.ubc.ca/research/edges-comparative-water-governance-in-africa-research-project-cwgar/

From 2012-onwards, I have worked with other members of the EDGES research collaborative to investigate the lived realities of water governance changes for marginalized residents, notably in underserved settlements in Cape Town, South Africa and Accra Ghana.

Water Governance dimensions of Emergent Watershed Metagenomics Technologies Completed

www.watersheddiscovery.ca

Working with a large collaborative team led by P. Tang and J. Isaac Renton at the University of British Columbia and British Columbia Centers for Disease Control, this project investigated key water governance questions in relation to possibilities for novel water testing for human and ecosystem health using eco-genomics (or metagenomics) technology.

Water Quality and Governance for First Nations, particularly in British Columbia Completed

https://edges.sites.olt.ubc.ca/research/assessing-drinking-water-governance-in-british-columbia-water-quality-in-first-nations/

Research on this theme includes focus on water quality monitoring and governance capacity in BC First Nation communities, as well as a host of issues important to include first nations water security.

Socio-spatial dimensions of Environmental Politics and Activism in Contemporary Turkey Completed

Drawing on focus groups and interviews conducted at four sites (Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, and Sanliurfa), this research engaged everyday citizen narratives of environmental politics and meanings in contemporary Turkey.

Developmental and Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey Completed

This long-term research effort (beginning in 2001) considers questions of: a) state theory and shifting political subjectivities in relation to developmental and environmental change associated with large-scale transformation of the upper Tigris-Euphrates basin as part of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP); b) narratives of environmental change and implications for sustainability studies; c) issues of social difference, specifically gender and ethnicity, as impetus for, and effects of, state-led development in the Southeastern Anatolia region.

Featured Publications

Boelens, R., Escobar, A., Bakker, K., Hommes, L., Swyngedouw, E., Hogenboom, B., Hujibens, E.H., Jackson, S., Vos, J., Harris, L.M., Joy, K.J., de Castro, F., Duarte-Abadía, B., Tubino de Souza, D., Lotz-Sisitka, H., Hernández-Mora, N., Martínez-Alier, J., Roca-Servat, D., Perreault, T., Sanchis-Ibor, C., Suhardiman, D., Ulloa, A., Wals, A., Hoogestegar, J., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J.P., Roa-Avendaño, T., Veldwisch, G.J., Woodhouse, P., & Wantzen, K.M. (2022). Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice, The Journal of Peasant Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120910. Open access to publication available here.

Harris, L.M. (2022). Learning from Aotearoa: Water governance challenges and debates. New Zealand Geographer. https://doi/org/10.1111/nzg.12334. Subscription access to publication available here.

Sengupta, M., & Harris, L.M. (2022). Interrogating differences: intersectionality and participatory livelihood development in the upland forest of Tripura (Northeast India). Geoforum 133, 59-68. https://doi.org/10/1016/j.geoforum.2022.02.002. Subscription access to paper available here.

Tremblay, C. & Harris, L.M. (2022). Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video. Research for All, 6(1). DOI: 10.14324/RFA.06.1.04. Open access to paper available here.

Harris, L. M. (2021) Towards narrative political ecologies. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211010677. Subscription access to paper available here.

Özerol G., Harris L.M. (2020). Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Water Governance: Insights for Engendering Energy Transitions. In: Clancy J., Özerol G., Mohlakoana N., Feenstra M., Sol Cueva L. (eds) Engendering the Energy Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Subscription access to publication available here.

McDowell, G., Harris, L., Koppes, M. et al. (2020). “From needs to actions: Prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities“. Climatic Change 163: 953-972. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02920-1. Open access to publication available here.

Meehan, K., Jepson, W., Harris, L.M., et al. “Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review”. WIREs Water. 2020; 7:e1486. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1486. Open access to publication available here.

Harris, L. M., Staddon, C., Wutich, A., Budds, J., Jepson, W., Pearson, A. L., & Adams, E. A. (2020). Water sharing and the right to water: Refusal, rebellion and everyday resistance. Political Geography, 102245. Subscription access to publication available here.

Campero, C., Rodriguez, A., Harris, L and Kunz, N. (2019). APEC Women’s Participation in the Mining Industry. APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy. APEC. Open access to publication available here.

Jepson, W., Wutich, A., & Harris, L. (2019). Water-security capabilities and the human right to water. In. F. Sultana & A. Loftus (Eds.), Water Politics: Governance, justice and the right to water. Routledge. Subscription access to publication available here.

Brisbois, B.W., Spiegel, J.M., & Harris, L. (2019). Health, environment and colonial legacies: Situating the science of pesticides, bananas and bodies in Ecuador. Social Science & Medicine, 239, 112529. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112529. Open access to publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Shah, S.H., Wilson, N.J. and J. Nelson (Eds). (2019). Special Issue “Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics.” Water 11. Open access to publication available here.

Harris, L.M. (2019). Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state-society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419859365. Shareable version of publication available here.

Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Harris, L.M. and Gert Jan Veldwisch. (2019). Rural–urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities. Water International 44(2): 81-94. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1583311. Open access to publication available here.

Torio, P.C., Harris, L.M. and Leonora C. Angeles. (2019). The rural–urban equity nexus of Metro Manila’s water system. Water International 44(2): 115-128. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1560559. Shareable version of publication available here.

Hommes, L., Veldwisch, G.J., Harris, L.M. and Rutgerd Boelens. (2019). Evolving connections, discourses and identities in rural–urban water struggles, Water International 44(2): 243-253. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2019.1583312. Open access to publication available here.

Campero, C. and Harris, L.M. (2019). The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile. Water 11: 886. DOI: 10.3390/w11050886. Open access to publication available here.

Wilson, N.J., Harris, L.M., Joseph-Rear, A., Beaumont, J. and Satterfield, T. (2019). Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada. Water 11(3): 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030624. Open access to publication available here.

Ramón-Hidalgo, A. and L. Harris. (2019). Social capital, political empowerment and social difference: a mixed-methods study of an ecotourism project in the rural Volta Region of Ghana. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 10.1080/09669582.2018.1546711. Shareable version of publication available here.

Brewis, A., Rosinger, A., Wutich, A., Adams, E., Cronk, L., Pearson, A., Workman, C., Young, S. & Household Water Insecurity Experiences-Research Coordination Network (Harris is listed as among the members of the HWISE consortium). (2019). Water Sharing, reciprocity and need: a comparative study of inter-household water transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic Anthropology 6(2): 208-21. Subscription access to publication available here.

Harris, L.M., McKenzie, S, Rodina, L. Shah, S.H., & N. Wilson. (2018) Water justice: key concepts, debates and research agendas. In: R. Holifield, J. Chakraborty, and G. Walker (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice. London and New York, Routledge. Shareable version of publication available here.

Wutich, A., J. Budds, W. Jepson, L. Harris, E. Adams, A. Brewis, L. Cronk, C. DeMyers, K. Maes, T. Marley, J. Miller, A. Pearson, A. Rosinger, R. Schuster, J. Stoler, C. Staddon, P.Wiessner, C. Workman, S.L. Young. (2018). Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 5(6):e1309. Subscription access to publication available here.

Stoler, J, A. Brewis, L. Harris, A. Wutich, A.L. Pearson, A.Y. Rosinger, R.C. Schuster, S.L. Young (2018) Household water sharing: a missing link in international health. International Health. ihy094. https://doi.org/10.1093/intlhealth/ihy094. Open access to publication available here.

Peloso, M., C. Morinville and L. Harris. (2018). Water Scarcity Beyond Crisis: Spotlight on Accra. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Open access to publication available here.

McFarlane, K. and Harris, L.M. (2018). Small systems, big challenges: Review of small drinking water system governance. Environmental Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2018-0033. Shareable version of publication available here.

Kleiber, D, Harris, L.M., Vincent, A. (2018). Gender and Marine Protected Areas: A case study of Danajon Bank, Philippines. Marine Studies, 2018:107. Subscription access to publication available here.

Harper, S., Salomon, A.K., Newell, D., Waterfall, P.H., Brown, K., Harris, L.M., Sumaila, U.R. (2018). Indigenous women respond to fisheries conflict and catalyze change in governance on Canada’s Pacific Coast. Maritime Studies. Subscription access to publication available here.

Wutich, A., Budds, J., Jepson, W., Harris, L.M., Adams, E., Brewis, A., Cronk, L., DeMyers, C., Maes. K., Marley, T., Miller, J., Pearson, A., Rosinger, A., Schuster, R., Stoler, J., Staddon, C., Wiessner, P., Workman, C., Young, S. (2018). Water sharing across cultures: Gifts, exchanges and other transfers between households. Advanced Science News. Open access to publication available here.

Luker, E., and Harris, L.M. (2018). Developing new urban water supplies: Investigating motivations and barriers to groundwater use in Cape Town. International Journal of Water Resources Development. Open access to publication available here.

Ramón-Hidalgo, A-E., McFarlane, K., Raab, E., & Harris, L.M. (2018). Lessons from the EU approach to governing small water drinking systems. Program on Water Governance Policy Brief. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Yates, J. and L. Harris. (2018). Hybrid regulatory landscapes: The human right to water, variegated neoliberal water governance, and policy transfer in Cape Town, South Africa and Accra Ghana. World Development 110: 75 – 87. Subscription access to publication available here.

Tremblay, C. and L. Harris. (2018). Critical Video Engagements: Emotions, subjectivity and changing narratives of water resources through participatory video. Geoforum 90: 174-182. Open access to publication available here.

Wutich, A., Budds, J., Eichelberger, L., Geere, J., Harris, L.M., Horney, J.A., … Pearson, A.L. (2017). Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions, and governance. Water Security, 2, 1-10. Subscription access to publication available here.

Jepson, W. E., J. Budds, L. Eichelberger, L. Harris, E. Norman, K. O’Reilly, A. Pearson, S. Shah, J. Shinn, C. Staddon, J. Stoler, A. Wutich, and S. Young. (2017). Advancing Human Capabilities for Water Security: A relational approach. Water Security 1: 46-52. Subscription access to publication available here.

Brisbois, B., J. Spiegel, L.M. Harris. (2017) Political Ecologies of Globalization and Health: Pesticide exposure in southwestern Ecuador’s banana industry. Antipode, 1-21. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12340. Open access to publication available here.

Richardson, J., H. Schrier, L. Harris (2017) Canada’s most precious resource. In. P.D. Tortell, M. Young & P.N. Nemetz (Eds.), Reflections of Canada: Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years. Vancouver, BC: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Bakker, K., R. Simms, N. Joe, L. Harris. (2017). Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada: Regulatory injustice and prospects for reform. In R. Boelens et al. Water Justice, Cambridge. Subscription access to publication available here.

Dapaah, E., and L. Harris. (2017). Framing a Community’s Entitlement to Water access in Accra, Ghana: A complex reality. Geoforum. 82, 26-39. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Chu, E., Ziervogel, G.. (2017). Negotiated Resilience. Resilience Journal. DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2017.1353196. Shareable version of publication available here.

Shah, S., N. Angeles, L.M. Harris. (2017). Worlding the intangibility of resilience: The case of rice farmers in a water-stressed region of the the Philippines. World Development 98: 400-412. Shareable version of publication available here.

Peloso, M.M., Harris, L.M. (2017). Pathways for Participatory Water Governance in Ashaiman, Ghana: Learning from Institutional Bricolage and Hydrosocial Perspectives, Society & Natural Resources, 30:12, 1491-1506, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1364451. Open access to publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Prsytajecky, N. et al. (2017). Improving Water Quality with Novel Diagnostics: Policy Brief of the Watershed Metagenomics for Improved Water Quality Testing. Program on Water Governance Policy Brief. www.watergovernance.ca. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36250.54722. Shareable version of publication available here.

Rodina, L., Baker, L.A., Galvin, M., Goldin, J., Harris, L.M., Manungufala, T., Musemwa, M., Sutherland, C., Ziervogel, G. (2017). Water, Equity and resilience in Southern Africa: Future directions for research and practice. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26-27, 143-151. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M, Kleiber, D., Rodina, L, Yaylaci, S., Goldin, J., & G. Owen (2017). Water Materialities and Participatory Governance: Implications of water quality and access for participatory engagement in Accra Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa. Society & Natural Resources 31(1):89-105. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M. (2017). Political ecologies of the state: Recent interventions and questions and going forward. Political Geography 58(May): 90-92. Shareable version of publication available here.

Joe, N., K. Bakker & L.M. Harris. (2017). Perspectives on the BC Water Sustainability Act: First Nations respond to water governance reform in British Columbia. Vancouver, BC: Program on Water Governance. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Yates, J.S., Wilson, N.J. & Harris, L.M. (2017). Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governance. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(5):797-815. doi:10.1177/0263775817700395. Subscription access to publication available here.

Jollymore, A., McFarlane, K. & Harris, L.M. (2017). Whose input counts? Evaluating the process and outcomes of public consultation through the BC Water Act Modernization. Critical Policy Studies. doi:10.1080/19460171.2017.1282377. Shareable version of publication available here.

Ziervogel, G., Pelling, M., Cartwright, A., Chu, E., Deshpande, T., Harris, L., Hyams, K., Kaunda, J., Klaus, B., Kavya, M., Pasquini, L., Pharoah, R., Rodina, L., Scott, D. & P. Zweig. (2017). Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience : a focus on everyday risk. Environment and Urbanization. 29(1): 123-138. Open access to publication available here.

Dunn, G., L. Harris & K. Bakker. (2017). Canadian Drinking Water Policy: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance. In: S. Renzetti & D. P. Dupont (Eds.) Water Policy and Governance in Canada. Springer International Publishing. Subscription access to publication available here.

Beck, T., Rodina, L., Luker, E. & Harris, L.M. (2016). Institutional and Policy Mapping of the Water Sector in South Africa. Program on Water Governance. watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Beck, T., Harris, L.M., Luker, E. (2016). Institutional and policy mapping of the water sector in Ghana. Program on Water Governance. watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Rodina, L., Luker, E., Darkwah, A. & Goldin, J. (2016). Water Access in underserved areas of Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa: 2012 Survey Report. Program on Water Governance. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Jollymore, A., McFarlane, K. & Harris, L.M. (2016). Whose input counts? Public consultation and the Water Sustainability Act. Program on Water Governance. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Rodina, L. & Harris, L.M. (2016). Resilience in South Africa’s urban water landscape. Op-Ed: The Conversation.

Morinville, C. & Harris, L.M. (2016). Policy brief: Analyzing participatory urban water governance in Accra, Ghana. Program on Water Governance. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L. (2016) Theorizing gender, ethnic difference, and inequality in relation to water access and politics in southeastern Turkey. In: C. Ashcraft and T. Mayer (Eds) The Politics of Freshwater: Access, Conflict and Identity. Routledge, Earthscan. Shareable version of publication available here.

Rodina, L. & L. M. Harris (2016). Water Services, Lived Citizenship, and Notions of the State in Marginalised Urban Spaces: The case of Khayelitsha, South Africa. Water Alternatives 9(2): 336-355. Open access to publication available here.

Simms, R., Harris, L. M., Joe, N., & Bakker, K. (2016). Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance: Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada. Geoforum 73: 6–16. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Rodina, L., Luker, E., Darkwah, A., Goldin, J. (2016). Survey data report on water access and governance in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa: 2012 Survey Data Report. Program on Water Governance. www.watergovernance.ca. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L. M., Kleiber, D., Goldin, J., Darkwah, A., and C. Morinville (2016). Intersections of Gender and Water: Comparative approaches to everyday gendered negotiations of water access in underserved areas of Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Gender Studies. DOI:10.1080/09589236.2016.1150819. Shareable version of publication available here.

Harris, L.M., Rodina, L. & Morinville, C. (2015). Revisiting the Human Right to Water from and Environmental Justice Lens, Politics, Groups and Identities Journal DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2105.1080619

Harris, L., L. Rodina, C. Morinville (2015) Revisiting the Human Right to Water from and Environmental Justice Lens. Politics, Groups and Identities 3(4): 660-665. DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2015.1080619 .

Harris, L., Phartiyal, J., Scott, D. and M. Peloso (2015) Women Talking about Water: Feminist Subjectivities and Intersectional Understandings. Canadian Women’s Studies Journal, Les Cahiers de la Femme, Special Issue on Women and Water, 30(2/3): 15-24

Harris, L. (2015). Scalar Politics, Networks and Power in Water Governance. In: E. Norman, C. Cook and A. Cohen (Eds) Negotiating Water Governance: Why the Politics of Scale Matter, Ashgate: pp. 226-250.

Dunn, G., Harris, L. and K. Bakker (2015). Microbial Risk Governance: Challenges and Opportunities in Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal 40(3): 273-249

Harris, L. (2015) Hegemonic Water and Rethinking Natures Otherwise. In: W. Harcourt and I. L. Nelson (Eds) Practicing Feminist Political Ecologies. Zed Books: London, pp. 157-181.

Harris, L. (2015). Foreword. In: S. Buechler, A-M S. Hanson (Eds) A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change. Routledge: London

Harris, L. (2015) Deconstructing the Map after 25 Years: Furthering Engagements with Social Theory. Cartographica 50(1): 50-53

Morales M, Harris L., and G. Öberg (2014) Citizenshit: the right to flush and the urban sanitation imaginary. Environment and Planning A, 46(12): 2816 – 2833.

Morinville, C. and L. M. Harris. (2014) Participation, politics, and panaceas: exploring the possibilities and limits of participatory urban water governance in Accra, Ghana. Ecology and Society 19 (3): 36. [online].

Morales, M. & L. Harris (2014). Using Subjectivity and Emotion ro Reconsider Participatory Natural Resource Management. World Development 64(2014): 703-712.

Dunn, G., Bakker, K., & L. Harris (2014). Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 11, 4634-4651.

Harris, L. (2014). Imaginative Geographies of Green: Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in Environmental Narratives in Contemporary Turkey. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104 (2): 801-815.

Dunn, G., Henrich, N., Holmes, B., Harris, L. & N. Prystajecky (2014). Microbial water quality communication: public and practitioner insights from British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Water and Health, 12(3): 584–595.

Kleiber, D., Harris, L.M., & A. Vincent (2014). Gender and small-scale fisheries: a case for counting women and beyond. Fish and Fisheries, Feb 2014 Early View.

Kleiber, D., Harris, L. M., & A.C.J. Vincent (2014). Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Online. 1139/cjfas-2013-0177

Cohen, A. & L. Harris (2014). Performing Scale: Watersheds as “Natural” Governance Units in the Canadian Context. In: M.R. Glass & R. Rose-Redwood, Eds (2014). Perfomativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space. New York and London: Routledge.

Harris, L. and M. Islar. (2014). Neoliberalism, Nature and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey. In: Atasoy, Y., Ed. (2014). Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity. London and New York, Palgrave MacMillan

Dunn, G., Harris, L., Cook, K. & N. Prystajecky. (2014). A comparative analysis of current microbial water quality risk assessment and management practices in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. Science of the Total Environment, 458-469(2014): 544-552.

Harris, L. (2013). Elements of Feminist Political Ecology and Capabilities. In J. Goldin (Ed). Water and Capabilities Special Issue. E-bulletin of the Human Development and Capability Association (December 2013).

Harris, L. & M. C. Roa-García. (2013).Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012). Geoforum 50: 20-30.

Harris, L.M., J.A. Goldin, and C. Sneddon (Eds.) (2013). Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation. London, UK: Routledge.

Harris, L. & C. Morinville (2013). Improving Participatory Water Governance in Accra, Ghana. Africa Initiative Policy Brief No. 7, CIGI Africa Initiative Policy Brief Series.

Harris, L. (2012). State as Socionatural Effect: Variable and Emergent Geographies of the State in Southeastern Turkey. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32(1), 25-39.

Mirosa, O. and L. Harris. (2011). Human Right to Water: Contemporary Challenges and Contours of a Global Debate. Antipode, 44 (3), 932-949.

Hawkins, R., and D. Ojeda with K. Asher, B. Baptiste, L. Harris, S. Mellott, A. Nightingale, D. Rocheleau, J. Seager and F. Sultana. (2011). Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(2011), 237-253.

Harris, L. (2011). (Neo)Liberal Citizens of Europe: Politics, Scales, and Visibilities of Environmental Citizenship in Contemporary Turkey. Citizenship Studies 15(6-7), 837-859.

Harris, L. and S. Alatout. (2010). Negotiating Hydro-Scales, Forging States: Comparison of the Upper Tigris/Euphrates and Jordan River Basins. Political Geography 29, 148 – 156.

Harris, L. (2009). States at the Limit: Tracing Evolving State-Society Relations in the Borderlands of Southeastern Turkey. EJTS: European Journal of Turkish Studies 10 [online].

Harris, L. (2009). Contested Sustainabilities: Assessing Narratives of Environmental Change in Southeastern Turkey. Local Environment 14(8), 699-720.

Harris, L. and H. Hazen. (2009). “Rethinking Maps from a More-than-Human Perspective: Nature-Society, Mapping, and Conservation Territories.” in C. Perkins, M. Dodge, and R. Kitchin (eds). Rethinking Maps: New Frontiers in Cartographic Theory. Routledge, 50-67.

Harris, L. (2009). Gender and Emergent Water Governance: Comparative Overview of Neoliberalized Natures and Gender Dimensions of Privatization, Devolution and Marketization Gender. Place and Culture 16 (4): 387-408.

Harris. L. (2008). Water Rich, Resource Poor: Intersections of Gender, Poverty, and Vulnerability in Newly Irrigated Areas of Southeastern Turkey. World Development 36(12): 2643-2662.

Harris, L. (2008). Modernizing the Nation. Postcolonialism, Postdevelopment, and Ambivalent Spaces of Difference in Southeastern Turkey. Geoforum 39: 1698-1708. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Hazen, H. and Harris, L. (2007). Limits of territorially-focused conservation: A critical assessment based on cartographic and geographic approaches. Environmental Conservation 35(1): 1-11. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Harris, L. (2006). Irrigation, Gender, and Social Geographies of the Changing Waterscape in Southeastern Anatolia. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 24 (2): 187–213. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Harris, L. and Hazen, H. (2006). Power of Maps: (Counter)-mapping for Conservation. Acme International E-journal of Critical Geographies. 4(1): 99-130. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Harris, L. and Harrower, M. (2006). Critical Interventions and Lingering Concerns: Critical Cartography/GISci, Social Theory, and Alternative Possible Futures. Acme International E-journal of Critical Geographies. 4(1): 1-10. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Harris, L. and Atalan, N. (2002/2004). Developing Women’s Spaces: Evaluation of the Importance of Sex-segregated Spaces for Gender and Development Goals in Southeastern Turkey. Kadin/Woman 2000. 3(2): 17-46. Preprint PDF of the article here.

Steven Conrad

Adjunct Professor

Contact Details

http://stevenconrad.ca/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveaconrad/

Research Interests

Bio

Steve is a scientist and resource manager with over 25 years research, industry, and policy experience. Steve is noted for his work and leadership on decision sciences and systems engineering through his behavioural and complex system modelling research centred on water, energy, and food systems, climate change adaptation, and resilient urban infrastructure. His current research interests focus on the feedbacks between human-environmental systems through the coupling of social and engineering sciences to inform decision making and incorporate the water-energy nexus, water and energy urban system planning and operations, machine learning techniques for autonomous system operations, distributed water and energy generation and recovery, decision support for climate change adaptation, behavioural models of individual choices affecting water and energy use, and coupled socio-hydrological and systems dynamic modelling.

Steve joins the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability from Simon Fraser University where he was the Associate Director of the Pacific Water Research Centre and chair of the REM Water Research group. Steve is serving as the Interim Chair for the UBC Future Waters Research Excellence Cluster. Steve also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the BC Water and Waste Association, having formally represented the BC Section on the board of the American Water Works Association, chaired the BCWWA’s climate change committee and co-chairing the BCWWA’s Risk and Resiliency committee.

Steve holds a PhD in Resource and Environmental Management from Simon Fraser University, a MSc in Environmental Technology Management from Arizona State University, and a BSc in Psychology and BSc in Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Projects

Courses

Featured Publications

Strazzabosco, A., Conrad, S., Kenway, S., Lant, P., (under review). “Expert opinion on influential factors driving renewable energy adoption in the water industry: An Australian study.” Renewable Energy

Conrad, S., Pipher, J., Haider, W. (2019) “How current lawn attributes affect the preferences of water conserving lawn options: An individualized choice experiment in Kelowna, British Columbia.” Landscape and Urban Planning. 193, 147-156.

Kenway, S.J., Conrad, S.A., Jawad, M., Gledhill, J., Bravo, R., McCalley, J., Strazzabosco, A., Howe, C., (2019). Opportunities and Barriers for Renewable and Distributed Energy Resource Development at Drinking Water and Wastewater Utilities (No. 4625). Water Research Foundation, Denver, CO.

Conrad, S., 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.

Conrad, S.A., Rutherford, M.B., Haider, W. (2017). Profiling Farmers’ Preferences about Drought Response Policies Using a Choice Experiment in the Okanagan Basin, Canada. Water Resources Management 31, 2837–2851.

Conrad, S. (2017). Amalgamating Local Data to Inform Water Related Decisions: Summary Report. Burnaby, BC: Pacific Water Research Centre, Simon Fraser University.

Conrad, S., Kenway, S., Jawad, M. (2017). Water and Electric Utility Integrated Planning. Denver, CO: Water Research Foundation.

Conrad, S. (2016). Introduction: Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products. London, ON: Firefly Publishing

Kenway S., McMahon J., Elmer V., Conrad S., Rosenblum J. (2013). “Managing water-related energy in future cities – A research and policy roadmap”. Journal of Water and Climate Change. 4 (3): 161-175.

Conrad, S., Olson, E. Raucher, S., Smith, J. (2013) Opportunities for Managing Climate Change by Applying Adaptive Management. Denver, CO: Water Research Foundation.

Conrad, S. (2013). Assessing Water Use Preferences to Water Conservation Policy and Implementation Strategies. Victoria, BC: Simon Fraser University & Investment Agriculture Foundation of British Columbia.

Conrad, S. (2012) “Decision support for the water-energy nexus: examining decision-making in the American west”, in Kenney, D. (2012) The Water-Energy Nexus in the American West.

Conrad, S. (2012). Assessing the effectiveness of climate change adaptation policies: a survey of residential preferences. Ottawa, ON. Natural Resources Canada.

Conrad, S., Geisenhoff, J., Brueck, T., Hall, M., Cook, S., Kenway, S., et al. (2011). Decision support system for sustainable energy management. Denver, CO: Water Research Foundation.

Conrad, S., Hall, M., Cook, S. (2010) “Key Energy Decisions for Sustainable Utility Energy Management”, Water Science & Technology: Water Supply, 10 (5): 721–729

Conrad, S. (2010) “Energy and Greenhouse Gas Management Options in the Water Utility Sector” in Welch, C. The Green Utility: A Practical Guide to Sustainability, Denver, CO: American Water Works Association Publishing.

Hamed Shakouri

Previous Visiting Professor

Contact Details

Phone: 778 668 9794

Email: h.shakouri@gmail.com

Website: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/hamed-shakouri/

Bio

Hamed Shakouri Ganjavi received his MSc from Sharif University of Technology and his PhD from Amirkabir University of Technology in Power Systems and Control Systems Engineering. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Tehran since 2005. His main field of interest is economic and environmental aspects of energy systems. He has been a Visiting Professor with IRES for 2 years, and has published papers as outcomes of research projects in assessments of energy systems, energy planning and renewable energies.

IRES Visiting Professor terms: September 2012 to August 2013 and June 2014 to July 2015

Phone: 778 668 9794

Email: h.shakouri@gmail.com

Website: https://ires.ubc.ca/person/hamed-shakouri/

Villy Christensen

Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Associate Member, Department of Zoology

Bio

Villy Christensen is appointed in IoF, not at IRES, and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. He may supervise students in our RES graduate program.

http://oceans.ubc.ca/villy-christensen/

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/villy-christensen

Andrew Trites

Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Associate Member, Department of Zoology Director, Marine Mammal Research Unit

Contact Details

http://oceans.ubc.ca/andrew-trites/?login?login http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/trites

Bio

Andrew Trites is not appointed at IRES and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. Please see appointments in left-hand column.

https://oceans.ubc.ca/andrew-trites

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/andrew-trites

http://mmru.ubc.ca/personnel/trites/

M.V. Ramana

Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Professor, International Relations Program
Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security

Contact Details

Liu Institute for Global Issues Room 313
6476 Northwest Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

m.v.ramana@ubc.ca

https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/m-v-ramana/

Research Interests

Energy policy, Nuclear energy, Nuclear weapons and disarmament

Bio

M.V. Ramana is appointed SPPGA, not at IRES, and instead is a Faculty Associate of our unit. He may supervise students in our graduate program.

M. V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). His research interests are in the broad areas of international security and energy supply, with a particular focus on topics related to nuclear energy and fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons. He combines technical skills and interdisciplinary methods to address policy relevant questions related to security and energy issues.

https://sppga.ubc.ca/profile/m-v-ramana/

https://ir.arts.ubc.ca/person/m-v-ramana

Amanda Giang

Assistant Professor, IRES
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair (T2, Environmental Modelling for Policy)

Contact Details

AERL Building Room 434
2202 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada

amanda.giang[at]ubc.ca

Personal website

Research group website

Google Scholar

Research Interests

Climate change, Economic evaluation/analysis, Energy, Environment, Policy and Decision-making, Science-policy interface, Sustainability, Technology

Bio

Amanda Giang is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research addresses challenges at the interface of environmental modelling and policy through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on air pollution and toxic chemicals. She is interested in understanding how modelling and data analytics can better empower communities and inform policy decision-making. Current projects in her research group include developing digital tools to better understand and respond to environmental injustice in Canada, evaluating the impacts of technology and policy on air quality, and exploring how different kinds of knowledge are used in environmental assessment processes.

Projects

Click on each project below to view relevant papers.

Air quality and environmental justice in Canada

Giang, A., Boyd, D.R. §, Ono, A.J. and McIlroy-Young, B., 2022. Exposure, access, and inequities: Central themes, emerging trends, and key gaps in Canadian environmental justice literature from 2006 to 2017. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géograpje canadien. 66(3), pp.434-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12754

Gardner-Frolick, R., Boyd, D.R. and Giang, A., 2022. Selecting Data Analytic and Modeling Methods to Support Air Pollution and Environmental Justice Investigations: A Critical Review and Guidance Framework. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(5), pp. 2843-2860. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01739

de Ferreyro Monticelli, D., Bhandari, S., Eykelbosh, A., Henderson, S.B., Giang, A., Zimmerman N., 2022. Cannabis Cultivation Facilities: A Review of Their Air Quality Impacts from the Occupational to Community Scale. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06372

Giang, A. and Castellani, K., 2020. Cumulative air pollution indicators highlight unique patterns of injustice in urban Canada. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), p.124063. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcac5

Evaluating the role of climate change and infrastructure design on the fate and transport of toxic pollutants

Rodgers, T. , Wang, Y. §, Humes, C., Jeronimo, M., Johannessen, C., Spraakman, S., Giang, A., Scholes, R. 2023. Bioretention cells provide a tenfold reduction in 6PPD-quinone mass loadings to receiving waters: Evidence from a field experiment and modeling. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 10(7), pp. 582-588. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00203

Rodgers, T., Giang, A., Diamond, M., Gillies, E., Saini, A. 2023. Emissions and Fate of Organophosphate Esters in Outdoor Urban Environments. Nature Communications, 14:1175. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36455-7

Li, M., Gillies, E.J., Briner, R., Hoover, C.A., Sora, K.J., Loseto, L.L., Walters, W.J., Cheung, W. and Giang, A., 2022. Investigating the dynamics of methylmercury bioaccumulation in the Beaufort Sea Shelf food web: a modeling perspective. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts. 24(7), pp.1010-1025. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00108J

Air quality, climate, and health impacts of energy transitions – technology, policy, and process

Laskar, I.I., Giang, A. 2023. Mitigation of in-use methane emissions from natural gas-powered shipping: A policy analysis. Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 3:025005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/accf33

Chakraborty, M., Giang, A. and Zimmerman, N. 2023. Performance evaluation of portable dual-spot micro-aethalometers for source identification of Black Carbon aerosols: Application to wildfire smoke and traffic emissions in the Pacific Northwest. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16:2333-2352. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-2333-2023

Barnard-Chumik, H., Cappe, N. and Giang, A., 2022. Knowledge Hierarchy and Mechanisms of Power in Environmental Impact Assessment: Insights from the Muskrat Falls Hydroelectric Project. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien. 66(3), pp.462-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12758

*Rossa-Roccor, V., Giang, A., Kershaw P., 2021. Framing climate change as a human health issue – enough to tip the scale in climate policy? The Lancet Planetary Health, Viewpoint, 5(8), e553-e559. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00113-3

Scholarship of teaching and learning on interdisciplinary sustainability research training

Elder, S., Wittman, H., Giang, A. 2023. Building sustainability research competencies through scaffolded pathways for undergraduate research experience. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11:1. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00091

Ramachandran, A., Abdi, K., Giang, A., Gladwin, D., Ellis, N. Collaborative Research Training in Higher Education: An Exploratory Canadian Case Study. Higher Education, Published Online October 24, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2134312

Ramachandran, A., Abdi, K., Giang, A., Gladwin, D. and Ellis, N., 2022. Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary programmes for collaborative graduate research training. Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2022.2134312

Courses

ENVR 410 Energy, Environment, and Society

RES 520 Climate Change, Science, Technology, and Sustainable Development

CEEN 525 Energy Policy