With over 400 faculty investigating sustainability-related topics at UBC, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve curated a list of researchers with expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

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Ritland, Kermit

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre; cofounder of Treenomix (a foundation of genomics knowledge; promotes forest health and sustainable forest stewardship for future generations)
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Mawani, Renisa

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory; Race and Racism; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Focused on global food production, climate change, and forms of war, this project draws from anticolonial...

Sheppard, Stephen

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; low-carbon future scenarios visualized...

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Groat, Lee

Science (Vancouver)
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Mineralogy; acid mine drainage potential; natural acid rock drainage; mine wastes and neutralization potential

https://www.eoas.ubc.ca/people/leegroat

Guhn, Martin

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Social determinants of developmental health; social and cultural community and neighborhood effects on child development

https://www.spph.ubc.ca/person/martin-guhn/

Gulati, Sumeet

Land and Food Systems (Vancouver)
Land and Food Systems
The Economics of Urban Transportation; The Effectiveness of Carbon Taxes; The Effectiveness of Environmental Policy; The Economics of Human Wildlife Conflict; The Political Economy of Environmental and Trade Policy; International Trade and its Effect on the Environment.

https://www.landfood.ubc.ca/sumeet-gulati/

Guppy, Neil

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Social inequality; Social Change and the Gendered Division of Household Labour; Canada’s Gender Equity Revolution

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/neil-guppy/

Gurstein, Penny

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Socio-cultural aspects of community planning with particular emphasis on those who are the most marginalized in planning processes; developing strategies and interventions that encourage diversity, equity and urban sustainability in the planning and design of communities; affordable homeownership and rental housing

https://scarp.ubc.ca/people/penny-gurstein

Guy, Robert

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Climate change, ecology, forest biology, genomics, plant physiology, Forest regeneration and stock quality

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/robert-guy

Gyenge, Elod

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alternative energy sources (fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors), pollution control of gaseous (e.g. CO2, NOx) and liquid effluents and environmentally more sustainable chemical process development (e.g. the electrosynthesis alternative to conventional thermochemical processes).

https://www.chbe.ubc.ca/profile/elod-gyenge/

Hagerman, Shannon

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Environmental Values; Politics of Knowledge; Social-Ecological Systems; Human-Dimensions of Conservation; Environmental Decision-Making and Policy; Climate Change Adaptation

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/shannon-hagerman

Hamelin, Richard

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Forest pathology; using genetic and genomic approaches to better understand forest disease epidemics

https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/richard-hamelin

Han, Lengyi

FoS (Okanagan)
CMPS
environmental analytics

https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/lengyi-han/

Haney, Cara

Science (Vancouver)
Michael Smith Laboratories
Biochemistry, biotechnology, bioinformatics, biological imaging, genomics, immunology, systems biology, evolution, infectious disease, microbiome, agriculture, microbial pathogenesis, plant biology, food security

https://www.msl.ubc.ca/people/dr-cara-haney/

Hanna, Kevin

FoS (Okanagan)
EEGS
Environmental impact assessment; natural resources management; energy and mining development.

https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/kevin-hanna/

Hanser, Amy

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Gender; consumption/consumerism; inequality

https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/amy-hanser/

Hardisty, David

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Consumer behaviour, sustainability, energy efficiency, decisions about the future

https://www.sauder.ubc.ca/people/david-hardisty

Hare, Jan

Education (Vancouver)
Language and Literacy Education
Aboriginal youth mobility, Aboriginal family and community perspectives on early literacy, literature, identity construction and urban Aboriginal youth, Cultural studies, early childhood, first nations education

https://lled.educ.ubc.ca/profiles/jan-hare/

Hargreaves, Allison

FCCS (Okanagan)
English and Cultural Studies
Indigenous literatures and theory, critical settler colonial studies, place-based approaches, decolonization and reconciliation

https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/allison-hargreaves/

Harley, Christopher

Science (Vancouver)
Zoology
Community ecology, climate change

https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/person/christopher-harley

Harris, Douglas

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
History of the regulation of the Aboriginal fisheries in British Columbia; Aboriginal rights to fish in Canada; Aboriginal law and legal history

https://allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our-people/douglas-harris

Harris, Leila

Science (Vancouver)
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Drinking Water, Fresh Water, Water, Resources Management, Development Policies, International Development, Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection, Social Contract and Social Justice; water politics, water governance, Environmental justice, gender and social difference, equity and social justice, participatory resource management, Turkey and Middle East, Africa , Ghana, South Africa

http://ires.ubc.ca/person/leila-harris/

Harris, Mark

Arts (Vancouver)
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Indigenous rights in relation to cultural heritage, land claims, the stolen generations, intellectual property and criminal justice issues.

https://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/person/mark-harris/

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