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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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)
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...
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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Lim, Jim

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomass and fossil fuels, Hydrogen production

Lin, Li-Wen

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Corporate social responsibility

Lindsey, Charles

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Traffic congestion; Road pricing; Financing transportation infrastructure; Public transit; Advanced traveler information systems

Lister, Jane

Sauder School of Business (Vancouver)
Commerce and Business Administration
Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Governance; Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Liston, Mary

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Administrative law and public law, Legal Theory, law and literature, law and politics, immigration/refugee/citizenship law, Rule of law, Comparative public law

Liu, Wenying

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Materials Engineering
Use of sea water in heap leaching, release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials, heap leach modelling

Liu, Jian

Engineering (Okanagan)
energy storage technologies, including for electric vehicles

Liu, Zheng

Engineering (Okanagan)

Lokman, Kees

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Design challenges related to water and food shortages; depleting energy resources; climate change; ongoing urbanization

Loo, Tina

Arts (Vancouver)
History
Environmental history of Canada

Lovato, Chris

Medicine (Vancouver)
School of Population and Public Health
Health promotion, population health and program evaluation, impact of health programs and policies, particularly in the areas of cancer prevention and health services

Lovegrove, Gordon

Engineering (Okanagan)
sustainable community planning and design, sustainable transport and safety,

Low, Maggie

Applied Science (Vancouver)
School of Community and Regional Planning
Indigenous-state relations, Indigenous community planning, Indigenous-led reconciliation efforts, Indigenous sovereignty and jurisdiction; Environmentalism and climate change, public sector innovation labs

Lue, Zheng

Engineering (Okanagan)
Intelligent sensing in infrastructure systems

Lund, Adam

Medicine (Vancouver)
Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine, Mass Gathering Health, Mass Gathering Medicine. Health determinants, the public health and emergency response angles related to electronic dance music events, studying sports medicine, including endurance runs and triathlons, systems issues in terms of understanding the impacts on the host community when a mass gathering is held in a community.

Lyon, John

FASS (Okanagan)
CCGS
Interior Salish language revitalization and linguistics

MacDougall, Bruce

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Sexual Orientation and the Law

Macfarlane, Allison

Arts (Vancouver)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Technical, social, and policy aspects of nuclear energy production and nuclear waste management and disposal as well as regulation, nuclear nonproliferation, and energy policy;

Macintyre Latta, Margaret

Education (Okanagan)
pedagogical relationships, curriculum as lived in classrooms,

MacLachlan, Mark

Science (Vancouver)
Chemistry
Developing new organic and inorganic materials with interesting properties that may find applications in electronics, photonics, catalysis, and other applications; Some of our projects are aimed a combating environmental problems or improving alternative energy applications, such as solar energy conversion and hydrogen fuel cells

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