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The shortcomings of public health research informed by reductionist and fragmented biomedical approaches and the emergence of wicked problems are fueling a renewed interest in ecological approaches in public health. Despite the central role of…

"Complex systems science provides an inter-disciplinary framework for understanding and responding to global change phenomena. It seeks to understand the behaviour of whole systems and provides a common language and a suite of analytical tools…

This report is meant to summarize the results of a survey of UNBC faculty undertaken in 2016. Researchers from three institutions (Nipissing University, Royal Roads University and the University of Northern British Columbia) collaborated on this…

Tl'azt'en Nation, a Canadian indigenous community that became an early participant in industrial commercial forestry. In doing so, T'azt'en Nation encountered challenges that reverberate today for indigenous peoples seeking…

"Access to clean and safe drinking water is a matter of life and death in rural Uganda. Many villagers do not have access to this basic resource and are forced to consume water unfit for human consumption. As a result, many suffer from serious…

"The wetter subzones of the Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) zone are naturally dominated by old forests in which trees regenerate and grow in small gaps in the forest canopy. Increased interest in ecosystem-based management has led to interest in…

"Recognizing that each additional disturbance in a region can represent a high marginal cost to the environment, there is an increasing awareness of the need to better assess and manage cumulative environmental effects. Yet, cumulative effects…

"There is a great demand for the inclusion of berry-producing plants, such as wild blueberries or huckleberries (Vaccinium species), in forest restoration and post-industrial reclamation efforts, due to their value to wildlife and traditional…

"The report and its supplementary databases were initially prepared for FFESC in March 2009 to (1) identify institutional arrangements for delivering climate change adaptation research and making the results available to stakeholders, (2)…

This article highlights contributions that can be made to the public health field by incorporating “ecosystem approaches to health” to tackle future environmental and health challenges at a regional level. This qualitative research reviews attitudes…

"Prescribed fire is used as a management tool to enhance ungulate habitats. In northeastern British Columbia, up to 7,800 ha are burned annually. Yet relatively few studies have quantified the role of fire on plant and animal response, and…

"As part of an industry/academic/Canadian Wildlife Service partnership to assess the effects of wind energy development on avian movement patterns and collision risk, we used visual observations and radars to track the avian migrants at the…