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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…

"A major question for Kyoto signatory nations such as Canada is what role our forests might play in meeting our greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments. The most important greenhouse gas affected by human activity is carbon dioxide (CO…

"Bioenergy, or energy derived from biomass, was the predominant energy source for humans from prehistory to the mid-19th century. With on-going energy security issues, rising greenhouse-gas (GHG) levels driven by fossil fuel energy consumption…

"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…