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Bakker

Karen

Arts

French, Spanish

Environment, Geography, Water

water, environment, privatization, environmental governance, environmental management

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Berg

Lawrence

Barber School of Arts and Sciences

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Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Culture, Disabled Persons, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Geography, Health Care, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, New Zealand, Racism/Race Relations, Sex/Sexuality, Women's Issues

aboriginal rights, citizenship, ,cultural politics of identity, disabilities, ethnicity, geography, Maori identities, gender, masculinities, race and racism, whiteness.

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Christen

Andreas

Arts

German

Environment, Geography, Pollution, Science, Sustainability, Water, Weather

urban meterology; weather and cities, climate change and cities, atmospheric dispersion, flow and dispersion in urban environments, carbon flows, carbon emissions in cities, water use in cities, air pollution meteorology.

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Church

Michael

Arts

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Environment, Geography

rivers, Fraser River, sediment transport, river erosion, water

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Cohen

Stewart

Forestry

French

Environment, Geography, Water

climate change (global warming)

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Corbett

Jon

Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Bahasa Indonesia

Communications, Geography

mapping, cartography, participatory mapping, community mapping, participatory GIS, geoweb, participatory geoweb

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Daniels

Lori

Arts

Spanish

Canada, Environment, Forestry, Geography, Natural Resources, Plants, Science, South America, Sustainability

forest plants and trees; forest history; forest management; environmental protection and natural resource use

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Denike

Ken

Arts

-

Education, Geography, Transportation

transportation issues, retail (location analysis), medical geography

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Dollinger

Stefan

Arts

German

Canada, English as a Second Language, Europe, Geography, History, Language, United States

English language, Canadian English, Canada, North America, English, American English, sociolinguistics, society and language, dialects, identity, history of English, dictionary

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Donner

Simon

Arts

-

Agriculture, Environment, Geography, Water

climate change, environmental policy, coral reefs, aquatic ecology, agricultural pollution, land use change, biofuels, sustainability, science communication

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Edgington

David

Arts

Japanese

Asian Affairs, Australia, Economics, Geography, Japan, Multiculturalism, Urban Planning, Olympics

Japanaese economy; Japan-Canada trade and investment links; Pacific Rim trade and investment patterns; Japanese cities and regions; Multiculturalism and Local Government in Vancouver; Australia

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Flanders

David

Forestry

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Aboriginal Issues, Agriculture, Architecture, Community Planning, Environment, Forestry, Geography, Mining, Natural Resources, Science, South America, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

Landscape planning, community planning, landscape architecture, urban planning, climate change, urban design, GIS, geography, forestry, energy, carbon, natural resources management, adaptation, sustainability, resilience

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Gregory

Derek

Arts

-

Geography, Middle East

Wars in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq, Israel/Palestine, drone wars, counterinsurgency, air war and bombing, war

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Grimm

Kurt

Science

Spanish

Aboriginal Issues, Addictions, Advertising, Aquaculture, Culture, Earthquakes, Education, Environment, Geography, Geology, Mental Health, Natural Resources, Oceanography, Science

Sustainability, sustainability sciences; Earth system science; climate change, global change, Gaia theory, transformative education, sedimentology, Earth's environment, evolution, deep ecology, social justice, ecological justice, Earth-centred spirituality, consumerism, culture, addiction,

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Henry

Greg

Arts

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Biology, Canada, Environment, Geography, Plants, Science, Wildlife

Arctic tundra ecosystems, climate change in the Arctic, warming experiments, caribou and muskox populations, reconstruction of Arctic climate, treeline, the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), ArcticNet, the International Polar Year (IPY)

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Hsing

You-tien

Arts

Mandarin

Asian Affairs, China, Commerce, Geography, Politics, Taiwan, Trade, Urban Planning

Taiwan; trade; politics

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Klinkenberg

Brian

Arts

-

Environment, Geography, Plants

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, cartography, endangered species (plants), conservation biology, spatial analysis, health geography

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Koppes

Michele

Arts

French

Earthquakes, Environment, Geography, India, Oceanography, Science, Water

climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions

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Krug

Don

Education

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Computers, Computers in Education, Culture, Education, Environment, Ethics, Fine Arts, Geography, Human Rights, Internet, Literacy, Multiculturalism, Research and Development, Sociology, Sustainability, Teaching, Technology, Telecommunications

teaching, learning, and social networking, media literacies, information and communication technologies and education, knowledge mobilization, cognition, formal and informal learning space design, cultural studies and rich media, sustainability and ecological literacy

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Laquian

Aprodicio

Community and Regional Planning

Pilipino

Abortion, Addictions, Anthropology, Architecture, Asian Affairs, China, Community Planning, Crime, Culture, Environment, Geography, Government, Health Care, History, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, International Studies, Management, Multiculturalism, Politics, Pollution, Racism/Race Relations, Third World, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

planning and governance of metropolitan areas, poverty alleviation, affordable housing, urban development in Asia with special focus on China, India,Vietnam, the Philippines, inner city redevelopment with focus on Vancouver's Down Town East Side, how to solve problems of slums in developing countries

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Le Billon

Philippe

Graduate Studies

French

Africa, Business, Defence, Geography, Human Rights, Middle East, Mining, Natural Resources, Third World

armed conflicts; civil war; extractive industries; corporate responsibility; Angola; Sierra Leone; DR Congo; Cambodia; Iraq

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Meitner

Michael

Forestry

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Computers, Environment, Forestry, Geography, Human Behavior, Internet, Natural Resources, Psychology, Stress, Sustainability, Technology

forest aesthetics and scenic beauty, outdoor recreation, environmental visualization, geographic information systems, visual perception, agent-based modeling

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Peck

Jamie

Arts

-

Culture, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Urban Planning, Work

creative cities, urban policy, labour market and welfare programs, temporary employment, outsourcing

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Ritland

Kermit

Forestry

-

Geography, Weather

genomics, statistical genetics

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Rouse

Robert

Arts

-

Culture, Europe, Geography, History, Law, Literacy, Literature, Middle East, Multiculturalism, New Zealand, Racism/Race Relations, Sex/Sexuality

medieval, crusades, Chaucer, middle ages, monsters, medieval islam, medieval maps, medieval sexuality, spatial theory, historical racism, medieval law, arthurian literature,

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Russell

James

Arts

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Archaeology, Architecture, Classical Studies, Europe, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Language, Literature, Middle East, Olympics, Religion, Russia/Eastern Europe

old world, Iron Age, Celtic, classical Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, archaeology,architecture, ancient Roman daily life and culture;Roman military organization early Christianity; magic in antiquity; Greek and Roman inscriptions and coins; Scottish and Irish archaeology; old world and classical architecture, archaeology and culture with emphasis on Western Europe and Middle East; Celtic (especially Ireland and Scotland); Greek and Roman, classical and Byzantine; Latin, Greek, Lallans and lowland Scots; Scottish literature; Robert Burns; Scottish poetry generally; ancient through early Islam, especially Turkey; Eastern Europe

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Slaymaker

Olav

Arts

Norwegian

Environment, Geography, Sustainability, Water

mountain environments; global environmental change; geomorphology; British Columbia; natural hazards

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Weiler

Markus

Forestry

German

Environment, Forestry, Geography, Natural Resources, Sustainability, Water, Weather

hydrology, watershed, rivers, floods, climate change, soil science, tracer, pollutants, water quality, solute transport, snow, wireless sensors, sediment transport

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White

Melissa Autumn

-

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Canada, Environment, Families, Free Trade, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Geography, Human Rights, Immigration, International Studies, Multiculturalism, Politics, Racism/Race Relations, Sex/Sexuality, Sociology, Third World, Tourism, United States, Urban Planning, Women's Issues, Work

LGBTQ migration and asylum; human rights; sexual and gender minority rights; globalization; transnationalism; geopolitics; Canadian immigration policy; critical security studies; Canadian foreign policy as it pertains to gender and sexual minorities and women; race and racism.

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