The Social team is responsible for studying the relationships of society to forests, and integrating social values into forest management. Society places diverse (and often conflicting) demands on forests and these frequently dominate management decisions. The challenge is to ensure that social objectives are identified and included in decision making and that these objectives are sustainable within biological, ecological, economic and climatic confines. The team is responsible for undergraduate teaching in the Natural Resources Conservation program, the Forest Resources Management program, the Landscape Architecture program, and for the graduate Forest & Society Program. Members of this team are also active in developing visualization methods, assessing landscape perceptions, and coordinating with GIS/remote sensing in the CALP/IRS studio.
Faculty
Michael Meitner
Environmental psychology
Stephen Sheppard
Landscape planning, visualisation
Climate change perceptions
David Tindall
Environmental sociology
Associated Research Links
Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning
First Nations Research, Faculty of Forestry
Geomatics at the University of B.C.
Landscape Architecture Program
Institute for Computing, Information Systems
Design Centre For Sustainability
Adjunct Faculty
Patrick Matakala, WWF, Zambia
Stewart Cohen, Environment Canada
Yong Yuan Yin, Environment Canada
Other
Howie Harshaw, Research Associate
Adelle Airey, Administrative Assistant (CALP)
Duncan Cavens, Post-Doctoral Fellow
David Flanders, Research Scientist
Ellen Pond, Research Scientist
Kristi Tatebe, Research Scientist
To view a current list of graduate students and publications, please click on the link of a faculty member listed above.
