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Associate Professor, Contemporary Studies and Geography
Areas of Expertise: Technological and natural hazards and risks
Climate change adaptation
Environmental justice
Rural resiliency
Maple syrup
Blackout
Nuclear fuel waste management
Walkerton tragedy
Tornado in Pine Lake, AB
Biography: Dr. Brenda L. Murphy is an associate professor of Geography and Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus. She studies risk and resilience issues within the context of small, rural and remote communities and spaces. …
Areas of Expertise: Human dimensions of environmental change, climate change
Building capacity for climate change adaptation
Strategies to improve environmental governance
Marine, ocean change and relationships with society
Biography: Derek Armitage is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Associate Faculty of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Associate of the Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.…
Areas of Expertise: Natural resources policy;
Environmental policy;
Climate change adaptation;
Forest management;
Canadian forest industry;
British Columbia
Biography: Kevin Hannas research centres on integrated approaches to natural
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