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Operational Hub
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Rob Kozak, PhD
FACT Director
rob.kozak@ubc.ca
Rob Kozak is a Professor at the UBC Faculty of Forestry and is the Director of FACT. His current research and teaching interests revolve around sustainable business management practices and issues and providing business-based solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products and the emerging conservation economy. Currently, his work focuses on the wellbeing of forest-dependent communities, international development and poverty alleviation strategies, forest certification, corporate social responsibility, and forest sector sustainability and competitiveness.
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Erin McGuigan
FACT Managing Director
erin.mcguigan@ubc.ca
Erin McGuigan is the Managing Director of FACT and a Ph.D. Candidate. She specializes in qualitative and participatory social research and has worked with a number of communities throughout British Columbia. Her current research focuses on sustainability, impact assessment and community engagement. She is also an online editor for the Canadian Rural Research Network.
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Reem Hajjar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
reem.hajjar@gmail.com
Reem Hajjar is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, UBC. Her research and teaching interests focus on community-based forest management, and in recent work she has looked at power imbalances, challenges communities face in managing their forests and maintaing forest-based enterprises, bottom-up approaches to community forestry initiatives in developing countries, promoting community forestry as part of national REDD+ strategies, and community and smallholder forest certification. She’s currently working on a project to assess levels of acceptability of seed selection strategies for forest adaptation to climate change in rural communities in BC and Alberta.
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Mariko Molander
Workshop Coordinator
marikomolander@gmail.com
Mariko is a graduate student in the Faculty of Forestry and is currently studying community forestry in Canada and Central Africa with a focus on globalization, land rights issues, and the post-colonial state. She has a BA Hons from SFU and a BSF in Forest Resources Management from UBC, and is also interested in forest education for children and youth and volunteers her time to developing curriculum resources for urban and rural communities in BC.
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Molly Moshofsky, MSc Student
FACT Research Assistant
m.moshofsky@gmail.com
Molly Moshofsky was the Research Assistant for FACT from 2009 – 2011. She has a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation and is currently a Masters student in the UBC Faculty of Forestry. Her research focuses on communities, climate change and reforestation adaptation.
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FACT Lab
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The FACT Lab is made up of graduate students studying with Rob Kozak in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. Our research interests revolve around resource-dependent communities, well being of forest-dependent communities, international development and poverty alleviation strategies, forest certification, corporate social responsibility and forest sector sustainability and competitiveness. We conduct interdisciplinary research throughout the world.
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Ana Elia Ramon-Hidalgo, PhD Student
anaelia@interchange.ubc.ca
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Andrea Vasquez-Fernandez, MSc Student
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Antonia Barreau, MSc Student
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Erin McGuigan, PhD Candidate
erin.mcguigan@ubc.ca
Community sustainability, socio-economic impact assessment, cumulative impacts
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Justin Bull, PhD Candidate
jgbull@gmail.com
The environmental impact of media consumption: Comparing paper and pixels
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Kyle Hilsendager, PhD Student
kylewh@interchange.ubc.ca
Environmental and resource use conflicts in British Columbia and Tasmania
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Mariko Molander, MSc Student
mgmoland@interchange.ubc.ca
Aboriginal forestry, alternative business models
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Natalie Noel, PhD Candidate
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FACT Network
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Howie Harshaw, PhD
Research Associate
Howie is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC where he examines the human dimensions of natural resources. The focus of Howie’s research is outdoor recreation management and planning, and public participation in natural resources decision-making. Throughout his research, Howie has worked with communities, municipal and provincial governments, and industry to better represent the views and attitudes of the public in policy and operational decisions; working with these same groups, Howie has also helped to raise the profile of outdoor recreation issues and concerns with regard to broader land-use planning initiatives and strategies. Howie has contributed to the development and assessment of criteria and indicators for outdoor recreation in the planning of resource-integrated forested landscape planning in BC for government and the forest industry. Howie also plays an active role in undergraduate and graduate education in the Faculty of Forestry.
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Bill Bourgeois, PhD, RPF
President, New Direction Resource Management Ltd
Dr. Bill Bourgeois has invested over 35 years in improving forest land management in British Columbia. Bill has been a soil surveyor for the BC government, a terrain analyst, land use planning and research supervisor and a General Manager for a woodlands services division for MacMillan Bloedel, a Vice President for forest companies (Lignum Ltd, Riverside Forest Products) and an Associate with the Commission on Resources and Environment overseeing regional land use planning to end the “war in the woods.” Bill now consults through his own company New Direction Resource Management Ltd on natural resources sustainability issues. He provides services in strategic planning, government relations, First Nations partnerships and economic development, strategic land management planning, building collaborative arrangements and multi-discipline facilitation. As a consultant Bill has worked with NGOs, forest industry, tourism industry, First Nations, Government and the forest value-added sector. Bill continues to encourage change through publishing papers such as the application of EBM principles in BC forest management, a framework for the emerging forest resources sector and a rationale to focusing resource management on building community (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) resiliency.
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Joleen Timko, PhD
AFRICAD, Managing Director
Joleen Timko has focused on biodiversity conservation for fifteen years, with research and employment spanning both professional and disciplinary lines. She draws on a breadth of scholarly inquiry from both the natural and social sciences to understand how we can best balance social and ecological systems. Dr. Timko has worked professionally with national and provincial governments, ENGOs and civil society, and research institutions, and is an editor of the peer-reviewed open-access journal Madagascar Conservation & Development.
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Natalia Vidal, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Natalia Vidal has been doing research on sustainability, corporate responsibility, and forestry for more than 10 years. With a background in forestry, Natalia has dedicated her career to exploring the interconnections between society, the natural environment, and the marketplace. Her research has explored a broad array of topics including diffusion of responsible business practices, the use of markets to improve the livelihoods of forest dependent communities, and forest certification. Dr. Vidal has worked with research and non-governmental organizations in Canada, United States, Argentina, and Brazil. Natalia is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with University of San Diego where she is doing research on responsible and sustainable supply chains.
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