With over 400 faculty investigating sustainability-related topics at UBC, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ve curated a list of researchers with expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

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Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre; cofounder of Treenomix (a foundation of genomics knowledge; promotes forest health and sustainable forest stewardship for future generations)
Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Colonial Legal History; Critical Theory; Race and Racism; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Focused on global food production, climate change, and forms of war, this project draws from anticolonial...
Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest Resources Management
Climate change planning, outreach, and community engagement; visioning methods and visualization of climate change causes, impacts, and mitigation/adaptation; low-carbon future scenarios visualized...

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Lauer, Sean

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Place Based Approaches to Strengthening Communities

Lauster, Nathanael

Arts (Vancouver)
Sociology
Housing justice and health; Housing; Urban; Immigration; Population; Environment;

Laval, Bernard

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Environmental Fluid Mechanics; water management; rehabilitation of lakes, mine tailings, the dispersion of nutrients and pollutants in lakes and coastal waters, movement of toxic materials in aquatic environments and more

Lavallee, Suzie

Forestry (Vancouver)
Forest and Conservation Sciences
How ecological pressures can shift the investment of resources in insects; experiential learning; impact of conservation and forest resources management on the livelihoods of people and the vast biodiversity of India

Lawrence, Gregory

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrodynamic stability and mixing, physical limnology, water quality management

Le Billon, Philippe

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Political geography, political ecology, and war studies; the links between natural resources and armed conflicts; the political economy of war and reconstruction; the resource curse; corruption; natural disasters; governance of extractive sectors, and food security

LeBaron, Michelle

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Cross-cultural conflict resolution; conflict across worldview differences; gender and conflict

Lee, Christopher

Arts (Vancouver)
Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies
Asian North American literatures and cultures, Asian diaspora studies, American Studies, race and ethnicity, aesthetic philosophy, critical theory

Lee, Jae-Hyeok

Science (Vancouver)
Botany
Genetic engineering of algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production.

Lee, Jongho

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering, Environmental Systems Engineering; Water/Wastewater Treatment, Desalination, Resource Harvesting, Nanoporous Media, Electrokinetics

Lehman, Darrin

Arts (Vancouver)
Psychology
Cross-cultural research; health psychology; coping with stressful life events; counterfactual thinking.

Lence, Barbara

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Optimizing design and operational strategies of water resources projects, reliable withdrawal-treatment strategies for contaminated groundwater supply systems, water distribution system operational procedures to meet hydraulic and water quality objectives

Lewis, Avi

Arts (Vancouver)
Geography
the climate emergency; social and political change; communication and documentary filmmaking

Leyton-Brown, Kevin

Science (Vancouver)
Computer Science
Computational problems in agriculture and development

Li, Eric

Management (Okanagan)
Management
Consumer culture; Social Innovation and social enterprise, Healthy living and well-being; Food consumption and food security; Digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of People (IoP); Social media marketing and consumption, Ethical consumerism and prosocial behaviour, Corporate philanthropy, Fashion marketing and consumption.

Li, Loretta

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Civil Engineering
Contaminated site investigation and management, environmental monitoring, risk and impact assessment, soil-contaminant interactions, mobility and migration of contaminants, remediation technology, mine tailings waste disposal and treatment processes

Li, Sunny

School of Engineering (Okanagan)
Mechanical Engineering
Enhanced Heat Transfer; Multiphase Flows; Aerosol (Airborne) Transmission; Electronics Cooling; Thermal-fluidics in Sustainable Energy Systems

Liao, Carol

Peter A. Allard School of Law (Vancouver)
Peter A. Allard School of Law
Corporate sustainability, social enterprise law, business ethics

Lightfoot, Sheryl

Arts (Vancouver)
Political Science | Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies
Global Indigenous peoples’ rights and politics, Indigenous diplomacy, social movements, and critical international relations

Lim, Jim

Applied Science (Vancouver)
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomass and fossil fuels, Hydrogen production

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