We are a group of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph.
We have individual and shared expertise spanning range of topics, including: conservation, environmental governance, international development and aid, cause related marketing and campaigns, coastal communities and fisheries management, digital technology, media and ‘big data’, and the science-policy interface. We employ innovative research methods and publish in a range of geography, interdisciplinary and applied journals.
A selection of representative publications are listed below. As you will see, we enjoy collaborative work with graduate students and others! Contact us individually to learn more about our funded projects and specific graduate student opportunities.
2023
Glaros, A., D. Thomas, E. Nost, E. Nelson, and T. Schumilas. Digital technologies in local agri-food systems: Opportunities for a more interoperable digital farmgate sector. Frontiers in Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2023.1073873
Hawkins, R., & Silver, J. J. Following Miss Costa: Examining digital natures through a shark with a Twitter account. Digital Geography and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2023.100066
McDermott, L and R. Roth. Enacting a Reciprocal Ethic of Care: (Finally) Fulfilling Treaty Obligations. In Olive, Finegan and Beazley (Eds) Transformative Politics of Nature: Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada. University of Toronto Press.
Molloy, M., E. Nost, and M. Bledsoe. Is adaptation planning effective and for whom? The case of Louisiana’s 2017 Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. Environmental Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2189687
Paul, A, R. Roth and S.P Saw Twa. Conservation for self-determination: Salween Peace Park as an Indigenous Karen conservation initiative. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 19(2):271-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/117718012311690
Townsend J and R. Roth. Indigenous and decolonial futures: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas as potential pathways of reconciliation. Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Environment, Politics and Society. Volume 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1286970
2022
Drakopulos, L., Nost, E., Hawkins, R., & Silver, J. J. A Shark in your Pocket, A Bird in your Hand (Held): The Spectacular and Charismatic Visualisation of Nature in Conservation Apps. In Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities (pp. 303-316). Routledge.
Drakopulos, L., Silver, J. J., Nost, E., Gray, N., & Hawkins, R. Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221111786
Goldstein, J. and E. Nost. The Nature of Data: Infrastructures, Environments, and Politics. University of Nebraska Press.
Hawkins, R., & Nelson, I. L. Where are rooted networks in digital political ecologies? Frontiers in Human Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.989387
Nelson, I. L., Hawkins, R., & Govia, L. Feminist digital natures. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221123136
Nost, E. and E. Colven. Earth for AI: A Political Ecology of Data-Driven Climate Initiatives. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.016
Nost, E. ‘The tool didn’t make decisions for us’: metrics and the performance of accountability in environmental governance. Science as Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2022.2151427
Roth, R. An attack on Indigenous rights is an attack on nature conservation. The Conservation. October 30, 2022. https://theconversation.com/an-attack-of- indigenous-rights-is-an-attack-on-nature-conservation-192330
Silver, J.J., Okamoto, D.K., Armitage, D., Alexander, S.M., Atleo, C., Burt, J.M., Jones, R., Lee, L.C., Muhl, E.K., Salomon, A.K. & Stoll, J.S. Fish, people, and systems of power: understanding and disrupting feedback between colonialism and fisheries science. The American Naturalist, 200(1), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.1086/720152
Silver, J. J., & Stoll, J. S. A framework for investigating commercial license and quota holdings in an era of fisheries consolidation, concentration and financialization. Marine Policy, 143, 105179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105179
Tamufor, E and R. Roth. COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal: Canada failed to meet its 2020 conservation targets. Will 2030 be any better? The Conversation. December 7, 2022. https://theconversation.com/cop15-biodiversity- summit-in-montreal-canada-failed-to-meet-its-2020-conservation-targets-will- 2030-be-any-better-195347
2021
Bernauer, W. and R. Roth. Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada. Geoforum 120, 208-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.01.011
Blythe, J. L., Armitage, D., Bennett, N. J., Silver, J. J., & Song, A. M. The politics of ocean governance transformations. Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.634718
Campbell, L.M., N.J. Gray, S.B. Jones Zigler, L. Acton, and R. Gruby. World-making through mapping: Large scale marine protected areas and the transformation of the global ocean. In M. Himley, E. Havice, and G. Valdivia (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, pp. 425-440. Taylor and Francis.
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Duncan, E., A. Glaros, D. Ross, & E. Nost. New but for whom? Discourses of innovation in precision agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-021-10244-8
Gruby, R.L., N.J. Gray, L. Fairbanks, E. Havice, L. Campbell, A. Friedlander, K.L.L. Oleson, K. Sam, L. Mitchell, and Q. Hanich. Policy interactions in large-scale marine protected areas. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12753
Hagerman, S.M., L.M. Campbell, N.J. Gray, and R.Pelai. Knowledge production for target-based biodiversity governance. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108980
Machen, R. and E. Nost. Thinking algorithmically: The making of hegemonic knowledge in climate governance. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12441
Nost, E. and J. Goldstein. A political ecology of data. Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211043503
Paul, A., R. Roth, and S.S.B. Moo. Relational ontology and more-than-human agency in Indigenous Karen conservation practice. Pacific Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC20016
Richey, L. A., Hawkins, R., & Goodman, M. K. Why are humanitarian sentiments profitable and what does this mean for global development? World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105537
2020
Artelle, K. A., Brown, K., Chan, D. E., & Silver, J. J. A community-led approach to COVID-19. Scienc, 369(6502), 385-386. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/385.2
Artis, E., N.J. Gray, L.M. Campbell, R. Gruby, L. Acton, S.B. Zigler, . Mitchell. Stakeholder Perspectives on Large-scale Marine Protected Areas. PLOS One 15(9): e0238574.
Clark, K., Hawkins, R., & Silver, J. J. Gender, nature and nation: Resource nationalism on primary sector reality TV. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Spacehttps://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619899785
Gray, N.J., C. Corson, L.M. Campbell, P. Wilshusen, R. Gruby and S. Hagerman. Doing strong collaborative fieldwork in human geography. Geographical Review 110(1-2): 117-132. https://doi.org/10.1111/gere.12352
Hawkins, R., & Horst, N. Ethical consumption? There’s an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 64(4), 590-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12616
Kipp, A., R. Hawkins & N.J. Gray. Gendered and racialized experiences and subjectivities in volunteer tourism. Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1708274
Nost, E. Infrastructuring “data-driven” environmental governance in Louisiana’s coastal restoration plan. Environment & Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620909727
Ohayon, J., E. Nost, K. Silk, M. Rakoff. Barriers and opportunities for breast cancer organizations to focus on environmental health and disease prevention: a mixed-methods approach using website analyses, interviews, and focus groups. Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-020-0570-7
Youdelis, M., R. Nakoochee, C. O’Neil, E. Lunstrum, and R. Roth. “Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic? The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien 64 (2), 232-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12600
2019
Armitage, D., Okamoto, D., Silver, J.J., Francis, T. Davies, I., Levin, P.S., Cleary, J., Dressel, S.C., Jones, R., Kitka, H., Lee, L., McIsaac, J., Poe, M., Punt, A.E., Reifenstuhl, S., Shelton, A.O., Schmidt, J., Siple, M.C., Thornton, T.F., Voss, R., Woodruff, J. Integrating governance and quantitative evaluation of resource management strategies to improve social and ecological outcomes. BioScience. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz059
Bennett, N and R. Roth. Realizing the transformative potential of conservation through the social sciences, arts and humanities. Biological Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.07.023
Corson, Catherine, Lisa M. Campbell, Peter Wilshusen and Noella J. Gray. 2019. Assembling global conservation governance. Geoforum 103: 56-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.03.012
Kipp, A. & Hawkins, R. The responsibilization of “development consumers” through cause-related marketing campaigns. Consumption Markets & Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2018.1431221
Mansfield, B., R. Lave, K. McSweeney, A. Bonds, J. Cockburn, M. Domosh, T. Hamilton, R. Hawkins, A. Hessl, D. Munroe, D. Ojeda, and C. Radel. It’s time to recognize how men’s careers benefit from sexually harassing women in academia. Human Geography. 12(1): 82-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/194277861901200110
Moola, F and R. Roth. Moving beyond colonial conservation models: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas offer hope for biodiversity and advancing reconciliation in the Canadian boreal forest. Environmental Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2018-0091
Nost, E., Robertson, M., and Lave, R. Q-method and the performance of subjectivity: Reflections from a survey of US stream restoration practitioners. Geoforum 105, 23-31 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.06.004
Nost, E. Climate services for whom? The political economics of contextualizing climate data for Louisiana’s coastal Master Plan. Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02383-z
Silver, J.J. and Campbell, L.M. Conservation, development and the blue frontier: The Republic of Seychelles’ Debt Restructuring for Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation Program. International Social Science Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12156
Silver, J. J., & Stoll, J. S. How do commercial fishing licences relate to access?. Fish and Fisheries, 20(5), 993-1004. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12393
2018
Blythe, J., Silver, J.J., Evans, L., Armitage, D., Bennett, N., Moore, M-L., Morrison, T., Brown, K. The dark side of transformation: latent risks in contemporary sustainability discourse. Antipode. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12405
Fraser-Celine, V-L., Hovorka, A., Silver, J.J. Human conflict over wildlife: exploring social constructions of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon Pictus) in Botswana. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2018.1443528
Gray, Noella J. Charted Waters? Tracking the Production of Conservation Territories on the High Seas. International Social Science Journal 68 (229-230): 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12158
Hawkins, R. Breaking Down Barriers of Culture and Geography? Caring-at-a-Distance through Web 2.0. New Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2018.1528534
Lamb, V. and R. Roth. Science as friend and foe: the ‘technologies of humility’ in the changing relationship to science in community forestry debates in Thailand. In Mollett and Kepe (Eds). Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking parks and people. Routledge.
Moore, S. A., H. Rosenfeld, E. Nost, K. Vincent, and R. E. Roth. Undermining methodological nationalism: Cosmopolitan analysis and visualization of the North American hazardous waste trade. Environment and Planning A. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18784023
Stoddard, E., A. Cantor, D. Rocheleau, J. Brewer, R. Roth, K. Foo, T Birkensholts and P Nirmal. Putting Rooted Networks Into Practice. ACME. https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1289
Tardif, J and R. Roth. From Birds to Boats: The political ecology of cruise tourism in Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in Quebec (Canada). Tourism in Marine Environments. https://doi.org/10.3727/154427318X15417374598993
Walker, D., E. Nost, A. Lemelin, R. Lave, and L. Dillon. 2018. Practicing environmental data justice: From DataRescue to Data Together. Geo.https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.61
2017
Bennett, N., Roth, R., Klain, S., Chan, K., Clark, D., Cullman, G., Epstein, G., Nelson, P., Stedman, R., Teel, T., Thomas, R., Wyborn, C., Currans, D., Greenberg, A., Sandlos, J & Verissimo, D. Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation. Biological Conservation.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.006
Bennett, N, Roth, R., Klain, S., Chan, K., Clark, D., Cullman, G., Epstein, G., Nelson, P., Stedman, R., Teel, T., Thomas, R., Wyborn, C., Currans, D., Greenberg, A., Sandlos, J & Verissimo, D. Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12788
Gray, Noella J., Nathan J Bennett, Jon C Day, Rebecca L Gruby, T. Aulani Wilhelm, Patrick Christie. Human Dimensions of Large-scale Marine Protected Areas: Advancing Research and Practice. Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.10/08920753.2017.1373448
Gray, N.J., A. Meeker, S. Ravensbergen, A. Kipp, and J. Faulkner. Producing science and global citizenship? Volunteer tourism and conservation in Belize. Tourism Recreation Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2017.1300398
Nost, E., H. Rosenfeld, K. Vincent, S. Moore, and R.E. Roth. HazMatMapper: An online and interactive geographic visualization tool for exploring transnational flows of hazardous waste and environmental justice. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1282384
Silver, J.J., and R. Hawkins. “I’m not trying to save fish, I’m trying to save dinner”: Media, celebrity and sustainable seafood as a solution to environmental limits. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.09.005
2016
Campbell, L.M., N.J. Gray, L. Fairbanks, J.J. Silver, R.L. Gruby, B. Dubik, X. Basurto. Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021121
Gray, N.J. The Role of Boundary Organizations in Co-Management: Examining the Politics of Knowledge Integration in a Marine Protected Area in Belize. International Journal of the Commons. http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.643
Gray, N.J., Lisa M. Campbell, and Alexandra Meeker. Decommodifying neoliberal conservation? A political ecology of volunteer tourism in Costa Rica. In S. Nepal and J. Saarinen (Eds.), Political Ecology and Tourism, pp. 54-67. Routledge.
Hawkins, R., and J.J. Silver. From selfie to #sealfie: Nature 2.0 and the digital cultural politics of an internationally contested resource. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.06.019
Johnson, R., Fraser, E., & Hawkins, R. Overcoming barriers to scaling up sustainable alternative food systems: A comparative case study of two Ontario-based wholesale produce auctions. Sustainability. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/8/4/328/pdf
VonderPorten, S., Silver, J.J., Lepofsky, D., McGregor, D. Recommendations for marine herring policy in Canada: Aligning with asserted Indigenous legal and inherent rights. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.09.007
2015
Hawkins, R. Shifting conceptualizations of ethical consumption: Cause-related marketing in India and the USA. Geoforum.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.007
Latt, S and Roth, R. Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Hmong and Shan agricultural production in Northern Thailand. Journal of Agrarian Change. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12081
Mountz, A., A. Bonds, B. Mansfield, J. Loyd, J. Hyndman, M. Walton-Roberts, R. Basu, R. Whitson, R. Hawkins, T. Hamilton and W. Curran. For Slow Scholarship: A feminist politics of resistance through collaborative action in the neoliberal university. ACME.https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1058
Nost, E. Performing nature’s value: software and the making of Oregon’s ecosystem services markets. Environment and Planning: A 47 (12): 2573-2590. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X15616631
Silver, J.J., N.J. Gray, L.M. Campbell, L.W. Fairbanks, R.L. Gruby. Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance. Journal of Environment and Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/1070496515580797
Valencia‐Fourcans, L., and R. Hawkins. Representations of Women in Microcredit Promotional Materials: The Case of Espoir Ecuador. Journal of International Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3136