Journal Articles (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
Items in this Collection
- 19Birchall, S. Jeff
- 3Murphy, Maya
- 2Bonnett, Nicole
- 2MacDonald, Seghan
- 1Bara, Nicklas N.
- 1Bonnett, Nicole
- 5New Zealand
- 4Carbon management
- 4Urban planning
- 3Climate Change
- 3Climate change policy
- 2Climate change
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2021-05-01
Birchall, S. Jeff, MacDonald, Seghan, Slater, Tara
As climate change progresses, local governments are being forced to find ways to adapt to worsening environmental, economic, and infrastructure impacts. The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick has a long history of river and overland flooding; however, more recent changes in local weather patterns...
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Wildfire risk and response in Jasper National Park, Alberta: Application of an adaptation readiness framework
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Halabut, Rechelle, Birchall, S. Jeff
Environmental change associated with warmer temperatures is creating unprecedented conditions in natural regions and ecosystems. In Jasper National Park, Alberta, climate change, historical fire management practices, and the mountain pine beetle infestation are combining to increase the risk of a...
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Carbon management in New Zealand local government: Co-benefits of action and organizational resolve in the absence of government support
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In an effort to promote public sector carbon management, in 2004, New Zealand’s (NZ) Labour-led government funded local government membership in the Communities for Climate Protection - New Zealand (CCP-NZ) program, the NZ arm of ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection campaign. In late 2008 the...
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2017
Birchall, S. Jeff, Murphy, Maya, Milne, Markus
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a relatively mature field where institutions have become firmly established. This empirical paper explores findings obtained from interviewing key actors within the VCM in New Zealand, at a time when the organizational field was beginning to emerge...
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2022-04-01
Bonnett, Nicole, Birchall, S. Jeff
This study examines extent and quality of climate adaptation integration within strategic plans of local governments in British Columbia, Canada. Strategic plans (n=39) were assessed using plan content analysis in order to understand whether regional planning leads to adaptation action by...
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Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
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Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not...
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An assessment of systems, agents, and institutions in building community resilience to climate change: A case study of Charlottetown, Canada
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Birchall, S. Jeff, MacDonald, Seghan, Bara, Nicklas N.
While climate change manifests itself as a global phenomenon, impacts are experienced most acutely at the local scale. As a result, the onus of responding to climate change impacts through planning policies and practice falls on local government decision-makers. This qualitative study, based in...
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Qualitative Inquiry as a Method to Extract Personal Experiences: Approach to research into organizational climate change mitigation
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Climate change and solutions to solving this wicked problem require a mixed methods research approach that draws on quantitative and qualitative inquiry together. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the applicability (and effectiveness) of a mixed methods approach applied to research...