Our mission is captured in the diversity of research efforts conducted in our lab:

• Our focus in the natural sciences (Biological infestations and invasions, Ecosystem-modeling, and Biodiversity) extends beyond the ecological questions to the relevance of this work to management and decision-making.

• Our work in the social sciences (Applied environmental ethics, Socio-cultural value elicitation) explores the just treatment of current and future generations developing novel approaches and informing the relevance of our natural science work.

We are proudly based at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability (IRES) and the Biodiversity Research Centre (BRC) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.