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Kai Chan is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair (tier 2, in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). His training spans conservation biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, policy, and ethics, and his skill sets include quantitative analysis and modeling. Kai combines these perspectives in a sustainability science research program on social-ecological interactions (including human impacts on ecosystem components and processes, and ecosystem services to benefit people) and applied environmental ethics to inform ecosystem-based management and sustainability solutions. Kai leads CHAN’S lab; he is a director on the board of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s BC chapter (CPAWS-BC), a senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and a member of the Global Young Academy.
To see Kai’s page at CHAN’S lab click here.
López de la Lama et al., Fisheries-derived cultural ecosystem services in pre-Hispanic Peru
López de la Lama, R., S. de la Puente, J.C. Sueiro and K.M.A. Chan (2021). “Reconnecting with the past and anticipating the future: A review of fisheries-derived cultural ecosystem services in pre-Hispanic Peru.” People and Nature 3(1): 129-147. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10153
Echeverri & Karp et al., Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests
Echeverri, A., D.S. Karp, L.O. Frishkoff, J. Krishnan, R. Naidoo, J. Zhao, J. Zook and K.M.A. Chan (2021). “Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests.” Conservation Letters 14(2): e12763. Doi: 10.1111/conl.12763
Kai and Matt advertise for a PhD student
Kai and Matt Mitchell are seeking a PhD student to model biodiversity and ecosystem services in Metro Vancouver (see the job ad).
Kai and Terre reflect on a nine-year journey to critically evaluate ecosystem services research
Following their publication of a new paper in People and Nature, Kai Chan and Terre Satterfield reflect on the maturation of ecosystem services as a field, and how it has risen to some critiques but not others. In Relational Thinking, The People and Nature Blog.
Chan & Satterfield, The maturation of ecosystem services
Chan, K.M.A. and T. Satterfield (2020). “The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically-informed valuation?” People and Nature: 2(4): 1021-1060. Doi: 10.1002/pan3.10137
Klain et al., Octopus’s garden under the blade
Klain, S., T. Satterfield, K.M.A. Chan and K. Lindberg (2020). “Octopus’s garden under the blade: Boosting biodiversity increases willingness to pay for offshore wind in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 69: 101744. Doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101744
Maayan Kreitzman defends her PhD
Maayan successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Perennial Agriculture: Agronomy and Environment in Long-Lived Food Systems“. Congratulations, Maayan!
Duarte et al., A user-inspired framework and tool for restoring multifunctional landscapes
Duarte, G.T., M. Mitchell, F. Martello, E.J. Gregr, A.P. Paglia, K.M.A. Chan and M. C. Ribeiro (2020). “A user-inspired framework and tool for restoring multifunctional landscapes: putting into practice stakeholder and scientific knowledge of landscape services.” Landscape Ecology 35: 2535–2548. Doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01093-7 (This work resulted from Gabi’s visit at UBC.)
John Driscoll defends his PhD
John successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Nutrient Yields from Northwest Atlantic Fisheries: Analysis, Indicators, and Optimization“. Congratulations, John!
IPBES Podcast: Choose Your Own Adventure
Kai Chan was featured on the new IPBES Podcast Nature Insight. Rob Spaull interviewed Kai about transformative change, the personal and the global.