Juanita Sundberg, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

How scientists can make the case for international cooperation in an age of diplomatic retrenchment.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
Conservation: stop profit trumping all.
Nature · 2014 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Militarization and everyday life in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$119,643
Conservation as a site for democratization in Latin America
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$105,508

All 2 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

How scientists can make the case for international cooperation in an age of diplomatic retrenchment.

Dubovsky JA, Sundberg J, Medellín RA, Derbridge JJ, Mattsson BJ, Chester CC, López-Hoffman L

Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology2026

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.70161 PMID: 41117186

02

Conservation: stop profit trumping all.

Dempsey J, Collard R, Sundberg J

Nature2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/516037b PMID: 25471874

Militarization and everyday life in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Sundberg, Juanita

Keywords: feminist methodology; militarization; border security; United States-Mexico borderlands

$119,643

Conservation as a site for democratization in Latin America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sundberg, Juanita

Keywords: conservation and sustainable development in Latin America; democracy in Latin America; cultural geography; feminist geography

$105,508

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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