Faculty profile
Lorien Nesbitt
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Research
Latest papers
The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods.
Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026
Greening the gentrification process: Insights and engagements from practitioners.
Environment and planning. E, Nature and space · 2024
British Columbia, Canada, as a bellwether for climate-driven respiratory and allergic disorders.
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2023
Latest funding
- $354,530
From Access to Experience: Exploring Embodied Accessibility of Urban Greenspaces in Later Life
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $79,719
Charting new pathways to achieving recognitional justice in urban greening
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $63,550
Networks of Care for Green, Healthy Cities
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
9 publications.
The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods.
Quinton J, Nesbitt L, Connolly JJT, Wyly E
Greening the gentrification process: Insights and engagements from practitioners.
Quinton J, Nesbitt L, Sax D, Harris L
British Columbia, Canada, as a bellwether for climate-driven respiratory and allergic disorders.
Carlsten C, Brauer M, Camp PG, Nesbitt L, Turner J
Invited Perspective: Nature Is Unfairly Distributed in the United States-But That's Only Part of the Global Green Equity Story.
Nesbitt L, Quinton J
How well do we know green gentrification? A systematic review of the methods.
Quinton J, Nesbitt L, Sax D
The influence of early-life residential exposure to different vegetation types and paved surfaces on early childhood development: A population-based birth cohort study.
Jarvis I, Sbihi H, Davis Z, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW, Gergel SE, Guhn M, Jerrett M, Koehoorn M, Nesbitt L, Oberlander TF, Su J, van den Bosch M
Neighborhood environmental exposures and incidence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A population-based cohort study.
Yuchi W, Brauer M, Czekajlo A, Davies HW, Davis Z, Guhn M, Jarvis I, Jerrett M, Nesbitt L, Oberlander TF, Sbihi H, Su J, van den Bosch M
The association between natural environments and childhood mental health and development: A systematic review and assessment of different exposure measurements.
Davis Z, Guhn M, Jarvis I, Jerrett M, Nesbitt L, Oberlander T, Sbihi H, Su J, van den Bosch M
Born to be Wise: a population registry data linkage protocol to assess the impact of modifiable early-life environmental exposures on the health and development of children.
van den Bosch M, Brauer M, Burnett R, Davies HW, Davis Z, Guhn M, Jarvis I, Nesbitt L, Oberlander T, Rugel E, Sbihi H, Su JG, Jerrett M
From Access to Experience: Exploring Embodied Accessibility of Urban Greenspaces in Later Life
Principal investigators: Park, Keunhyun
Charting new pathways to achieving recognitional justice in urban greening
Principal investigators: Nesbitt, Lorien H.C.
Keywords: environmental justice; urban greening; civic stewardship; recognition
Networks of Care for Green, Healthy Cities
Principal investigators: Nesbitt, Lorien H.C.
Keywords: environmental justice; environmental health; human health; participatory action research; nature-based solutions; climate change
Charting new pathways to achieving recognitional justice in urban greening
Principal investigators: Nesbitt, Lorien H.C.
Keywords: environmental justice; urban greening; civic stewardship; recognition
Border vacuums: Analysis of underused parks as barriers of urban vitality using mobile phone data
Principal investigators: Park, Keunhyun
Keywords: community vitality; urban forests; urban planning and design; ecosystem disservices; big data anlaysis; mobility data; spatial econometrics
Urban Greening vs. Urban Densification: Evaluating future what-if scenarios for effects on heat island, shading and cooling of neighbourhoods
Principal investigators: Girling, Cynthia L.
Keywords: climate action planning; climate adaptation; urban forest; heat island; neighbourhood livability
Training the future leaders in urban forestry (Ufor)
Principal investigators: Messier, Christian C
Keywords: biodiversity; ecological economy; ecosystem services; gis; human health; landscape connectivity; remote sensing; silviculture; tree ecophysiology; tree growth
Green gentrification and equitable urban forest governance in Metro Vancouver
Principal investigators: Nesbitt, Lorien
Keywords: Green gentrification; Urban forestry; Environmental justice; Urban planning; Equity; Governance
Will smarter forests take us farther? Fostering resilient forest ecosystems in the digital era
Principal investigators: Nesbitt, Lorien H.C.
Keywords: forest management; digital technologies; urban forestry; data; analytics; resilience; scoping review; stakeholder analysis
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Michael Brauer and Hind Sbihi: 18 shared papers
- Mieke Koehoorn and Michael Brauer: 12 shared papers
- Christopher Carlsten and Michael Brauer: 8 shared papers
- Martin Guhn and Matilda Van Den Bosch: 7 shared papers
- Martin Guhn and Hind Sbihi: 7 shared papers
- Michael Brauer and Matilda Van Den Bosch: 7 shared papers
- Matilda Van Den Bosch and Hind Sbihi: 7 shared papers
- Martin Guhn and Michael Brauer: 6 shared papers
- Mieke Koehoorn and Hind Sbihi: 5 shared papers
- Martin Guhn and Lorien Nesbitt: 4 shared papers
- Michael Brauer and Lorien Nesbitt: 4 shared papers
- Matilda Van Den Bosch and Lorien Nesbitt: 4 shared papers
- Hind Sbihi and Lorien Nesbitt: 4 shared papers
- Mieke Koehoorn and Matilda Van Den Bosch: 3 shared papers
- Christopher Carlsten and Hind Sbihi: 2 shared papers
- Christopher Carlsten and Lorien Nesbitt: 1 shared paper
- Mieke Koehoorn and Lorien Nesbitt: 1 shared paper
- Elvin Wyly and Lorien Nesbitt: 1 shared paper
- Leila Harris and Lorien Nesbitt: 1 shared paper
- School of Population and Public Health
- Medicine
- Urban and Regional Studies, Environmental Studies
- Life Span Development
- Department of Geography
- Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Matilda Van Den Bosch
School of Population and Public Health
4 shared papers, latest 2022
Hind Sbihi
Faculty
4 shared papers, latest 2022
Martin Guhn
Life Span Development
4 shared papers, latest 2022
Michael Brauer
Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2023
Leila Harris
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Mieke Koehoorn
School of Population and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Elvin Wyly
Department of Geography
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Christopher Carlsten
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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