Matthew Evenden, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Potable city: an environmental historical geography of Vancouver's water supply
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$72,945
NiCHE Network in Canadian History and Environment / Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l'environnement
SSHRC · 2006 · Co-investigator
$2,082,893
Canadian history & environment
SSHRC · 2004 · Co-investigator
$30,000

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Potable city: an environmental historical geography of Vancouver's water supply

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Evenden, Matthew D.

Keywords: historical geography; environmental history; urban history; water history; water policy

$72,945

NiCHE Network in Canadian History and Environment / Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l'environnement

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006

Principal investigators: MacEachern, Alan A.

Keywords: environment; Canada; history; digital humanities; climate; landscapes; parks; forests; water; ecology; open source; open access

$2,082,893

Canadian history & environment

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants

Principal investigators: MacEachern, Alan A.

$30,000

War and waterpower: mobilizing Canadian rivers during the Second World War

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Evenden, Matthew D.

Keywords: historical geography; environmental history; river development; hydroelectricity; wartime mobilization

$53,763

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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