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Deborah Curran
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Latest papers
Indigenous Influence and Engagement in Mining Permitting in British Columbia, Canada: Lessons for Sweden and Norway?
Environmental management · 2023 · senior author
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2017
Latest funding
- $17,483
Realizing Indigenous jurisdiction in environmental decision-making in historic treaty lands: An Alberta Treaty 8 case study
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $26,558
Gender and the Minimum Wage
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Light, current, action! A multi-faceted catalytic approach to the destruction of persistent pollutants
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Indigenous Influence and Engagement in Mining Permitting in British Columbia, Canada: Lessons for Sweden and Norway?
Allard C, Curran D
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation.
Bennett NJ, Roth R, Klain SC, Chan KM, Clark DA, Cullman G, Epstein G, Nelson MP, Stedman R, Teel TL, Thomas RE, Wyborn C, Curran D, Greenberg A, Sandlos J, Veríssimo D
Realizing Indigenous jurisdiction in environmental decision-making in historic treaty lands: An Alberta Treaty 8 case study
Principal investigators: Baccarini Macias Gimenez, Rebeca
Keywords: Indigenous peoples; historic treaties; infringement of treaty rights; environmental decision-making; industrial development; cumulative impacts; Indigenous jurisdiction; Treaty 8; co-management; shared decision-making; UNDRIP
Gender and the Minimum Wage
Principal investigators: Coviello, Decio
Keywords: gender; minimum wage; productivity; welfare; efficiency-wage
Light, current, action! A multi-faceted catalytic approach to the destruction of persistent pollutants
Principal investigators: McIndoe, Scott
Examining the role of dynamic factors in the self-stigma of borderline personality disorder
Principal investigators: Amestoy, Maya MA.
Keywords: borderline personality disorder; stigma; self-compassion; coping
Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism: Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction
Keywords: Indigenous studies; socio-legal studies; critical geography; settler colonial studies; infrastructure; jurisdiction; extractivism
The Balance Co-Lab: Collaboration for Sustainable Communities
Keywords: self-determination; Indigenous sustainable community development; social and community-based entrepreneurship; cross-sector collaboration; organizational learning; social innovation; Indigenous economies; cumulative impacts assessment
Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism: Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction
Keywords: Indigenous studies; socio-legal studies; critical geography; settler colonial studies; infrastructure; jurisdiction; extractivism
Water laws: lessons from Indigenous and colonial stewardship
Principal investigators: Napoleon, Valerie R.
Keywords: law; Indigenous legal theory; informal law; interactive law; water licences; water stewardship; water law; reconciliation; water sustainability act; water use
The city walks and the city talks urban studies and the city of Victoria
Principal investigators: Rose-Redwood, Reuben S.
Keywords: urban studies; cities; municipal government; policy; urban planning; towns; security; religion
When the water dries up: lessons from the failure of water entitlements in Canada, the U.S. and Australia
Principal investigators: Curran, Deborah L.
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
- Deborah Curran and Robin Roth: 1 shared paper
- Deborah Curran and John Sandlos: 1 shared paper
- Robin Roth and John Sandlos: 1 shared paper
- School of Environmental Studies
- Environmental History
- Other Geography
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