Ben Bradshaw

Research Interests

I am a community-engaged scholar with a research program broadly focused on environmental governance, with special emphasis these days on: mining and Indigenous communities in Canada; environmental stewardship in conventional agricultural systems; and Canada’s emergent sustainable seafood governance network.

Past research has focused on corporate social/environmental responsibility, agricultural trade liberalization, community-based resource management, agricultural biotechnology adoption, and climate change adaptation in agriculture. I welcome communications with other researchers, professionals, and potential graduate students with overlapping interests.

Keywords: Environmental Governance in the mining, energy and agriculture sectors.

Courses Taught

• GEOG*2210 Environment and Resources
• GEOG*4210 Environmental Governance
• GEOG*4990 Independent Study in Geography
• GEOG 6091 Geographic Research Methods II
• GEOG*6281 Environmental Management and Governance
• GEOG*6100 Geographic Scholarship and Research

Projects

• Mining and Indigenous community well-being: measuring what matters;
• Assessing the origins and utility of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs);
• Co-developing solutions to pollinator decline in agricultural landscapes; and
• Identifying the maturity of Canada’s emergent sustainable seafood governance system

Professional Activities

• Originator and Project Manager, IBA Research Network (www.impactandbenefit.com);
• Board Member, Ontario Association for Impact Assessment (2014-_);
• Treasurer (2004- ) and Chair (2001-04), Environment and Resources Study Group, Canadian Association of Geographers

Select Publications

Martin, E. and Bradshaw, B. (2018) Free Prior and Informed Consent in the Yukon: Established Practice or Untraveled Path? Northern Review 47:113-134

Bradshaw, B., Fidler, C. and Wright, A. (2018). Impact and Benefit Agreements and Northern Resource Governance: What we know and what we still need to figure out. Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, Chris Southcott, Frances Abele, Dave Natcher and Brenda Parlee (eds.), Routledge, Pp. 214-228.

Bradshaw, B. and Gibson, G. (2018). Free, Prior and Informed Consent. Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. D. C. Poff & A. C. Michalos (eds.), Springer.

Bradshaw, B. (2015). “Environmental Governance in Canada: Are we making progress?” in B. Mitchell (ed.) Resource and Environmental Management in Canada: Addressing Conflict and Uncertainty, Fifth Edition. Oxford University Press, pp. 171-191.

Klinck, R., Bradshaw, B., Sandy, R., Nabinacaboo, S., Mameanskum, M., Guanish,M., Einish, P., Guanish, G. and Pien, S. (2015). Enabling Community Well-being Self-Monitoring in the Context of Mining: the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach. Engaged Scholar Journal 1(2): 114-130

Jones, J. and Bradshaw, B. (2015). Addressing historical impacts through Impact and Benefit Agreements and Health Impact Assessment: Why it matters for Indigenous Well-Being. Northern Review. 41: 81-109.

Bradshaw, B. and McElroy, C. (2014). “Company-community agreements in the mining sector” in C. Louche and T. Hebb (eds.) Socially Responsible Investing in the 21st Century. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.173-193.

Opportunities