Tristan Pearce

Research Interests

My research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change, in particular the vulnerability and adaptation of communities and socio-ecological systems to climate change. I am currently working on these issues in partnership with Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic, Pacific Islands, and Australia, and the mining sector in Canada. I have a particular interest in traditional knowledge (TK) including the generation and transmission of TK and its role in adaptation to environmental change.

Projects

• VaRCCA (Vulnerability and resilience to climate change in the Canadian Arctic) [SSHRC]
• Community Vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change in the Arctic [ArcticNet – NSERC] www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca
• Knowledge co-production for the identification and selection of ecological, social and economic indicators for the Beaufort Sea [ArcticNet – NSERC] www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca
• Climate change adaptation among remote Indigenous populations [USC Fellowship]
• IK-ADAPT 2.0: Inuit traditional knowledge for adapting to the health effects of climate change [CIHR] http://www.jamesford.ca/research/ikadapt

Select Publications

Pearce T, Ford J, Cunsolo Willox, A and Smit B (2015). Inuit Traditional ecological knowledge in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Arctic, 68(2): 233-245.

Carter B, Thok S, O’Rourke V and Pearce T (2015). Sustainable tourism in Cambodia: a systematic literature review. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23(5): 797-818.

Berrang-Ford L, Pearce T and Ford J. (2015). Systematic Review Approaches for Climate Change Adaptation Research. Regional Environmental Change.

McCubbin S, Smit B and Pearce T (2015). Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and other stresses in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change, 30: 43-55.

Collings, P, Marten, M and Pearce T (In Press). Food insecurity, sharing networks and female-headed households in Arctic Canada. Ecology of Food and Nutrition.

Pearce T, Wright H, Notaina R, Kudlak A, Smit B, Ford J and Furgal C (2011) Transmission of environmental knowledge and land skills among Inuit men in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. Human Ecology, 39: 271-288.

Pearce T, Ford J, Duerden F, Smit B, Andrachuk M, Berrang-Ford L and Smith T (2011) Advancing adaptation planning for climate change in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR): A review and critique. Regional Environmental Change, 11(1): 1-17.

Pearce T, Ford J, Prno J, Duerden F, Pittman J, Beaumier M, Berrang-Ford L and Smit B (2011) Climate change and mining in Canada. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 16(3): 347-368.

Pearce T, Smit B, Duerden F, Ford J, Goose A and Kataoyak F (2010) Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. Polar Record. 46(237): 157-177.

Pearce T, Ford J, Laidler G, Smit B, Duerden F, Allarut M, Andrachuk M, Baryluk S, Dialla A, Elee P, Goose A, Ikummaq T, Inuktalik R, Joamie E, Kataoyak F, Loring E, Meakin S, Nickels S, Scott A, Shappa K, Shirley J and Wandel J (2009) Community research collaboration in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research, 28: 10-27.

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