Explore this selection of recent Royal Roads faculty research.
From awe to action? An interdisciplinary, systematic review of awe's potential influence on pro‐environmental behaviour
Smith, L. K., Jones, D. M., Deboer‐Smith, A., & Wolfe, S. E. (2026). People and Nature. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Human dimensions in water crisis management: Gender bias in water manager appraisals and implications for water decision-making
Smith, L. K. M., Bergsieker, H. B., Wolfe, S. E., & Wright, G. (2025). PLOS Water, 4(11). [RRU Faculty Publication]
A systems thinking approach to examine local food systems planning through a climate-biodiversity-health lens: A Comox Valley case study
Issac, J., Newell, R., & Das, R. (2025). Environmental Science & Policy, 163, 103972. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Consumers and farmer awareness and perception of heavy metal contamination in rice: Implications for food safety and sustainability
Boakye, K. O., Darko, G., Asante, B. O., Tanor, E., Logah, V., & Dodd, M. (2025). Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, 10(1), [RRU Faculty Publication]
The State of Local Food Systems and Integrated Planning and Policy Research: An Application of the Climate, Biodiversity, Health, and Justice Nexus
Glaros, A., & Newell, R. (2025). Agriculture, 15(7), 718. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Food System Scenarios in Uncertain Futures: A Case Study on Long-Term Local Food System Planning in Revelstoke, Canada
Newell, R., Dring, C., King, L., & Hemphill, M. (2025). Agriculture, 15(6), 611. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Rethinking Public Transit Networks Using Climate Change Mitigation and Social Justice Lenses: Great Victoria Area Case Study
Ghadiri, M., & Newell, R. (2024). Sustainability, 16(6), 2414. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Human health risk associated with metal exposure at Agbogbloshie e-waste site and the surrounding neighbourhood in Accra, Ghana
Dodd, M., Amponsah, L. O., Grundy, S., & Darko, G. (2023). Environmental Geochemistry and Health : Official Journal of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 45(7), 4515–4531. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Varieties of Approaches to Constructing Physical Climate Storylines: A Review
Baldissera Pacchetti, M., Coulter, L., Dessai, S., Shepherd, T. G., Sillmann, J., and Van Den Hurk, B. (2023) WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e869 [RRU Faculty Publication]
Natural Asset Management Challenge Dialogue: Final report.
Coulter, L., Cox, R. S., Forssman, V., Brooke, R. (2023) Resilience by Design Lab and Natural Assets Initiative
Energy Poverty: An Overlooked Determinant of Health and Climate Resilience in Canada
Riva, M., Makasi, S. K., O’Sullivan, K. C., Das, R., Dufresne, P., Kaiser, D., and Breau, S. (2023) Canadian Journal of Public Health, 114, 422-431 [RRU Faculty Publication]
Advancing the Climate-Biodiversity-Health Nexus: Social Justice, Scale, and Applications
Newell, R., Issac, J., Ghadiri, M., Dring, C., Dale, A., King, L. Krawchenko, T., Sheldon, T., Yehia, J., Das, R. (2023) [Technical Report]. Transdisciplinary Research on Integrated Approaches to Sustainability (TRIAS) Lab, Royal Roads University [RRU Faculty Publication]
Climate Change-Related Natural Hazards and Risk Communication: Incorporating Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Khalafzai, M. A. (2023) M. Mokhtari (Editor), Natural Hazards – New Insights. IntechOpen [RRU Faculty Publication]
The rise in investors’ awareness of climate risks after the Paris agreement and the clean energy-oil-technology prices nexus
Fahmy, H. (2022) Energy Economicsv106 (202202) [RRU Faculty Publication]
Mortality management and climate action: A review and reference for using Terror Management Theory methods in interdisciplinary environmental research
Smith, L. K. M., Ross, H. C., Shouldice, S. A., & Wolfe, S. E. (2022). Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13(4). [RRU Faculty Publication]
Sustainable Development and Canada’s Transitioning Energy Systems
Benson, M., Boda, C., Das, R., King, L., Park, C. (2022) Sustainability. 14(4):2213. [RRU Faculty Publication]
Communicating Environmental Research: Harnessing the Power of Curation
Dale, A., Clifton-Ross, J., Jost, F., Hodson, J., Leighton, H., & Bernard, M. (2021). Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 13(3). [RRU Faculty Publication]
Covid-19 and climate change: an integrated perspective
Newell, R., Dale, A. (2021) Cities & Healthv5 nsup1 (20210721): S100-S104 [RRU Faculty Publication]
The role of scientific evidence in Canada's west coast energy conflicts
Clermont, H., Dale, A., King, L., Reed, M. (2021) [RRU Faculty Publication]
Meeting the climate change challenge: local government climate action in British Columbia, Canada
Dale, A., Robinson, J., King, L., Burch, L., Newell, R., Shaw, A., Jost, F. (2020) Climate Policyv20 n7 (20200808): 866-880 [RRU Faculty Publication]