Robert Kozak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1412985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Kozak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kozak |
| SIGNATURE | KOZAK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3258-7710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A way for livelihood improvement
Bamboo, widely known as "poor man's timber" or "green gold," is a key forest resource distributed across tropical and subtropical regions. It is vital for its social, economic, cultural, and ecological benefits, demanding in-depth research for sustainable development. Despite its potential contribution to sustainable development, previous studies on bamboo have been geographically and methodically limited, lacking a comprehensive analysis of its …
A retrospective chart review and thematic analysis of patients seeking mpox vaccination during the initial outbreak in 2022–2023
There is little Canadian data on mpox vaccine rollout beyond epidemiologic and cohort information. Understanding the difficulties and stigma that were faced by vaccine recipients is crucial to ensure that when a public health initiative is initiated, that past traumas are not replicated. This study provides valuable patient perspectives in how to improve ongoing rollout, as well as how a campaign that includes a sexual health component may be mor…
A scenario process for urban forest design at the neighbourhood level
Urban forests are facing multiple future challenges. In order for urban forest designs to successfully respond to these challenges, we must explore new approaches that allow for meaningful and rich transdisciplinary conversation and assessment of the trade-offs and co-benefits of a range of options. Scenarios are increasingly being used by numerous disciplines to help understand complex futures, but to be useful they must follow a defensible desi…
Redefining climate change maladaptation using a values‐based approach in forests
Climate change adaptation can have unexpected and detrimental effects, typically conceptualized as maladaptation and narrowly defined in relation to climatic hazards and climate vulnerability. We revisit this narrow framing of maladaptation using a deliberative risk analysis method in 16 focus groups across British Columbia, Canada, where forests are crucial to social, economic and environmental well‐being. By analysing emergent logics of support…
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves
Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas of cultural and religious importance to local people. In some cases, the entire community guards against the desecration of, or unauthorized access to, such sites, either by its members or outsiders; in others, non-recognition of customary rights is linked to degradation. This paper uses the case study of three sacred groves in southwest Nige…
Limitaciones y oportunidades para el escalamiento de cuatro empresas forestales comunitarias del centro de México
Las empresas forestales comunitarias (EFC) requieren habilidades de planificación comercial regional para establecer y mantener asociaciones comerciales a mayor escala. El objetivo de este estudio es identificar la percepción de cuatro EFC contrastantes sobre las limitaciones y oportunidades de escalamiento en el centrode México, con base en el nivel de desarrollo de aprovechamiento silvícola y organización social, aplicando entrevistas a diferen…
What do they like about trees? Adding local voices to urban forest design and planning
Local preferences and priorities for trees and greenspaces are important considerations when planning and designing a community's urban forest. Local residents can provide insight into place-specific contexts such as local esthetic preferences, social systems, cultures, and attitudes to inform appropriate design responses. Residents also inform researchers of key local issues that may impact urban forest configurations, and may differ from expert…
Degrowth or Not Degrowth
Discrimination Impacts Trust During Collaborative Natural Resource Governance Involving Indigenous Communities
Trust is critical to collaborative governance, including of natural resources. Existing frameworks variously emphasize the impact of individual propensity, interpersonal dynamics, and institutional characteristics on trust. However, few frameworks consider the impacts of these influences on trust simultaneously. This study uses a survey of 51 representatives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments from across Canada with experience in natura…
Whose expertise counts? Assisted migration and the politics of knowledge in British Columbia’s public forests
The assisted migration (AM) of trees is increasingly being proposed and trialed to adapt forest management to the impacts of climate change. While institutional and risk perception dimensions of AM are increasingly well-studied, a key gap that remains is to understand how current institutional practices shape the types of knowledge that are considered in AM policy development, and how this in turn makes visible different risks and benefits. In th…
From “mutual respect” to “intercultural respect
From the nineteenth century to the present day, external peoples, companies, and governments have perpetrated disrespectful attitudes and behaviours toward Amazonian Originary Peoples. In response, Originary Peoples have increasingly adopted their own protocols of respectful interactions with external actors. However, research on the development and implementation of intercultural understandings of "respect" in pluri-cultural interactions has bee…
What a Small Group of People Can(’t) Do
A growing body of scholars in natural resources management have called for the examination of the roles of social capital and social networks in the effective maintenance of community-based projects. Yet, the role of social capital in collective action cannot be effectively understood without studying agency. The goal of this study is to examine how agents’ individual characteristics and their structural social capital, along with broader cogniti…
Surprisingly malleable public preferences for climate adaptation in forests
Researchers and policy-makers often assume that public preferences for climate change adaptation are positive and stable compared to those of mitigation. However, public judgments about adaptation in natural resource sectors (like forestry) require that people make difficult, value-laden and uncertain trade-offs across complex social-ecological systems. The deliberative methods (e.g. focus groups and in-depth interviews) that are typically used t…
Biotechnologies in agriculture and forestry
What do Canadians think about economic growth, prosperity and the environment
Shifts in Mapuche Food Systems in Southern Andean Forest Landscapes
Mountain communities that use local foods are more likely to be food secure over time. However, historical and contemporary policies have largely homogenized food systems by replacing diverse local foodstuffs with less diverse market-based foods. These transformations often mean that nutrition-related chronic diseases increase. We explored current and past food systems of families living in Andean landscapes in Mapuche territory, Chile. We record…
How institutions shape trust during collective action
Squaring the circle
Critical success factors for small and medium forest enterprises
Going deeper with documents
Maintaining accountability between levels of governance in Indigenous economic development
Many Indigenous communities in Canada have established economic development corporations (EDCs) to support economic development that meets community goals. Indigenous EDCs, like social enterprises, typically prioritize multiple socio‐economic goals and may be used to limit political influence on business operations; however, complete separation can be detrimental to success. This article explores formal mechanisms used by Indigenous EDCs to maint…
Differential Effects of Cognitive and Structural Social Capital on Empowerment in Two Community Ecotourism Projects in Ghana
Researchers have cautioned against both erasing conceptual complexities and homogenizing communities in community-based natural resources (CBNRM) studies and interventions. Social capital is seen as an enabler of CBNRM, yet we argue that differential access to social capital and associated outcomes deserves greater attention to avoid oversimplification of community interventions. Drawing upon literature on social networks and social capital, we a…
The evolution of forest producer associations and their current role in Redd
How Can We Teach Our Children if We Cannot Access the Forest? Generational Change in Mapuche Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in Andean Temperate Ecosystems of Chile
For many indigenous peoples, the contributions of wild edible plants go well beyond nourishment; they are often also used as dye and medicines, as well as markers of identity. However, historical and contemporary processes of land grabbing, forest loss, acculturation, and lifestyle changes may erode the transmission of plant knowledge to new generations. In this paper, we document 1) the botanical knowledge of wild edible plants and 2) perceived …
Forest Stewardship Council certification for forest ecosystem services
Illegal logging in Cameroon
Exploring public perceptions of forest adaptation strategies in Western Canada
Biotechnologies in agriculture and forestry
Squaring the circle
Differential Effects of Cognitive and Structural Social Capital on Empowerment in Two Community Ecotourism Projects in Ghana
Researchers have cautioned against both erasing conceptual complexities and homogenizing communities in community-based natural resources (CBNRM) studies and interventions. Social capital is seen as an enabler of CBNRM, yet we argue that differential access to social capital and associated outcomes deserves greater attention to avoid oversimplification of community interventions. Drawing upon literature on social networks and social capital, we a…
Is Decentralization Leading to "Real" Decision-Making Power for Forest-dependent Communities? Case Studies from Mexico and Brazil
Hajjar, R. F., R. A. Kozak, and J. L. Innes. 2012. Is decentralization leading to “real” decision-making power for forest-dependent communities? Case studies from Mexico and Brazil. Ecology and Society 17(1): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04570-170112
From “mutual respect” to “intercultural respect
From the nineteenth century to the present day, external peoples, companies, and governments have perpetrated disrespectful attitudes and behaviours toward Amazonian Originary Peoples. In response, Originary Peoples have increasingly adopted their own protocols of respectful interactions with external actors. However, research on the development and implementation of intercultural understandings of "respect" in pluri-cultural interactions has bee…
Maintaining accountability between levels of governance in Indigenous economic development
Many Indigenous communities in Canada have established economic development corporations (EDCs) to support economic development that meets community goals. Indigenous EDCs, like social enterprises, typically prioritize multiple socio‐economic goals and may be used to limit political influence on business operations; however, complete separation can be detrimental to success. This article explores formal mechanisms used by Indigenous EDCs to maint…
Comparative life cycle assessments
Monitoring and information reporting for sustainable forest management
A scenario process for urban forest design at the neighbourhood level
Urban forests are facing multiple future challenges. In order for urban forest designs to successfully respond to these challenges, we must explore new approaches that allow for meaningful and rich transdisciplinary conversation and assessment of the trade-offs and co-benefits of a range of options. Scenarios are increasingly being used by numerous disciplines to help understand complex futures, but to be useful they must follow a defensible desi…
Whose expertise counts? Assisted migration and the politics of knowledge in British Columbia’s public forests
The assisted migration (AM) of trees is increasingly being proposed and trialed to adapt forest management to the impacts of climate change. While institutional and risk perception dimensions of AM are increasingly well-studied, a key gap that remains is to understand how current institutional practices shape the types of knowledge that are considered in AM policy development, and how this in turn makes visible different risks and benefits. In th…
Forest Stewardship Council certification for forest ecosystem services
How consumers value healthy houses
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves
Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized as areas of cultural and religious importance to local people. In some cases, the entire community guards against the desecration of, or unauthorized access to, such sites, either by its members or outsiders; in others, non-recognition of customary rights is linked to degradation. This paper uses the case study of three sacred groves in southwest Nige…
How institutions shape trust during collective action
Using a gender perspective to explore forest dependence in rural HIV/Aids-affected Malawian households
Community forests for forest communities
What factors influence obtaining forest certification in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Relations interorganisationnelles et création de valeur. Synthèse et perspectives
This study provides a better understanding of interfirm relationships (IRs) as a means of value creation. Based on a comprehensive cross-disciplinary literature review, a conceptual framework is put forth which integrates aspects of the business environment, as well as the nature, governance, and outcomes of IRs. The linkages between these four key elements indicate that value creation varies depending on firms? marketing orientations and the coh…
Monitoring and information reporting for sustainable forest management
Dwelling in Dialogues
Home" may be understood as an intangible concept separate from its material manifestation—the tangible place where one dwells, the house. However, this is not necessarily the way people experience the two concepts of "home" and "house". In daily life, both the experience of the tangible and the intangible dimensions of "home" may be inextricably linked. To explore how lived religion and spirituality relate to these dimensions, we engaged practici…
What factors influence obtaining forest certification in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
How consumers value healthy houses
Illegal logging in Cameroon
Is Decentralization Leading to "Real" Decision-Making Power for Forest-dependent Communities? Case Studies from Mexico and Brazil
Hajjar, R. F., R. A. Kozak, and J. L. Innes. 2012. Is decentralization leading to “real” decision-making power for forest-dependent communities? Case studies from Mexico and Brazil. Ecology and Society 17(1): 12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04570-170112
Assessing Small and Medium Forest Enterprises' Access to Microfinance
Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) are commonplace in many developing economies. SMFEs often face several challenges, with access to finance frequently being cited as a key hurdle. This study aimed to evaluate the access that SMFEs in The Gambia have to microfinance, and to determine strategies for improving the delivery of these services. Data show that most SMFEs have decent access to deposit accounts, but limited access to credit. Whi…
Community forests for forest communities
Using a gender perspective to explore forest dependence in rural HIV/Aids-affected Malawian households
Comparative life cycle assessments
Exploring public perceptions of forest adaptation strategies in Western Canada
How Can We Teach Our Children if We Cannot Access the Forest? Generational Change in Mapuche Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in Andean Temperate Ecosystems of Chile
For many indigenous peoples, the contributions of wild edible plants go well beyond nourishment; they are often also used as dye and medicines, as well as markers of identity. However, historical and contemporary processes of land grabbing, forest loss, acculturation, and lifestyle changes may erode the transmission of plant knowledge to new generations. In this paper, we document 1) the botanical knowledge of wild edible plants and 2) perceived …
Forest Stewardship Council certification for forest ecosystem services
Differential Effects of Cognitive and Structural Social Capital on Empowerment in Two Community Ecotourism Projects in Ghana
Researchers have cautioned against both erasing conceptual complexities and homogenizing communities in community-based natural resources (CBNRM) studies and interventions. Social capital is seen as an enabler of CBNRM, yet we argue that differential access to social capital and associated outcomes deserves greater attention to avoid oversimplification of community interventions. Drawing upon literature on social networks and social capital, we a…
The evolution of forest producer associations and their current role in Redd
Critical success factors for small and medium forest enterprises
Going deeper with documents
Maintaining accountability between levels of governance in Indigenous economic development
Many Indigenous communities in Canada have established economic development corporations (EDCs) to support economic development that meets community goals. Indigenous EDCs, like social enterprises, typically prioritize multiple socio‐economic goals and may be used to limit political influence on business operations; however, complete separation can be detrimental to success. This article explores formal mechanisms used by Indigenous EDCs to maint…
What do Canadians think about economic growth, prosperity and the environment
Shifts in Mapuche Food Systems in Southern Andean Forest Landscapes
Mountain communities that use local foods are more likely to be food secure over time. However, historical and contemporary policies have largely homogenized food systems by replacing diverse local foodstuffs with less diverse market-based foods. These transformations often mean that nutrition-related chronic diseases increase. We explored current and past food systems of families living in Andean landscapes in Mapuche territory, Chile. We record…
How institutions shape trust during collective action
Squaring the circle
What a Small Group of People Can(’t) Do
A growing body of scholars in natural resources management have called for the examination of the roles of social capital and social networks in the effective maintenance of community-based projects. Yet, the role of social capital in collective action cannot be effectively understood without studying agency. The goal of this study is to examine how agents’ individual characteristics and their structural social capital, along with broader cogniti…
Surprisingly malleable public preferences for climate adaptation in forests
Researchers and policy-makers often assume that public preferences for climate change adaptation are positive and stable compared to those of mitigation. However, public judgments about adaptation in natural resource sectors (like forestry) require that people make difficult, value-laden and uncertain trade-offs across complex social-ecological systems. The deliberative methods (e.g. focus groups and in-depth interviews) that are typically used t…
Geography (26 works) · Economics (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Business (19 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Forestry (10 works) · Psychology (10 works)