Nathan Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 101763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2927-7025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Supporting frontline workers in the biodiversity crisis by empowering and enabling practitioners to embrace conservation evidence
Caught in the middle - Inaction and overlap in governance and decision-making for Canada’s imperiled wild steelhead
Biodiversity loss is one of the most serious challenges facing humanity and planetary well-being. Even for iconic species of great cultural and symbolic value, we are largely failing to preserve them and the habitats upon which they depend. This article analyzes one such troubling case, the precipitous decline of wild steelhead ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) populations in British Columbia’s Thompson River. These populations are declining despite high l…
What is ‘good evidence’ for environmental decision making? Insights from professionals working at the science-policy interface
Collaboration and engagement with decision-makers are needed to reduce evidence complacency in wildlife management
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service
Successes and shortcomings of phonological accounts of Scandinavian object shift
Object shift (OS) is a word order phenomenon in Scandinavian languages where under some circumstances the object appears before a sentential adverb. Despite the frequent assumptions that word order is determined in syntax, and despite the link of OS and syntactic phenomena like V2, there is no consensus that OS is a syntactic phenomenon. Particularly, it has been observed that OS targets specifically prosodically weak elements. This motivated rec…
Ethical ecosurveillance: Mitigating the potential impacts on humans of widespread environmental monitoring
Ecosurveillance has proliferated in recent years, generating vast amounts of data on the natural environment. Ecosurveillance also has significant potential impacts on humans; therefore, researchers and policymakers need new conceptual tools to anticipate and mitigate any negative effects. Surveillance studies is an interdisciplinary field in the social sciences, providing a number of insights and practical lessons for predicting and managing the…
Climate change adaptation and adaptive efficacy in the inland fisheries of the Lake Victoria basin
Inland fisheries support the livelihoods of millions of people in riparian communities worldwide but are influenced by increasing climate variability and change. Freshwater fishing societies are among the most vulnerable to climate change given their dependence on highly threatened aquatic resources. As climate change intensifies, building adaptive capacity within communities and understanding the efficacy of adaptive strategies for maintaining h…
Do environmental systematic reviews impact policy and practice? Author perspectives on the application of their work
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times by David Berliner is a page-turner, perhaps an unlikely adjective for a book interwoven with disciplinary theory. Yet the discussion remains lively; it never strays from Berliner's engaging ethnographical accounts. The brevity of the book is inversely proportional to the scope of the author's deliberation and argument. In the introduction, he sets the discursive table with four brief …
Digital Ottoman Studies
An Ottoman miniature portrait and workmates with laptops. Hand-scripted manuscripts and a disposable Starbucks-style to-go coffee cup. A circuit board and an antique Bosporus Strait map on a computer screen. Elegant and striking, these images are splashed across the homepage of the Digital Ottoman Studies website (DOS). Their juxtaposition intimates the aspirations of DOS: historical materials brought to life through state-of-the-art technology.D…
“Two‐Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we move beyond the all‐too‐common narrative about integrating or incorporating (too often used as euphemisms for assimilating) other knowledge systems into Western science, instead of building an ethic of knowledge coexistence and complementarity in knowl…
Action research to improve water quality in Canada ’ s Rideau Canal: How do local groups reshape environmental governance
The historic Rideau Canal, spanning 200 km between the Canadian cities of Ottawa and Kingston, is a world heritage site and recreational waterway. The waterway presents a governance challenge, with multiple jurisdictions and agencies responsible for its management, making it difficult to establish a common vision to address environmental issues. Local stakeholders are concerned about toxic algal blooms in the downstream section of the Canal (the …
The role of western‐based scientific, Indigenous and local knowledge in wildlife management and conservation
Managers of wildlife are faced with decisions and issues that are increasingly complex, spanning natural and human dimensions (i.e. values, preferences, attitudes). A strong evidence base that includes multiple forms and sources of knowledge is needed to support these complex decisions. However, a growing body of literature demonstrates that environmental managers are far more likely to draw on intuition, past experience or opinion to inform impo…
On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: Perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals
The theory-practice gap (TPG) is well known in the environmental realm, referring to disconnects between knowledge generated through scientific research and the needs, expectations, and practices of knowledge users for environmental decision-making and practice. While the presence of the TPG is well established, we have yet to fully implement mechanisms for overcoming its challenges. Thus, our goal is to characterize the TPG and identify practica…
Promises and pitfalls of digital knowledge exchange resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic
Insights from a novel, user-driven science transfer program for resource management
Research results are often not easily accessible or readily digestible for decision-making by natural resource managers. This knowledge-action gap is due to various factors including the time lag between new knowledge generation and its transfer, lack of formal management structures, and institutional inertia to its uptake. Herein, we reflect on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s Science Transfer Program and its evolution from ‘Mode 1’ (i.e., s…
Overcoming barriers to transfer of scientific knowledge: Integrating biotelemetry into fisheries management in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Collaborative knowledge mapping to inform environmental policy-making: The case of Canada’s Rideau Canal National Historic Site
Fisheries knowledge exchange and mobilization through a network of policy and practice actors
Science transformed? A comparative analysis of ‘societal relevance’ rhetoric and practices in 14 Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence
One of the most hotly debated ideas in science studies is the claim that contemporary science is in the midst of a transformation. While ‘transformationalist’ arguments and concepts vary, their core principle is that the norms, values and practices that have enforced the separation of science from society are being challenged by new expectations that scientists pursue closer connections with industry, government and/or civil society, and address …
Knowledge users’ perspectives and advice on how to improve knowledge exchange and mobilization in the case of a co-managed fishery
Getting past the blame game: Convergence and divergence in perceived threats to salmon resources among anglers and indigenous fishers in Canada’s lower Fraser River
Working the fringes: The role of letters to the editor in advancing non-standard media narratives about climate change
This article examines the role of letters to the editor in advancing and sustaining non-standard narratives about climate change in the print media. The letters page is a unique section of the newspaper that is subject to distinct functional and normative pressures. It is also a place where standard media norms are weakest and non-journalistic narratives have an opportunity to leak in. Using research into climate change coverage in eight major Ca…
Government, Anti-Reflexivity, and the Construction of Public Ignorance about Climate Change: Australia and Canada Compared
This article compares the political strategies used by conservative governments in Australia (John Howard) and Canada (Stephen Harper) to manage public impressions of climate change and climate change policy. These cases are significant in part because both governments acted against the weight of domestic public opinion. While many studies of political resistance to climate change mitigation focus on the role of denial, skepticism, and counter-cl…
Seeing climate change: The visual construction of global warming in Canadian national print media
Visual communication is a critical but frequently under-estimated contributor to the 'social and cultural life' of environmental issues. This paper uses both content and discourse analysis to examine how visual communication is deployed in print media coverage of climate change issues in Canada. The Canadian case is internationally significant, given that Canada ratified the Kyoto Protocol but has since become obstructionist on the global stage. …
Government, Anti-Reflexivity, and the Construction of Public Ignorance about Climate Change: Australia and Canada Compared
This article compares the political strategies used by conservative governments in Australia (John Howard) and Canada (Stephen Harper) to manage public impressions of climate change and climate change policy. These cases are significant in part because both governments acted against the weight of domestic public opinion. While many studies of political resistance to climate change mitigation focus on the role of denial, skepticism, and counter-cl…
Representations of Climate Change in Canadian National Print Media: The Banalization of Global Warming
L'article ausculte des tendances longitudinales dans la couverture médiatique d'enjeux reliés aux changements climatiques au sein des journaux canadiens à distribution nationale. Nous constatons que cette couverture est devenu moins nuancée et davantage restreinte sur le plan thématique au fil du temps malgré le fait que les changements climatiques constituent aujourd'hui un enjeu scientifique et politique à polyvalence marquée. Bien que le conte…
Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada
This paper compares paths to employment (job-finding) in prosperous cities and economically-stressed rural communities in Canada. Since the pioneering work of Mark Granovetter (1973; 1974) , sociologists have investigated the role of social capital in job-finding (specifically, the use of strong and weak social ties to find out about employment opportunities). To date, however, there have been few direct comparisons of job-finding in urban and ru…
Radical Neoliberalism in British Columbia: Remaking Rural Geographies
Radical Neoliberalism in British Columbia: Remaking Rural Geographies Abstract Abstract. This paper argues that rural regions of British Columbia, Canada, are currently the subject of a radical political-economic experiment dismantling traditional Fordist and Keynesian approaches to economic development and replacing them with neoliberal strategies. This experiment targets both corporate resource economies and local or community-based economies. …
Distance as a hybrid actor in rural economies
Comparing Climate Change Coverage in Canadian English and French-Language Print Media: Environmental Values, Media Cultures, and the Narration of Global Warming
This article compares how climate change is presented in English- and French-language print media in Canada. In recent years, climate change has become an increasingly divisive issue, with the media playing a central role in the promotion of competing claims and narratives in the public sphere. Using concepts from environmental sociology and the sociology of journalism, we examine content from six English- and two French-language newspapers from …
Putting on the moves: Individual, household, and community-level determinants of residential mobility in Canada
Internal residential mobility is an important contributor to economic vitality, helping to address gaps in the labour market, assisting regions to develop comparative advantages, and encouraging the circulation of skills, capital, and networks within a cou
Resource economies and neoliberal experimentation: The reform of industry and community in rural British Columbia
This paper argues that the current literature on neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies has concentrated primarily on urban issues, and has thus failed to see resource economies and regions as theoretically significant sites of neoliberal reform. Using research from British Columbia, Canada, we argue that resource regions are often targets of intense neoliberal experimentation. The neoliberal project in British Columbia involves an extrem…
Knowledge users’ perspectives and advice on how to improve knowledge exchange and mobilization in the case of a co-managed fishery
Fisheries knowledge exchange and mobilization through a network of policy and practice actors
Globalization from the Edge: A Framework for Understanding How Small and Medium-Sized Firms in the Periphery 'Go Global
The great majority of theoretical and empirical writing on economic globalization continues to focus on urban and semiurban regions, while largely ignoring the vast rural and peripheral spaces of the world. This paper uses research with small and medium-sized enterprises in remote regions of British Columbia, Canada, to develop a way of understanding the unique practices involved in 'performing' global economic action from the rural periphery. Sp…
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange: Insights from practitioners at the Canadian Forest Service
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times by David Berliner is a page-turner, perhaps an unlikely adjective for a book interwoven with disciplinary theory. Yet the discussion remains lively; it never strays from Berliner's engaging ethnographical accounts. The brevity of the book is inversely proportional to the scope of the author's deliberation and argument. In the introduction, he sets the discursive table with four brief …
(Mis)managing a risk controversy: The Canadian salmon aquaculture industry’s responses to organized and local opposition
In the past few years, salmon aquaculture has become one of Canada’s most controversial industries. Environmentalist and other oppositional groups have mounted aggressive communications campaigns on issues such as the environmental and health impacts of the industry. In coastal regions, local opinion is divided, with some stakeholders and First Nations (indigenous) groups vehemently opposing the industry, while others see it as an important contr…
Distance as a hybrid actor in rural economies
Experts’ understanding of the public: Knowledge control in a risk controversy
This paper reverses the common emphasis in the literature on public understanding of science by examining “experts’ understanding of the public.” This research uses the case of aquaculture in Canada, a highly contested mode of production that has divided the scientific community and public opinion. Using a survey of 300 aquaculture experts in Canada, we examine three dimensions of experts’ understanding of public “contributions” to this controver…
Resource economies and neoliberal experimentation: The reform of industry and community in rural British Columbia
This paper argues that the current literature on neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies has concentrated primarily on urban issues, and has thus failed to see resource economies and regions as theoretically significant sites of neoliberal reform. Using research from British Columbia, Canada, we argue that resource regions are often targets of intense neoliberal experimentation. The neoliberal project in British Columbia involves an extrem…
Radical Neoliberalism in British Columbia: Remaking Rural Geographies
Radical Neoliberalism in British Columbia: Remaking Rural Geographies Abstract Abstract. This paper argues that rural regions of British Columbia, Canada, are currently the subject of a radical political-economic experiment dismantling traditional Fordist and Keynesian approaches to economic development and replacing them with neoliberal strategies. This experiment targets both corporate resource economies and local or community-based economies. …
Social Capital, Labour Markets, and Job-Finding in Urban and Rural Regions: Comparing Paths to Employment in Prosperous Cities and Stressed Rural Communities in Canada
This paper compares paths to employment (job-finding) in prosperous cities and economically-stressed rural communities in Canada. Since the pioneering work of Mark Granovetter (1973; 1974) , sociologists have investigated the role of social capital in job-finding (specifically, the use of strong and weak social ties to find out about employment opportunities). To date, however, there have been few direct comparisons of job-finding in urban and ru…
(Mis)managing a risk controversy: The Canadian salmon aquaculture industry’s responses to organized and local opposition
In the past few years, salmon aquaculture has become one of Canada’s most controversial industries. Environmentalist and other oppositional groups have mounted aggressive communications campaigns on issues such as the environmental and health impacts of the industry. In coastal regions, local opinion is divided, with some stakeholders and First Nations (indigenous) groups vehemently opposing the industry, while others see it as an important contr…
Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe, Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy
Globalization from the Edge: A Framework for Understanding How Small and Medium-Sized Firms in the Periphery 'Go Global
The great majority of theoretical and empirical writing on economic globalization continues to focus on urban and semiurban regions, while largely ignoring the vast rural and peripheral spaces of the world. This paper uses research with small and medium-sized enterprises in remote regions of British Columbia, Canada, to develop a way of understanding the unique practices involved in 'performing' global economic action from the rural periphery. Sp…
Representations of Climate Change in Canadian National Print Media: The Banalization of Global Warming
L'article ausculte des tendances longitudinales dans la couverture médiatique d'enjeux reliés aux changements climatiques au sein des journaux canadiens à distribution nationale. Nous constatons que cette couverture est devenu moins nuancée et davantage restreinte sur le plan thématique au fil du temps malgré le fait que les changements climatiques constituent aujourd'hui un enjeu scientifique et politique à polyvalence marquée. Bien que le conte…
Nico Stehr and Rainer Grundmann, Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise
Seeing climate change: The visual construction of global warming in Canadian national print media
Visual communication is a critical but frequently under-estimated contributor to the 'social and cultural life' of environmental issues. This paper uses both content and discourse analysis to examine how visual communication is deployed in print media coverage of climate change issues in Canada. The Canadian case is internationally significant, given that Canada ratified the Kyoto Protocol but has since become obstructionist on the global stage. …
Comparing Climate Change Coverage in Canadian English and French-Language Print Media: Environmental Values, Media Cultures, and the Narration of Global Warming
This article compares how climate change is presented in English- and French-language print media in Canada. In recent years, climate change has become an increasingly divisive issue, with the media playing a central role in the promotion of competing claims and narratives in the public sphere. Using concepts from environmental sociology and the sociology of journalism, we examine content from six English- and two French-language newspapers from …
Working the fringes: The role of letters to the editor in advancing non-standard media narratives about climate change
This article examines the role of letters to the editor in advancing and sustaining non-standard narratives about climate change in the print media. The letters page is a unique section of the newspaper that is subject to distinct functional and normative pressures. It is also a place where standard media norms are weakest and non-journalistic narratives have an opportunity to leak in. Using research into climate change coverage in eight major Ca…
Government, Anti-Reflexivity, and the Construction of Public Ignorance about Climate Change: Australia and Canada Compared
This article compares the political strategies used by conservative governments in Australia (John Howard) and Canada (Stephen Harper) to manage public impressions of climate change and climate change policy. These cases are significant in part because both governments acted against the weight of domestic public opinion. While many studies of political resistance to climate change mitigation focus on the role of denial, skepticism, and counter-cl…
Putting on the moves: Individual, household, and community-level determinants of residential mobility in Canada
Internal residential mobility is an important contributor to economic vitality, helping to address gaps in the labour market, assisting regions to develop comparative advantages, and encouraging the circulation of skills, capital, and networks within a cou
Science transformed? A comparative analysis of ‘societal relevance’ rhetoric and practices in 14 Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence
One of the most hotly debated ideas in science studies is the claim that contemporary science is in the midst of a transformation. While ‘transformationalist’ arguments and concepts vary, their core principle is that the norms, values and practices that have enforced the separation of science from society are being challenged by new expectations that scientists pursue closer connections with industry, government and/or civil society, and address …
Knowledge users’ perspectives and advice on how to improve knowledge exchange and mobilization in the case of a co-managed fishery
Getting past the blame game: Convergence and divergence in perceived threats to salmon resources among anglers and indigenous fishers in Canada’s lower Fraser River
“Two‐Eyed Seeing”: An Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we move beyond the all‐too‐common narrative about integrating or incorporating (too often used as euphemisms for assimilating) other knowledge systems into Western science, instead of building an ethic of knowledge coexistence and complementarity in knowl…
Action research to improve water quality in Canada ’ s Rideau Canal: How do local groups reshape environmental governance
The historic Rideau Canal, spanning 200 km between the Canadian cities of Ottawa and Kingston, is a world heritage site and recreational waterway. The waterway presents a governance challenge, with multiple jurisdictions and agencies responsible for its management, making it difficult to establish a common vision to address environmental issues. Local stakeholders are concerned about toxic algal blooms in the downstream section of the Canal (the …
The role of western‐based scientific, Indigenous and local knowledge in wildlife management and conservation
Managers of wildlife are faced with decisions and issues that are increasingly complex, spanning natural and human dimensions (i.e. values, preferences, attitudes). A strong evidence base that includes multiple forms and sources of knowledge is needed to support these complex decisions. However, a growing body of literature demonstrates that environmental managers are far more likely to draw on intuition, past experience or opinion to inform impo…
On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: Perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals
The theory-practice gap (TPG) is well known in the environmental realm, referring to disconnects between knowledge generated through scientific research and the needs, expectations, and practices of knowledge users for environmental decision-making and practice. While the presence of the TPG is well established, we have yet to fully implement mechanisms for overcoming its challenges. Thus, our goal is to characterize the TPG and identify practica…
Promises and pitfalls of digital knowledge exchange resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic
Insights from a novel, user-driven science transfer program for resource management
Research results are often not easily accessible or readily digestible for decision-making by natural resource managers. This knowledge-action gap is due to various factors including the time lag between new knowledge generation and its transfer, lack of formal management structures, and institutional inertia to its uptake. Herein, we reflect on the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s Science Transfer Program and its evolution from ‘Mode 1’ (i.e., s…
Overcoming barriers to transfer of scientific knowledge: Integrating biotelemetry into fisheries management in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Knowledge management (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Ecology (8 works)