Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability, UBC
BA (UBC), MA (UNM), PhD (UNM)
Terre Satterfield is Professor of Culture, Risk and the Environment in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. She is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist interested in problems of meaning and measurement in environmental management contexts. Her work adapts insights from anthropology and behavioural decision theory to understand how people perceive the risks of new technologies, and how biocultural and related value-based approaches to assessment might improve our understanding of both wild and anthropogenic marine- and landscapes. Decision contexts in which this work has been trialed include: biodiversity conservation, climate solutions, impact assessment, valuation of loss, and the regulation of food, fishing and new technologies more broadly. She has supervised more than 30 PhD students through completion. Her scholarship includes 3 books as well as publications in Science, Nature, PNAS, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Science and Technology, Climatic Change, Energy Research and Social Science, Ecological Economics, Conservation Biology, World Development, Environmental Science and Policy, etc. She is currently editor for Ecological Economics, and is a member of the federal government’s Climate Change Advisory Committee at the Impact and Innovation Unit in the Privy Council Office.