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  • Vietnam’s Carbon Market Readiness🌱🌏

    Carbon for Good project‘s policy dialogue in Hanoi! 🌍 🇻🇳📌 Hosted by VNU–UEB in collaboration with The University of British Columbia, CIFOR-ICRAF, Flinders University, CARE Canada, and other global partners, the event held on Nov 25–26 brought together policymakers, researchers, and industry to shape next‑generation carbon markets in post‑COP30 Vietnam. Vietnam is taking a firm […]

  • New FAO Report Launched at COP30: “Forests Drive Agricultural Success, Not Conflict”

    Terry Sunderland and Sima Fakheran contributed to Chapter 6: Forests Sustaining Agriculture in a new FAO-led report released this week at COP30. The report highlights how protecting and restoring forests is essential for climate-resilient agriculture, rural livelihoods, and global food and water security. You can read the full news release and access the report here: […]

  • UBC Branchlines: Agroforestry Food Production

    UBC Forestry’s latest Branchlines feature highlights global efforts to strengthen agroforestry and smallholder food production as climate change reshapes growing conditions. The article showcases work by researchers, including Terry Sunderland, whose research on shea parklands illustrates how women’s stewardship, knowledge and labour sustain these vital agroforestry systems and bolster both ecological resilience and local livelihoods. […]

  • Forest sanctuaries and spiritual balance in the Karen highlands of Thailand

    The Pgaz K’Nyau Karen, one of Thailand’s largest cultural groups, care for extensive sacred forests and maintain rotational farming systems grounded in long‑standing spiritual and ecological traditions. UBC Forestry professor Terry Sunderland notes that shifting cultivation, when practiced with sufficient fallow periods for forest regeneration, has helped shape many forest landscapes and can even enhance […]

  • 🎓 PhD Milestone Achieved! 🌍

    We’re thrilled to celebrate Dr. Alida O’Connor, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on October 16th, 2025. Her dissertation, titled “Understanding Collaborative Landscape Governance to Inform Integrated Landscape Approaches: Evidence from Ghana and Zambia,” offers valuable insights into inclusive governance and integrated landscape management in complex socio-ecological systems. Alida is the latest PhD graduate from […]

Welcome to the Sunderland Lab at UBC!

Sunderland lab is based in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The lab is led by Dr. Terry Sunderland, Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences. Our research is focused on applied research, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable resource management, and linkages to levering policy influence. For more details, please visit the ‘Research‘ page. For recent updates on our work, please follow Sunderland lab and Dr. Terry Sunderland on LinkedIn!

 

Graduate Opportunities

We appreciate all interest in our lab and graduate studies. Please note that all available positions will be publicly advertised. Currently, there are no open positions, but when opportunities arise, they will be posted on our social media and website. At this time, we kindly request that you refrain from sending unsolicited inquiries regarding graduate opportunities.

 

 

 

Sunderland Lab
Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship
Department of Forest Resources Management
2204 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Email terry.sunderland@ubc.ca
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