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I am Mohawk-Ukrainian and member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. As a community-engaged practitioner and researcher, I have over 25 years of experience working with and within First Nations communities in lands and resources, education and training, and research and capacity-building. My interdisciplinary research focuses on water planning, management, and governance in the context of security, sustainability, justice, and change.
I am a Laurier graduate with a PhD (2013) and MA (1996) in Geography. I also hold a BEd from Brock University (1996), and honours BES from the University of Waterloo (1992). Prior to joining Laurier in January 2024, I was an associate professor in Rural Planning and Development, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph.
For more information on my diverse career experiences please find me on LinkedIn.
My interdisciplinary research focuses on water planning, management, and governance in the context of security, sustainability, justice, and change, with an emphasis on elevating Indigenous Peoples voices, knowledge, and experiences to inform policy and practice.
- Decentralised Drinking Water and Wastewater in First Nations: Technical Issues and Community-level Risk Identification and Management Solutions (Canada, National Scope)
- Advancing the Science of Knowledge Translation and Transfer using a Community-Engagement Approach: Co-Developing Private Water Well Best Management Practice Awareness and Education Materials (Ontario scope)
- Collaborative Water Services Between First Nations and Municipalities in Ontario
I have research assistantships opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in water resources and/or with direct experience in community engaged qualitative research or Indigenous research. I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of water resources, climate change, Indigenous self-determination, and related interdisciplinary collaborative research to support Indigenous community planning.
Mehltretter, S., Bradford, A., Longboat, S., Luby, B. (2024) In a Good Way: Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand and Restore Freshwater Systems. Water 16, 934. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16070934
Brubacher, L.J., Peach, L., Chen, T.T.-W., Longboat, S., Dodd, W., Elliott, S.J., et al. (2024) Climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing: A systematic umbrella review. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(3): e0002995. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0002995
Reed, G., Brunet, N.D., McGregor, D., Scurr, C., Sadik, T., Lavigne, J., & Longboat, S. (2024). There’s no word for ‘nature’ in our language: Rethinking nature-based solutions from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples located in Canada. Climatic Change 177(32). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03682-w
Sadowsky, H., Brunet, N., Anaviapik, A., Kublu, A., Longboat, S., & Henri, D. (2024). A typology of Inuit youth engagement in environmental research. Arctic Science. Just-IN https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2023-0026
Brubacher, L. J., Chen, T. T. W., Longboat, S., Dodd, W., Peach, L., Elliott, S. J., Patterson, K. & Neufeld, H. (2024). Climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous Peoples’ health and wellbeing: a systematic umbrella review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 13(8), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02423-x
Brunet, N. D., Longboat, S., & Asuncion, A. M. (2023). Introduction: Mine-community relations in the Global North and South. In Local Communities and the Mining Industry (pp. 1-13). Routledge.
Major, C., Longboat, S., & Sarapura-Escobar, S. (2023). Gender, indigeneity and mining. In Local Communities and the Mining Industry (pp. 75-99). Routledge.
Doxtator, B., Longboat, S., Longstaffe, J., & Mastej, E. (2022). First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program: Integrating existing knowledge on potential contaminated sites within the Nation. Rural Review: Ontario Rural Planning, Development, and Policy, 6(1).
Kulak, V., Longboat, S., Brunet, N. D., Shukla, M., & Saxena, P. (2022). In Vitro technology in plant conservation: Relevance to biocultural diversity. Plants, 11(4), 503.
Reed, G., Brunet, N.B., Longboat, S., & Natcher, D.C. (2020). Indigenous guardians as an emerging approach to Indigenous environmental governance. Conservation Biology.
Alcantara, C., Longboat, S., & Vanhooren, S. (2020). Improving First Nations water security through governance. Canadian Public Administration, 63(2), 155-176.
Taylor, K.S., Longboat, S., & Grafton, R.Q. (2019). Whose rules? A water justice critique of the OECD's 12 principles on water Governance. Water, 11(4), 809-828.
Perez, M. A., & Longboat, S. (2019). Our shared relationship with land and water: Perspectives from the Mayangna and the Anishinaabe. Ecopsychology, 11(3), 191-198.
Longboat, S. (2015). First Nations water security: Security for Mother Earth. Journal of Canadian Woman Studies, 30(2/3), 6-13.
- ES297: Climate Chnge and Collective Action
Book
Brunet, N. D., & Longboat, S. (2023). Local Communities and the Mining Industry: Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities (p. 207). Taylor & Francis. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63049
Report
Mehltretter, S., Longboat, S., Luby, B., & Bradford, A. (2023). Indigenous and Western Knowledge: Bringing Diverse Understandings of Water Together in Practice. Technical Report, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris. https://watercommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Mehltretter.pdf
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