Research Themes
Biodiversity Conservation | Nature-Based Solutions | Disaster Risk reduction
Geographical Area(s) of Research
British Columbia, Canada
jen.walker@ubc.ca
About
Jen Walker is a Practitioner Fellow in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. She is also a Director in the BC Provincial Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship. Jen aims to leverage this dual role to build deeper public understanding of the interconnectedness between healthy, functioning ecosystems and the services they provide us. She is working to surface and address gaps in knowledge and provincial policy related to the value and success of using natural solutions for disaster risk mitigation. Her goal is to instill conservation-based risk reduction measures as a principle for community-level planning. Jen maintains an interest in her past research which included microbial community responses to climate change, forest practices and habitat quality.