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Department of Geography
91ÑÇÉ« of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X9
Office: SN-1034
Tel: (709) 864-7912
Fax: (709) 864-3119
geralds[at]mun[dot]ca

Research

	Globalization, Economy & Resources
	Sustainable Communities & Regions
	Climate & Environmental Change

My research is primarily situated in the science-policy interface, and focused on understanding the dynamics between social, economic, and environmental dimensions in sustainable development. This focus takes form in the following ways: 1) assessing cumulative anthropogenic impacts on the environment and understanding the consequences to people; 2) determine priority policy actions and plans to achieve specific sustainable development objectives (particularly the Sustainable Development Goals); 3) understand risk and uncertainty in sustainability policy and management. Doing work in any one of these areas means navigating data gaps, and I use a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as structured expert elicitation, in my research.

Current and recent research projects:
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Education
Nippon Foundation Nereus Program fellow (2016-2019), University of British Columbia and University of Washington
PhD (2016), University of British Columbia
MSc (2011), University of British Columbia
BSc (2008) University of Alberta

Selected Policy Reports:
Lucks, D., Burgass, M., Beauchamp, E., Lynn, I., Piergallini, I., Best, B., Bukoree, R., Chanda, T., D™Errico, S., Diadhiou, H.D., Donato-Hunt, C., Faye, L.C., Rletcher, R., Galvaign, G., Griffin, H., Kane, R., Islam, M., Leotau, N., Lowndes, J.S., Merayo, E., Mohammed, E., Ngoc, K.T.T., Poudyal, Y.R., Pratap, A., Seye, E.H.B., Singh, G.G., Zelasney, J. 2019. MEL Hanbook for SDG 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. International Institute for Environment and Development. 118 pp.

Ofir, Z., Singh, G.G., Beauchamp, E., Lucks, D., D™Errico, S., El-Saddick, K. 2019. From monitoring goals to system-informed evaluation: insights from SDG14. IIED Briefing. International Institute for Environment and Development. 4 pp.

Warner, R., Wright, G., Turner, P., Crespo, G., Dunn, D., Singh, G.G. 2018. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Envisioning its Application to Marine Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ). Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative Policy Brief. 4 pp.

Singh, G.G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Cheung, W., Ota, Y. 2017. Oceans and Sustainable Development Goals: Co-Benefits, Climate Change, and Social Equity. Nereus Program Annual Report. 27 pp.

Selected Scholarly publications:
For a more complete list please visit my Google Scholar page.

• Singh, G. G., Farjalla, V.F., Chen, B., Pelling, A. E., Ceyhan, E., Dominik, M., Alisic, E., Kerr, J., Selin, N. E., Bassioni, G., Bennett, E., Kemp, A. H., Chan, K. M.. 2019. "Researcher engagement in policy deemed societally beneficial yet unrewarded." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 0(0).
• Singh, G.G., Hilmi, N., Bernhardt, J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Cashion, M., Ota, Y., Acar, S., Brown, J., Cottrell, R., Djoundourian, S., González -Espinosa, P., Lam, V., Marshall, N., Neumann, B., Pascal, N., Reygondeau, G., RocklÓ§v, J., Safa, A., Virto, L.R., Cheung, W. 2019. Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target traveling away from us. People & Nature.
• Spijkers, J., Singh, G.G., Blasiak, R., Morrison, T., Österblum, H. Global patterns of fisheries conflict: forty years of data. Global Environmental Change 57: 101921.
• Clarke Murray, C., Wong, J., Singh, G.G., Mach, M., Lerner, J., Ranieri, B., Peterson St-Laurent, Guimaraes, A., Chan, K.M.A. 2018. The insignificance of thresholds in environmental impact assessments: an illustrative case study in Canada. Environmental Management 61: 1062-1071.
• Tam, J., Chan, K.M.A., Satterfield, T., Singh, G.G., Gelcich, S. 2018. Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries. Marine Policy 90:1-5
• Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Singh, G.G., Cheung, W. 2018. A fuzzy logic expert system for evaluating policy progress towards sustainability goals. Ambio 47: 595-607.
• Singh, G.G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Swartz, W., Cheung, W., Guy, J.A., Kenny, T.A., McOwen, C.J., Asch, R., Geffert, J.L., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Sumaila, R., Hanich, Q., Ota, Y. 2018. A rapid assessment of co-benefits and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals. Marine Policy 93: 223-231.
• Chapman, M., Klassen, S., Kreitzman, M., Semmelink, A., Sharp, K., Singh, G.G., Chan, K.M.A. 2017. 5 key challenges and solutions for governing complex adaptive (food) systems. Sustainability 9: 1594.
• Singh, G.G., Sinner, J., Ellis, J., Kandlikar, M., Chan, K.M.A. 2017. Mechanisms and risk of cumulative impacts to ecosystem services: an expert elicitation approach. Journal of Environmental Management 199: 229-241.
• Singh, G.G., Sinner, J., Ellis, J., Kandlikar, M., Chan, K.M.A. 2017. Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays. PLOS ONE 12: e0182233.
• Clarke Murray, C., Mach, M.E., Martone, R.G., Singh, G.G., O, M., Chan, K.M.A. 2016. Supporting risk assessment: accounting for indirect risk to ecosystem components. PLOS ONE 11: e0162932. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162932.