Publications

ECGG member in bold. Student authors underlined.

Academic Publications

  • Wilson, N.J., Montoya, T., Lambrinidou, Y., Harris, L.M., Pauli, B.J., McGregor, D., Patrick, R.J., Gonzalez, S., Pierce, G., Wutich, A., 2022. From “trust” to “trustworthiness”: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 25148486221101460. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221101459

    Wilson, N.J., Lira, M.G., O’Hanlon, G., 2022. A systematic scoping review of Indigenous governance concepts in the climate governance literature. Climatic Change 171, 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-022-03354-7

    Ovitz, K.L., Matari, K., O’Hara, S., Loseto, L.L. Observations of social and environmental change on Kendall Island (Ukiivik), a traditional whaling camp in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Arctic Science.

  • Wilson, N.J., Montoya, T., Arseneault, R., Curley, A., 2021. Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states. Water International 46, 783–801. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2021.1928972

  • Meehan, K., Jepson, W., Harris, L.M., Wutich, A., Beresford, M., Fencl, A., London, J., Pierce, G., Radonic, L., Wells, C., Wilson, N.J., Adams, E.A., Arsenault, R., Brewis, A., Harrington, V., Lambrinidou, Y., McGregor, D., Patrick, R., Pauli, B., Pearson, A.L., Shah, S., Splichalova, D., Workman, C., Young, S., 2020. Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review. WIREs Water 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1486

    Wilson, N.J., 2020. Querying Water Co-Governance: Yukon First Nations and Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claim Agreements. Water Alternatives 13, 93–118.

  • Ovitz, K.L., Johnson, T.R., 2019. Seeking sustainability: employing Ostrom’s SESF to explore spatial fit in Maine’s sea urchin fishery. International journal of the commons 13, 276–302. https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.866

    Wilson, N.J., 2019. “Seeing Water Like a State?”: Indigenous water governance through Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreements. Geoforum 104, 101–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.003

    Wilson, N.J., Harris, L.M., Joseph-Rear, A., Beaumont, J., Satterfield, T., 2019. Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada. Water 11, 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030624

    Wilson, N.J., Harris, L.M., Nelson, J., Shah, S.H., 2019. Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance. Water 11, 1470. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11071470



  • Chapman, D.A., Gagne, T.O., Ovitz, K.L., Griffin, L.P., Danylchuk, A.J., Markowitz, E.M., 2018. Modeling intentions to sanction among anglers in a catch-and-release recreational fishery for golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis) in Salta, Argentina. Human dimensions of wildlife 23, 391–398. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2018.1429034

    Herman-Mercer, N., Antweiler, R., Wilson, N.J., Mutter, E., Toohey, R., Schuster, P., 2018. Data Quality from a Community-Based, Water-Quality Monitoring Project in the Yukon River Basin. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.123

    Shah, S.H., Rodina, L., Burt, J.M., Gregr, E.J., Chapman, M., Williams, S., Wilson, N.J., McDowell, G., 2018. Unpacking social-ecological transformations: Conceptual, ethical and methodological insights. The Anthropocene Review 5, 250–265. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019618817928

    Wilson, N.J., Mutter, E., Inkster, J., Satterfield, T., 2018. Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management 210, 290–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.01.020

    Wilson, N.J., Inkster, J., 2018. Respecting water: Indigenous water governance, ontologies, and the politics of kinship on the ground. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1, 516–538. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618789378



  • Gagne, T.O., Ovitz, K.L., Griffin, L.P., Brownscombe, J.W., Cooke, S.J., Danylchuk, A.J., 2017. Evaluating the consequences of catch-and-release recreational angling on golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis) in Salta, Argentina. Fisheries research 186, 625–633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2016.07.012

    Yates, J.S., Harris, L.M., Wilson, N.J., 2017. Multiple ontologies of water: Politics, conflict and implications for governance. Environ Plan D 35, 797–815. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775817700395


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  • Wilson, N.J., Walter, M.T., Waterhouse, J., 2015. Indigenous knowledge of hydrologic change in the Yukon River basin: a case study of Ruby, Alaska. Arctic 93–106. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4459

  • Wilson, N.J., 2014. Indigenous water governance: Insights from the hydrosocial relations of the Koyukon Athabascan village of Ruby, Alaska. Geoforum 57, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.08.005

    Wilson, N.J., 2014. The Politics of Adaptation: Subsistence Livelihoods and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Koyukon Athabascan Village of Ruby, Alaska. Hum Ecol 42, 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-013-9619-3

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Publications for Public Audiences

  • Mayette, A., Noel, A., Ovitz, K.L., Storrie, E., Sudlovenick, E., Sutherland, E., 2022. Beluga Bulletin:Updates on student projects on beluga in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. (Plain language summary). Plain language summaries shared with the Fisheries Joint Management Committee.

    Ovitz, K.L., Scharffenberg, K., MacPhee, S., Whalen, D., Wolki, F., Illasiak Jr., J., Green-Ruben, D., Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee (PTHC), Loseto, L., 2022. Paulatuk Beluga Drone Project: 2021 Field Season Summary. Plain language summary produced for the Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee (Plain language summary).

    Mayette, A., Noel, A., Ovitz, K. L., Storrie, E., Sudlovenick, E., 2020. Beluga Bulletin:Updates on student projects on beluga in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. (Plain language summary). Plain language summaries shared with the Fisheries Joint Management Committee.

    Wilson, N.J., 2020. We are part of the earth and the water: Developing strategies to protect water (C/TFN water law workshop). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

    Maclean, B., Somers, G., Kotaska, J., Nelson, J., Wilson, N.J., Kanu, A., Munkittrick, Kelly, Cohen, A., Wattie, E., Mutter, E., DuBois, C., Hebert, C., Parent-Doliner, G., Pulsifer, P., Telfer, L., Leech, S., 2018. Elevating Community-Based Water Monitoring in Canada Context for a National Discussion (Discussion Paper). Living Lakes Canada, WWF-Canada, and Gordon Foundation, Ottawa, Canada.

    Wilson, N.J., 2017. Yukon First Nations and Water Governance: Community Report. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

    Wilson, N.J., 2017. Indigenous Observation Network: Evaluating Community-Based Water Quality Monitoring in the Yukon River Basin (Community Report). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CAN.

    Wilson, N.J., Inkster, J., Mutter, E., Jochum, K., McGrath, N., 2015. Water Action Planning Workshop (Community Report). Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Whitehorse, YT.

  • Ovitz, K.L., et al., 2022. Paulatuk Beluga Drone Project 2021 Field Report. Report prepared for Fisheries and Oceans; Fisheries Joint Management Committee; Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee.

    Wilson, N.J., 2020. Best Practices in Indigenous Water Governance: Scoping Options for Carcross/Tagish First Nation. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.