Dr. Cohen’s research is on the regional impacts of climate and climate change. Dr. Cohen has authored or co-authored nearly 50 publications, including case studies of several regions in central, western and northern Canada. From 1990-1997, Dr. Cohen was the director of the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study (MBIS), a six-year interdisciplinary study on the regional impacts of global warming scenarios in northwest Canada. He was editor and co-author of the MBIS Final Report, which was published by Environment Canada in 1997. He has also consulted with climate impacts research programs in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Norway and the United States, as well as with agencies of the United Nations where he was a Co-ordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Third Assessment Report chapter on North America (Working Group II), and a contributor to the UNEP Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies.

Ongoing activities include assessments of stakeholder responses in the Okanagan-Columbia Basin and participation in the Georgia Basin Futures Project, a study of regional sustainability led by SDRI. He is also on the editorial boards of Climatic Change, and Integrated Assessment (formerly Environmental Modelling and Assessment), and is serving as Science Director of the British Columbia node of the Canadian-Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN BC). He also teaches a graduate course at UBC entitled “Climate Change in the 21st Century.”

Royal Roads University
Science, Technology & Environment Division
edialogues@royalroads.ca