Publications

We look forward to sharing our research process, updates, and outputs with you as we move forward! If you have any questions about any of our publications, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Scientific Journal Articles

• Posthuma, L., Bloor, M., Campos, B., Groh, K., Leopold, A., Sanderson, H., Schreiber, H., Schür, C., & Thomas, P. (2024). Debates, Dilemmas, and Discoveries. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 20(1), 294–294. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4877
• Öberg, G., & Scheringer, M. (2024). “Everyone has interests”: A red herring. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4938
• Achar, J., Cronin, M. T. D., Firman, J. W., & Öberg, G. (2024). A problem formulation framework for the application of in silico toxicology methods in chemical risk assessment. Archives of Toxicology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-024-03721-6
• Schäffer, A., Groh, K. J., Sigmund, G., Azoulay, D., Backhaus, T., Bertram, M. G., Carney Almroth, B., Cousins, I. T., Ford, A. T., Grimalt, J. O., Guida, Y., Hansson, M. C., Jeong, Y., Lohmann, R., Michaels, D., Mueller, L., Muncke, J., Öberg, G., Orellana, M. A., … Scheringer, M. (2023). Conflicts of Interest in the Assessment of Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(48), 19066–19077. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04213
• James M. Ataria, Michelle Murphy, Deborah McGregor, Susan Chiblow, Bradley J. Moggridge, Daniel C. H. Hikuroa, Louis A. Tremblay, Gunilla Öberg, Virginia Baker, Bryan W. Brooks (2023). Orienting the Sustainable Management of Chemicals and Waste toward Indigenous Knowledge. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c04600
• Alava, J. J., Jahnke, A., Bergmann, M., Aguirre-Martínez, G. V., Bendell, L., Calle, P., Domínguez, G. A., Faustman, E. M., Falman, J., Kazmiruk, T. N., Klasios, N., Maldonado, M. T., McMullen, K., Moreno-Báez, M., Öberg, G., Ota, Y., Price, D., Shim, W. J., Tirapé, A., … Weis, J. (2023). A Call to Include Plastics in the Global Environment in the Class of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Pollutants. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c02476
• Ramachandran, A., Achar, J., Green, G., Hanson-Wright, B., Leiter, S., & Öberg, G. (2022). Changing Debates and Shifting Landscapes in Science Studies: Exploring How Graduate Students with Varied Backgrounds Think About the Role of Value-Judgments in Science. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 8(2), 133–158. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2022.1179
• Ramachandran, A., Mouat, I. C., & Öberg, G. (2022). Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in science: Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar. Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21768
• Öberg, G., Campbell, A., Fox, J., Graves, M., Ivanochko, T., Matsuchi, L., Mouat, I., & Welsh, A. (2021). Teaching Science as a Process, Not a Set of Facts. Science & Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-021-00253-8
• Dijk, J. van, Leopold, A., Flerlage, H., Wezel, A. van, Seiler, T.-B., Enrici, M.-H., & Bloor, M. C. (2021). The EU Green Deal’s ambition for a toxic-free environment: Filling the gap for science-based policymaking. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4429
• McIlroy-Young, B., Öberg, G., and Leopold, A. (2021). The manufacturing of consensus: A struggle for epistemic authority in chemical risk evaluation. Environmental Science & Policy, 122, 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.003
• Vazquez, M., McIlroy-Young, B., Giang, A., Steel, D., and Öberg, G. (2021).Exploring Scientists’ values by analyzing how they frame nature and uncertainty. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13701.
• McIlroy‐Young, B., Leopold, A., and Öberg, G. (2021). Science, Consensus, and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Rethinking Disagreement in Expert Deliberations. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 17(2), 480–481. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4385
• Öberg, G., Metson, G., Kuwayama, Y., and Conrad, S. (2020). Conventional Sewer Systems are too Time-Consuming, Costly and Inflexible to meet the Challenges of the 21st Century. Sustainability 2020,12, 6518 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166518
• Harder, R., Wielemaker, R., Molander, S., and Öberg G. (2020). Reframing human excreta management as part of food and farming systems. Water Research, 174: 115601
• Öberg, G., Elliott, K., and Leopold, A. (2020). Science Is Political But Should Not Be Partisan. Integrated environmental assessment and management, 16:6-7.
• Öberg, G. and Leopold, A. (2019). On the role of review papers in the face of escalating publication rates – a case study of research on contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Environment International.131 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.104960
• Harder, R., Wielemaker, R., Larsen, T.A., Zeeman, G., and Öberg, G. (2019). Recycling nutrients contained in human excreta to agriculture: Pathways, processes, and products. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 49(8): 695-743
• Öberg, G. and Campbell, A. (2019). Navigating the divide between scientific practice and science studies to support undergraduate teaching of epistemic knowledge. International Journal of Science Education 41(2): 230-247.
• Bajracharya, S., Carenini, G., Chamberlain, B., Chen, K. D., Klein, D., Poole, D., & Öberg, G. (2018). Interactive Visualization for Group Decision-Analysis. International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 17(6): 1839–1864.
• Öberg, G. and Mason-Renton, S.A. (2018). On the limitation of evidence-based policy: Regulatory narratives and land application of biosolids/sewage sludge in BC, Canada and Sweden. Environmental Science & Policy, 84:88-96.
• Mason-Renton, S.A., Vásquez, M., Robinson, C., and Öberg, G. (2018). Science for policy: A case-study of scientific polarization, values, and the framing of risk and uncertainty. Risk Analysis. 39 (6): 1229-1242
  DOI: 10.1111/risa.13248
• Mason-Renton, S.A. and Luginaah, I. (2018). Conceptualizing waste as a Resource: Urban biosolids processing in the rural landscape. The Canadian Geographer, 62:266-281.
• Metson, G., Powers, S.M., Hale, R.L., Sayles, J., Öberg, G., MacDonald, G.K., Kuwayama, Y., Springer, N., Weatherley, A., Hondula, K.L., Jones, K., Chowdhury, R.B., Beusen, A.H.W., and Bouwman, A.F. (2018). Socio-environmental assessment of phosphorus flows in the urban sanitation chain of diverse cities. Regional environmental change, 8:1 387–1401
• Elouazizi, N., Öberg, G. and Birol, G. (2018) Learning technology-enabled (meta)-cognitive scaffolding to support learning aspects of written argumentation. PALE 2018 http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2018/
• Mason-Renton, S.A., Luginaah, I., and Baxter, J. (2016). Community Divide as more Detrimental than the Plant Itself: Confrontational Stigma and Community Responses to Rural Facility Siting. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 11(2):22-44.
• Klein, D. R., and Öberg, G. (2017). Using Existing Municipal Water Data to Support Conservation Efforts. Journal‐American Water Works Association, 109(7), E313-E319.
• Leopold, A., Roberts, M., & Matthiessen, P. (2017). Ecotoxicological hazard and risk assessment of endocrine active substances. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 13(2), 264–266. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1868
• Mason-Renton, S.A. and Luginaah, I. (2016). Interfering with therapeutic tranquility: Debates surrounding biosolid waste processing in rural Ontario. Health and Place, 41:42-49.
• Mason, S.A., Dixon, J., Mambulu, F., Rishworth, A., Mkandawire, P. and Luginaah, I. (2015). Management challenges of urban biosolids: Narratives around facility siting in rural Ontario. Environmental Planning and Management, 58(8):1363-1383.
• Del Carmen Morales, M., Harris, L. and Öberg, G. (2014). Citizenshit – The Right to Flush and the UrbanSanitation Imaginary. Environment and Planning A, 46:2816-2833.
• Öberg G, Merlinsky MG, LaValle A, Del Carmen Morales M and Tobias MM (2014). The Notion of Sewage as Waste – On Institutional Inertia and Infrastructure Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Vancouver, Canada. Ecology and Society, 19(2):19.
• Chamberlain BC, Carenini G, Poole D, Öberg G and Taheri H (2013). A Decision Support System for the Design and Evaluation of Sustainable Wastewater Solutions. IEEE Transactions on Computer Science. Special issue on Computational Sustainability, 63(1):129-141.

Reports

• Klein, D.R., Ebrahimi, G., Navilloz, L., Thurm, B. and Öberg, G. (2014). Water Management at UBC. Background report for the project: Would it make sense to develop an integrated resource management strategy for UBC, using a water lens? Vancouver, BC: Program on Water Governance. Click here for a web-based version of the report.
• Morales, M and Öberg, G, (2012). The Idea of Sewage as a Resource. An Introductory Study of Knowledge and Decision Making in Liquid Waste Management in Metro Vancouver, BC. Canada. UBC’s Program of Water Governance Report.