Associate Professor - Human Geography
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Alberta

Selected Publications

  • Garvin, T. In Press. Regulating Participation: The case of sour gas in Alberta. In Political Ecology and Governance of AlbertaVolume I. Edited by L. Adkin et al. Accepted Feb., 2012.

  • McLennan, B.J. & T. Garvin. 2012. Heterogeneous land use and livelihood change during a forest transition in Costa Rica’s dry North West: Sustainability implications. Land Use Policy 29,1: 119-130.

  • McLennan, B.J. &T. Garvin. 2012. Fitting qualitative social research to the information needs of natural resource managers: A methodological trial. Society & Natural Resources 25:4, 400-409. [doi: 10.1080/08941920.2011.557827]

  • Garvin, T. 2011. Book Review: “The Geography of Aging” by Gerald Hodge, 2008 in Canadian Journal on Aging 30:4, 669-671.

  • C. Furgal, T. Garvin & C. Jardine. 2010. Trends in the study of Aboriginal health risk in Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 69,10: 321-332.

  • Pujadas Botey, A. & T. Garvin. 2010. Interdisciplinary Research in Ecosystem Management: A Literature Evaluation. The International Journal of Science in Society. 1:4, 195-214.

  • Castleden, H. , T. Garvin. & Huu-ay-aht First Nation. 2009. ‘Hishuk Tsawak’ (Everything is Connected): A Huu-ay-aht worldview for seeing forestry in British Columbia, Canada. Society & Natural Resources. 22:9, 789-804. [doi: 10.1080/08941920802098198]

  • Calvo-Alvarado, J., B. McLennan, G.A. Sanchez-Azofeifa & T. Garvin. 2009. Deforestation and forest restoration in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Putting conservation policies in context. Forest Ecology & Management. 258, 931-940. [doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.035]

  • Evans, J. & T. Garvin. 2009. “You’re in Oil Country” Moral tales of citizen action against petroleum development in Alberta, Canada. Ethics, Place & Environment. 12:1, 49-68. [doi: 10.1080/13668790902753070]

  • Garvin, T, T. McGee, K. Smoyer-Tomic, & E. Aubynn. 2009. Community-Company Relations in Gold Mining in Ghana. Journal of Environmental Management 90, 571-586. [doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.12.014]

  • Masuda, J. , & T. Garvin. 2008. Whose Heartland? The politics of place at the rural-urban interface. Journal of Rural Studies 24 pp 118-123. Contribution: [doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2007.08.003]

  • Castleden, H., T. Garvin & Huu-ay-aht First Nation. 2008. Modifying Photovoice for Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research. Social Science & Medicine. 66:6 pp 1393-1405. [doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.030]

  • Masuda, J. , T. McGee & T. Garvin. 2008. Power, knowledge, and public engagement: Constructing ‘citizenship’ in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 10:4 pp 359-380. [doi: 10.1080/15239080802332026]

  • Anaya, F. C ., E. Arias, R. Barbosa, A. Castillo Alvarez, A. P. Botey, T. Garvin , B. McLennan, F. Monge Romero, G. Obelmejias, F. Rodríguez Barrientos and E. L. Zent. 2008. Social Sciences. In: Manual of Methods: Human, Ecological and Biophysical Dimensions of Tropical Dry Forests. (J. M. Nassar, J. P. Rodríguez, A. Sánchez-Azofeifa, T. Garvin and M. Quesada, Eds.). Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela. pp. 81-95

    Masuda, J., & T. Garvin. 2006. Place, culture, and the social amplification of risk. Risk Analysis. 26: 2. pp 437-454. [doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00749.x]

  • Sánchez-Azofeifa, G.A., M. Quesada, J.P. Rodríguez, J.M.. Nassar, K.E. Stoner, A. Castillo, T. Garvin, E.L. Zent, J. Calvo-Alvarado, M. Kalacska, L. Fajardo, J. Gamon and P. Cuevas-Reyes. 2005. Research priorities for Neotropical dry forests. Biotropica. 37:4 pp 477-485. [doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00066.x]

  • Williams, A. & T. Garvin. 2004. Taking stock: Geographical perspectives on women and health in Canada. The Canadian Geographer 48:1 pp 29-34. [doi: 10.1111/j.1085-9489.2004.003b16.x]

  • Castleden, H & T. Garvin. 2004. Therapeutic landscape as sacred land: Wolf in sheep’s clothing? In Borders and Boundaries. (J. Oakes, R. Riewe, Y. Belanger, S. Blady, K. Legge & P. Wiebe, Eds.).

  • Garvin, T. & R. G. Lee. 2003. Reflections on the ‘Policy Relevant Turn’ in social justice research. Social Justice 30:4 pp 40-53.

  • Lee, R.G. & T. Garvin. 2003. Moving from information transfer to information exchange in health and health care. Social Science & Medicine 56. pp. 449-464.

  • Garvin, T. & J. Eyles. 2001. Public Health Responses for Skin Cancer Prevention: The Policy Framing of Sun Safety in Australia, Canada and England. Social Science & Medicine 53. pp. 1175-1189.

  • Garvin, T. 2001. Analytical Paradigms: The Epistemological Distances between Scientists, Policymakers and the Public. Risk Analysis. 21:3. pp 443-455.

  • Garvin, T. & K. Wilson. 1999. The Use of Storytelling for Understanding Women’s Desires to Tan: Lessons from the ‘Field.” The Professional Geographer. 51:2. pp. 296-306.

  • Garvin, T. & J. Eyles. 1997. The Sun Safety Metanarrative: Translating Science into Public Health Discourse. Policy Sciences. 30. pp. 47-70.

  • Garvin, T. 1995. “We’re Strong Women” Building a Community-University Research Partnership. Geoforum. 26:3pp. 273-286.