William Nikolakis

Assistant Professor

Forest Resources Management

Faculty of Forestry

William Nikolakis, PhD, LLB, BBus practices law in British Columbia, and practiced in Australia. His focus is on the intersection between Aboriginal rights and natural resources law.

Since 2000, he has been working with Aboriginal organizations, governments and corporations in Australia and Canada to help achieve their objectives, including gaining greater control over their economies and natural resources, and designing governance mechanisms to support these objectives. William's work has been published in leading peer reviewed journals, including the Journal of Hydrology, International Public Management Journal, Water Policy, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Organization and Environment, Journal of Water and Climate Change, and Community Development.

BPI Publications

A systematic literature review of non-market valuation of Indigenous peoples’ values: Current knowledge, best-practice and framing questions for future research Ecosystem Services, 2022
Assessing the Cumulative Social Effects of Projects: Lessons from Canadian Hydroelectric Development Environmental Management, 2022
Diffusion of indigenous fire management and carbon-credit programs: Opportunities and challenges for “scaling-up” to temperate ecosystems Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Fire Management and Carbon Programs: A Systematic Literature Review and Case Study Analysis Society and Natural Resources, 2022
Implementing “ethical space”: An exploratory study of Indigenous-conservation partnerships Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
INTACT FOREST LANDSCAPES AND THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Lessons for NGO-Business Cooperation The Role of Business in Global Sustainability Transformations, 2022
Law versus justice: the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserve in the Northern Territory, Australia International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2022
Motivations and Trade-Offs for Sustainability in Family Forestry and Tourism Firms: A Cross-National Survey Forests, 2022
Rebuilding Yunesit’in fire (Qwen) stewardship: Learnings from the land Forestry Chronicle, 2022
Reconciliation in the woods? Three pathways towards forest justice Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2022
The right to burn: barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada Facets, 2022
What motivates environmental and social sustainability in family firms? A cross-cultural survey Business Strategy and the Environment, 2022
Wildfire governance in a changing world: Insights for policy learning and policy transfer Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy, 2022
Building voluntary partnerships for climate action: An exploratory study from Iceland Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2021

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