Lance Robinson is an environmental social scientist whose work focuses on human dimensions of natural resource management. He often uses participatory and collaborative approaches to bring together communities, research, and policy. He is particularly interested in landscape approaches, Indigenous and public participation, and community-based approaches to resource management, monitoring and land governance, and has worked on these kinds of issues in various countries in the global South as well as at home in Canada. His work in DIVERSE explores how policy and governance frameworks for forests enable or constrain long term thinking and the prioritization of resilience.