Yasmin Koop-Monteiro

University of British Columbia

Based in

Canada
North America

Yasmin Koop-Monteiro’s research primarily focuses on environmental sociology, social movements, and social network analysis. She is particularly interested in human-nature interactions, examining how social, political, and economic institutions impact and are influenced by climate change and biodiversity loss. Her work explores how social movements and communities are mobilizing to address these issues through climate adaptation, mitigation, and environmental justice efforts, including advocacy, lobbying, and local initiatives such as community gardening.

Koop-Monteiro also investigates how humans form social relationships with nature and animals, including concepts of friendship and kinship, and how these relationships are utilized to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss within environmental, animal rights, and rights of nature movements.

Her published works include co-authored mixed methods analyses of climate-related Instagram posts in Environmental Sociology and Environmental Communication, an analysis of the carbon intensity of wellbeing in Canadian provinces in npj Climate Action, a study on community gardens and crime in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, a review of innovations for including animals in sociological research in Current Sociology, a co-authored review of recent developments in social network analysis in the Canadian Review of Sociology, and a co-authored book chapter on scientific software for social network analysis in the Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis (2nd ed.).