Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications since 2014

(Names of trainees under Prof. Riva's supervision are underlined.)

  1. Bertheussen, M., Riva, M., Coupland, K., Debanné, L., Pokiak, D. L., & Whalen, D. (2026). Climate change and relational landscapes in the Arctic: intergenerational perspectives from Tuktoyaktuk, Canada. Environmental Research: Health, 4(4), 045003. Climate change and relational landscapes in the Arctic: intergenerational perspectives from Tuktoyaktuk, Canada - IOPscience
  2. Debanné, L., Brais, H., Benford, A., & Riva, M. (2026). ‘You’re going to either lose your place, or you’re gonna have all of your power cut’: examining the intersections of energy precarity and homelessness in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. International Journal of Housing Policy, 1-22. https://doi-org.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/10.1080/19491247.2026.2737422
  3. Debanné, L., Riva, M., & Das, R. (2026). Beyond four walls and a roof: Developing a holistic housing framework to explore energy precarity based on the lived experience of households in a small Canadian town. Energy Research & Social Science, 138, 104820. https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/science/article/pii/S2214629626002914
  4. Kutuka, S., Riva, M., Debanné, L., Breau, S., Adam, C., & Das, R. R. (2026). La précarité énergétique au Québec: une problématique à reconnaître pour une transition juste et équitable. Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 49(2), 38-48. https://doi.org/10.7202/1126428ar
  5. Debanné, L., Riva, M., Bertheussen, M., MacDonald, G., Das, R., & Kutuka, S. (2024). Measuring the use of energy poverty coping strategies and the heat-or-eat trade-off in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Canadian Geographies / Géographies Canadiennes, 69(1), e12967. Https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12967
  6. Riva, M., Debanné, L., Kutuka, S., Bertheussen, M., O'Sullivan, K. C., & Das, R. R. (2024). Energy poverty and well-being at the local level: Insights from a community-wide survey in Atlantic Canada. Energy Research & Social Science, 117, 103709.
  7. Bertheussen, M., Riva, M., Jock, B. W. I., Fletcher, C., Ayotte, P., Muckle, G., Poliakova, N., & Bélanger, R. (2024). Using latent class analysis to operationalize a wholistic assessment of Inuit health and well-being. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 83(1), 2322186.
  8. Malenfant, J., & Brais, H. (2023). An Anarchist Approach to Addressing Housing Precarity: Implementing Anarchist Strategies to Program Efforts for Housing Justice. Housing, Theory and Society, DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2282654.
  9. Riva, M., Kingunza Makasi, S., O’Sullivan, K. C., Das, R. R., Dufresne, P., Kaiser, D., & Breau, S. (2023). Energy poverty: an overlooked determinant of health and climate resilience in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1-10.
  10. Brais, H., & Maurer, K. (2022). Inside the Open Door: Considerations of Inclusivity Among Women Accessing an Open Door Housing Service in Canada. International Journal on Homelessness, 1-15.
  11. Riva, M., Makasi, S. K., Dufresne, P., O'Sullivan, K., & Toth, M. (2021). Energy poverty in Canada: Prevalence, social and spatial distribution, and implications for research and policy. Energy Research & Social Science, 81, 102237.
  12. Myette, E., & Riva, M. (2021). Surveying the complex social-ecological pathways between resource extraction and Indigenous Peoples’ health in Canada: A scoping review with a realist perspective. The Extractive Industries and Society, 100901.
  13. Baron, M., Riva, M., Fletcher, C., Lynch, M., Lyonnais, M. C., & Sidi, E. A. L. (2021). Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project. Social Indicators Research, 1-26.
  14. Mah, S.M., Sanmartin, C., Riva, M., Dasgupta, K., & Ross, N.A. (2020). Active living environments, physical activity and premature cardiometabolic mortality in Canada: a nationwide cohort study. BMJ Open, 10(11).
  15. Schiff, R., Buccieri, K., Schiff, J. W., Kauppi, C., & Riva, M. (2020). COVID-19 and pandemic planning in the context of rural and remote homelessness. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1-4.
  16. Adamou, T. Y., Riva, M., Muckle, G., Sidi, E. A. L., Lemire, M., & Ayotte, P. (2020). Blood mercury and plasma polychlorinated biphenyls concentrations in pregnant Inuit women from Nunavik: Temporal trends, 1992–2017. Science of The Total Environment, 140495.
  17. Hansen, C. B., Larsen, C. V., Bjerregaard, P., & Riva, M. (2020). The effect of household crowding and composition on health in an Inuit cohort in Greenland. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 1403494820929496.
  18. Baron, M., Fletcher, C., & Riva, M. (2020). Aging, Health and Place from the Perspective of Elders in an Inuit Community. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1-21.
  19. Riva, M., Perreault, K., Dufresne, P., Fletcher, C., Muckle, G., Potvin, L., Bailie, R., & Baron, M. (2020). Social housing construction and improvements in housing outcomes for Inuit in Northern Canada. Housing Studies, 1-21.
  20. Perreault, K., Riva, M., Dufresne, P., & Fletcher, C. (2020). Overcrowding and sense of home in the Canadian Arctic. Housing Studies, 35(2), 353-375.
  21. Riva, M., Fletcher, C., Dufresne, P., Perreault, K., Muckle, G., Potvin, L., & Bailie, R. S. (2020). Relocating to a new or pre-existing social housing unit: significant health improvements for Inuit adults in Nunavik and Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 111(1), 21-30.
  22. Maurice, A., Lavoie, M., Hamel, D., & Riva, M. (2020). Recherche quantitative originale - Adoption d’un règlement municipal pour obliger les moins de 18 ans à porter un casque à vélo: effet sur la pratique du vélo et le port du casque. Promotion de la santé et prévention des maladies chroniques au Canada.