April: Dean André Roy's thoughts on food choices and sustainability.
Researchers
Professors' research interest
- Department of Environment and Resource Studies
- Department of Geography and Environmental Management (includes Geomatics)
- School of Planning
- School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Centre for Knowledge Integration
| Researcher | Area of Focus |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Clapp (CIGI Chair in International Governance, also Env't and Business) | Global environmental politics; environment and development; trade and environment/agriculture; agricultural biotechnology and implications for developing countries; transnational corporations and environment. |
| Rob de Loë (University Research Chair in Water Policy and Governance |
Water governance and water policy: water security, water allocation, drinking water source protection, and adaptation to climate change. |
| Robert B. Gibson | Environmental assessment, planning and development; environmental politics; history of attitudes to nature; public participation and democratic theory; environmental journalism; sustainability ethics. Assessment and Planning Project |
| Paul Kay | Climate and society: patterns of variability; assessment of impact, especially water resources; implications of living with climatic uncertainty. |
| Brendon Larson | Metaphor, environmental science and society; social dimensions of invasion biology |
| Jennifer Lynes | Corporate greening; green and social entrepreneurship; energy efficiency/green buildings; sustainable transportation; waste minimization |
| Mary Louise McAllister | Natural resources and environmental policy; mining policy; sustainable communities; environmental decision-making. Brazilian Canadian Relations. |
| Stephen Murphy | Ecological restoration and rehabilitation; Invasive species ecology and management; Conservation and environmental management; agroecology; Environmental education. |
| Maren Oelbermann | Agroforestry and soil ecosystems, especially in tropical regions. |
| James Robinson | Water demand management; integrated water and wastewater system management; water pricing; eco-community development; solid waste management and transportation issues; environmental and world development education |
| Ian Rowlands(also Environment and Business) | International environmental politics and political economy; global climate change; energy (especially electricity) planning; residential energy efficiency; business and the environment; energy and climate change in Southern Africa. |
| Leonard Tsuji | Environment and health; environmental ecology; First Nations and the environment; the ecosystem (holistic) approach to environmental issues; environmental education. |
| Susan Wismer | Community-based sustainable development; environment & health, impact assessment. |
| Sarah Wolfe | Role of social factors in water resource management. Exploring ideas about social capital, decision-making and organization processes; private sector initiatives related to water efficiency and sustainability. |
| Jean Andrey | Transportation geography; road safety; risk assessment; global change. |
| Alexander Brenning | Geostatistics and spatial classification; digital terrain analysis and visualization; statistical modeling in geomorphology and geocryology, especially rock glaciers and landslide susceptibility. |
| Judith Cukier | Tourism employment and entrepreneurship, gender and development, tourism and community development, marine parks, Southeast Asia, Caribbean. |
| Peter Deadman | Geographic information systems; natural resources management; common pool resources; computer modelling and simulation; artificial intelligence; recreation management; landscape architecture. |
| Brent Doberstein | Resource and environmental management, with emphasis on developing countries; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; capacity building; waste management; and natural hazards. |
| Douglas J. Dudycha | Geographic information systems; applications of GIS in developing countries. |
| Claude Duguay | Remote sensing in northern hydrology, numerical modelling of ice growth and the thermal regime of lakes and reservoirs, and the study of climate-lake interactions, with specific interests in northern Canada (Quebec, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory) and Alaska. |
| Chris Fletcher | Using numerical models to investigate large-scale climate processes and climate change. |
| Richard Kelly | Remote Sensing of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments, using ground, aircraft and satellite earth observation data |
| Ellsworth F. LeDrew | Arctic dynamic meteorology and atmospheric synoptic studies; remote sensing of sea ice and snow cover; micrometeorology; remote sensing of corals and impact of climate change and variability on coastal ecosystems. |
| Jonathan Li | 3D city modeling, feature extraction from image and LiDAR data, impervious surface mapping, digital terrain modeling and analysis, environmental visualization, multi-sensor data fusion, spatial sensor web, Internet GIS for risk and disaster management, informal settlement management in Southern Africa. |
| Merrin Macrae | Biogeochemical cycling in natural and impacted systems (agriculture, wetlands, forest) under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use change. |
| Geoffrey McBoyle | Climatology, global warming; climate and the skiing industry; geographic thought and methodology; distillery tourism. |
| Clare Mitchell | Population growth, counterurbanization and heritage tourism within Canada's non-metropolitan settlements. |
| Bruce Mitchell | Integrated resource and environmental management; water planning and management; decision making and institutional arrangements; policy and program evaluation; community-based approaches to environmental management. |
| Sanjay Nepal | Exploring the links between biodiversity conservation and tourism, particularly in areas of resolving conflicts between wildlife agencies and local communities, tourism impacts on the environment (in parks and protected areas, and remote communities), community participation, and local level development through tourism. Current research focus is in Nepal, Thailand and Western Canada. |
| Paul Parker | Energy efficiency, renewable energy policy; Japan and the Pacific; local economic development; ecological footprint assessment. |
| Jonathan Price | Surface water and groundwater relations in wetlands; peatland restoration; forest hydrology. |
| Daniel Scott (Canada Research Chair in Global Change and Tourism) |
Climate change impacts and adaptation, in particular the effects of climate change on tourism and recreation; protected areas and biodiversity conservation. |
| Steffanie Scott |
Agro-food system sustainability, small-scale producers, local food systems, organic and ecological food production, environment-development interfaces, East Asia and Canada |
| Micheal Stone | Environmental planning, water quality, sediment/water interactions; water resources management. |
| Tara Vinodrai (also in Environment and Business) | Economic geography; urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change |
| Geoffrey Wall | Tourism; recreation; socio-economic implications of climate change; Asia, especially China. |
| Jeff Casello (jointly appointed to Planning and Civil Engineering)  website |
Urban transportation systems; public transport system planning, design and operation; multimodal transportation modeling; transportation and land use impacts; urban spatial analysis; GIS applications. |
| Michael Drescherwebsite |
Nature and applications of scientific and non-scientific knowledge in natural resource management and planning, Socio-economic dynamics as drivers of cascading ecological effects across trophic levels in coupled human-natural systems, Composition, structure and dynamics of forests and grasslands with special interest in disturbance dynamics, succession, alternate stable states, and cross-scale spatial pattern, Behaviour and population dynamics of large herbivores in forests and grasslands |
| Robert Feick (jointly appointed to Planning and Geography) website |
Geographic information systems; multi-criteria analysis methods for land use planning; spatial decision support systems; public facility systems; development and resource management issues in small island states. |
| Pierre Filionwebsite |
Downtown and inner city planning, metropolitan region planning, socioeconomic change, land use-transportation interaction. |
| Murray E. Haightwebsite |
Ecology; environmental planning; emphasis in waste management planning; municipal and industrial waste management; international focus in southeast Asia. |
| Laura Johnsonwebsite |
Social planning; integration of social supports into housing environments; telecommuting and home-based work; women, work and family; supportive housing; survey research and qualitative research methods. |
| Louna (Luna) Khirfanwebsite |
Urban design and place making, international development and comparative planning, participatory planning, historic preservation and cultural resource management, and museum studies. |
| Jane Law • website |
Environment and health; diet and health; determinants of health, crime, and education outcomes; applications of GIS with advanced spatial statistical analysis; neighbourhood/ community studies; spatial statistical modelling and analysis; probability mapping; measurement error, data uncertainty, and missing data adjustment; multilevel modelling; spatial-temporal analysis; spatial cluster analysis; land information systems; automated mapping/facilities management; spatial data capture, conversion, integration, and management |
| Geoff Lewis | Environment, policy and sustainable energy, including siting and integration of renewable energy systems (across scales from small distributed systems to large utility installations), energy use in buildings (including the effects of behavior and landscape on energy use), green building, and the use of life-cycle assessment in decision-making. |
| John Lewiswebsite |
Spatial and regional analysis; strategic planning and policy development; emergency planning and management; decision support systems; natural resources inventories, classification and management systems; computing applications in Planning and the Faculty of Environment (modelling, statistics, graphics, simulation). |
| Markus Mooswebsite |
Urban housing markets, residential location and commute patterns, the economy and social structure of Canadian cities, urban governance and planning, labour market restructuring, sustainability policy and social justice in cities |
| Dawn Parker website |
Development of integrated socio-economic and biophysical models of land-use change, agent-based modeling, complexity theory, geographic information systems, environmental and resource economics |
| Mark Seasonswebsite |
Urban and regional planning; mid-size cities; monitoring, evaluation and indicators; local economic development; public administration; federal land use planning, strategic planning. |
| Robert Shipleywebsite |
Strategic planning and the use of visioning, decision making processes and tribunals, heritage preservation, symbolism in community design and tourism development. |
| Roger Sufflingwebsite |
Natural resource planning and management, protected areas planning, landscape ecology of boreal forests and of urban areas, fire ecology, global warming, ecological restoration, community and economic development in small northern communities, environmental assessment. |
| Clarence Woudsmawebsite |
Freight transportation and logistics - policy and practice, urban transportation policy issues, climate change and transportation, regulation/deregulation of transportation provision, urban freight planning and city logistics, transportation demand management, integrated spatial methods (GIS/RS/ESDA) |
| Sustainable development strategies; corporate environmental management; campus environmental management; collaborative strategic management; cross-sector partnerships; regional sustainable development; local agenda 21s and youth-led environmental initiatives. | |
| Neil Craik | Public and regulatory law, with a focus on international environmental law, domestic and comparative environmental law, natural resources law and municipal and planning law. Current research examines bi-lateral and tri-lateral environmental governance structures in North America, with a particular focus on the impact of federalism on transnational regulatory activities and the regulatory role of private transboundary environmental litigation. |
| Goretty Dias | Greenhouse gas emissions and other air contaminants from agriculture and natural systems; life cycle assessment (LCA) and social and environmental issues in supply chains; the use of LCA and other sustainability assessment tools to analyze various systems: sustainable food and biofuel/bioenergy production, food security, and renewable energy; going beyond carbon and including Ecological (Environmental) Goods and Services and Social LCA in assessing conventional/organic agriculture/food systems and renewable energies; environmental footprinting of diets (e.g. North American, European, vegan, etc.) and foodshed analysis; social and economic opportunities for local food processing and value-added products |
| Blair Feltmate | Key research interests reside in identifying the additive value of sustainable development on an industry-specific basis, communicating the additive value of sustainable development to the capital markets (primarily financial analysts, retail and institutional fund managers, and institutional money management consultants), and identifying emerging drivers for corporate sustainable development. |
| Bruce Frayne | Sustainable cities, and encompass the three related areas of human migration, urbanization and food security, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Carin Holroyd | Government-business relations, Canada-Japan relations, international trade and national innovation policies. |
| Tad Homer-Dixon | |
| Geoff Lewis | Environment, policy and sustainable energy, including siting and integration of renewable energy systems (across scales from small distributed systems to large utility installations), energy use in buildings (including the effects of behavior and landscape on energy use), green building, and the use of life-cycle assessment in decision-making. |
| Haiying Lin | Corporate sustainability and public policy; strategic alliances for sustainability, corporate environmental management and strategy, voluntary environmental programs, stakeholder involvement in environmental governance, global corporate sustainability, climate change policy & technology, environmental policy & strategy in developing countries. |
| Jennifer Lynes | Corporate greening; green and social entrepreneurship; energy efficiency/green buildings; sustainable transportation; waste minimization |
| Daniel MaCarthy | Systems thinking, resilience, social innovation and learning, First Nations, environmental assesment, Unesco Biosphere Reserves |
| Steffanie Scott |
International development, food system sustainability, rural livelihoods, land reform, post-socialist restructuring, poverty, participatory development approaches, gender and ethnicity, Southeast Asia and Latin America. |
| Larry Swatuk |
Africa; water management; environmental politics; the south in globalization; natural resources governance |
| Tara Vinodrai | Economic geography; urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change |
| Mark Weber | Co-operation, trust, the social facilitation of leadership, negotiations, the role of values in decision-making, and social and organizational identity processes |
| Olaf Weber | Professor Weber’s research and teaching interests are in the area of environmental and sustainable finance with a focus on sustainable credit risk management, socially responsible investment, social banking and the link between sustainability and financial performance of enterprises. |
| Frances Westley | Social innovation, strategies for sustainable development, strategic change, visionary leadership and inter-organizational collaboration |
| Steven B. Young | Resource efficiency and business sustainability including: life cycle assessment, supply-chain analysis, corporate social responsibility, environmental performance evaluation of products and technologies, technical and policy foundations for greenhouse gas management (e.g. carbon neutrality and carbon credits). |
| Linda Carson | Expertise, especially in drawing, and interdisciplinary education |
| Rob Gorbet | The design of actuators made of shape memory alloys (SMA), for everything from car door locks to subtle next-generation actuation systems for responsive architectural environments. |
| Ed Jernigan | Perception in the broadest sense, in particular vision and image processing, pattern recognition, non-linear and adaptive systems. More generally, systems thinking and design as knowledge integration. |
| Katie Plaisance | Philosophy of the behavioral sciences and the public understanding of science. |
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Permanent Teaching Staff in the Faculty of Environment
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| Karen Hammond (School of Planning) |
Urban Design and Re-development, Landscape Design, Community Design, Visual Resource Planning, View Protection. |
| Ian McKenzie (Dept. of Geography and Environmental Management) mckenzie @ uwaterloo.ca |
Regional field studies; earth science assessment; regional planning and groundwater energy systems; groundwater heat pumps; quaternary; shore zone mapping and classification; zebra mussels. |
Updated June 15, 2011
