Water and environmental governance

Our researchers are examining the law, economics and politics of water.

Get to know their expertise. 

Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 6

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Our researchers

Kelsey Leonard

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Ocean and water policy

  • Earth law and Indigenous Law
  • Ocean/Coastal/Marine Participatory Mapping
  • Indigenous climate change policy
  • Indigenous data sovereignty 

Rob de Loë

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Water governance and water policy

  • Water security
  • Water allocation, drinking water source protection
  • Adaptation to climate change

Quinn Lewis

Geography and Environmental Management

  • Morphology and evolution of fluvial landscapes
  • Research on process, form, and the transfer of material and energy that links morphology and evolution of fluvial landscapes 
  • Developing new techniques to study lake and reservoir water levels globally with remote sensing

Dustin Garrick

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Water policy, economics and governance
  • Water, agriculture and development policy
  • Property rights, incentives and commons governance
  • Social-ecological transitions

Prateep Nayak

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

Jeremy Pittman

School of Planning

Larry Swatuk

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

Derek Armitage

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Management and governance of aquatic systems (coastal-marine and freshwater)

  • Human dimensions of environmental change
  • Social-ecological systems
  • Resilience

Felicitas Egunyu

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Graham Bryant Epstein

Graham Epstein

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Environmental governance 
  • Collective action
  • Landscape ecology of institutions 
  • Human dimensions of conservation
Leah Jones-Crank

Leah Jones-Crank

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Dan Murray

Dan Murray

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

  • Environmental planning in rural and agricultural settings
  • Policy development and evaluation
  • Research design, methods, and research project management
  • Sport and Sustainability