Our researchers are building cross-sector and societal partnerships for viable policies and strategies to help with land use planning, food security, Ocean governance and more.
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Advancing three Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
James Nugent
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Urban political ecology
- Social movements
- Labour geography & unions
- Economic restructuring
- Community benefits agreements
- Participatory, community-based research
- Community-engaged learning
Kelsey Leonard
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
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Indigenous water rights
- Climate change
- Interjurisdictional water governance
- Ocean planning
Jeremy Pittman
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Environmental policy and governance in the Anthropocene
- Landscape- and seascape-scale approaches to planning
- Human communities in an interconnected world
- Social-ecological connectivity
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
Michael Wood
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Business sustainability
- Water
- Scale
- Global security
- Social license to operate
- Pedagogy of sustainability management
Amelia Clarke
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Corporate social and environmental responsibility
- Campus environmental management
- Cross-sector partnerships
- Collaborative strategic management
- Strategy implementation for low-carbon and sustainable cities
- Implementing the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Youth and innovation
Andrea Collins
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Global land and agricultural governance
- Gender, development, and global political economy
- Gender and environmental politics
- Transnational agricultural investment
- Public-private partnerships in agriculture and nutrition
Jennifer Clapp
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Global Food Politics Group
- Waterloo Food Issues Group
- Global political economy of food
- Food security and sustainability – policy and governance
- International trade in food and agriculture
- Corporate concentration in the global food system
- The intersection of food and financial markets
Neil Craik
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
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Public and regulatory law, international environmental law, domestic and comparative environmental law, natural resources law and municipal and planning law
- Bi-lateral and tri-lateral environmental governance structures in North America
- Impact of federalism on transnational regulatory activities and the regulatory role of private transboundary environmental litigation
Bob Gibson
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
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Applied sustainability
- Environmental and sustainability assessment law and policy
- Climate change mitigation in assessments
- Indigenous communities and authorities in extractive industry planning and assessment
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
Graham Epstein
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Environmental governance
- Collective action
- Landscape ecology of institutions
- Human dimensions of conservation
Rosella Caré
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Climate-related financial risks
- Sustainable investing
- Impact investing
- Corporate social and environmental responsibility in the financial sector
- Cross-sector partnerships and Impact bonds
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Katherine Perrott
- Political economy of the built environment
- Planning policy and development processes
- Urban and suburban design
Tingting Wu
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Environmental economics
- Sustainable finance
- Corporate social responsibility and environmental social governance
Jessie Ma
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Power systems economics
- Electricity markets
- Demand response
- Distributed energy resources
- Renewable energy
- Energy storage
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
Zachary Folger-Laronde
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Sustainability accounting and disclosure
- Accounting for sustainability
- Sustainable finance
- Sustainable banking
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