Our researchers are looking at the human dimensions of climate change.
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Advancing three Sustainable Development goals



Our researchers
Mathieu Feagan
Department of Knowledge Integration
- Capacity-building for social transformation in the Anthropocene
- Urban resilience and sustainability transitions across North-South relations
- Emancipatory pedagogies
- Knowledge integration across different ways of knowing
Carrie Mitchell
- Sustainability Policy Research on Urban Transformations (SPROUT) Lab
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Climate change and cities
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Gendered effects of urban services provision
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Resilience theory and its application in urban planning
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Can supervise graduate students in School of Planning
Markus Moos
- Generationed City
- Generational change and youthification in cities
- Urban housing markets and affordability
- Suburban sustainability innovations
- Social justice and the economies of cities
- Can supervise graduate students in School of Planning and Geography and Environmental Management
Marta Berbes
- Environmental justice
- Sustainable urban futures
- Resilience thinking and complexity
- Participatory action research and community-led research
- Human dimensions of environmental change
Sarah Burch
Geography and Environmental Management
- Sustainability Policy Research on Urban Transformations (SPROUT) Lab
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Governing responses to climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) in urban spaces
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Exploring triggers of transitions toward more sustainable development pathways
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Strategies for engaging a variety of actors in conversations about desirable futures
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Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, and School of Planning
Katherine Perrott
- Political economy of the built environment
- Planning policy and development processes
- Urban and suburban design
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