From environmental policies to understanding the complex social dynamics of society, our researchers are looking at how to foster these gaps through collaboration and research methods.
Get to know their areas of expertise.
Advancing two Sustainable Development Goals
Our researchers
Marta Berbes
- Environmental justice
- Sustainable urban futures
- Resilience thinking and complexity
- Participatory action research and community-led research
- Human dimensions of environmental change
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
Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Balsillie School of International Affairs
- Complex threats to global security
- The structure and change of ideologies
- Causes and resolution of violent conflict
- Climate change, energy security, and public policy
- Growth and decline of social systems
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
Daniel McCarthy
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- The utility of complex systems-based approaches to understanding and intervening in linked social, ecological, epistemological systems
- Partnerships that relate to fostering adaptive capacity
- Social and environmental justice and social innovation in the field of environmental policy
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning
John McLevey
Department of Knowledge Integration
- Social network analysis
- Science and public policy
- Sociology of education
- Environmental sociology
- Computational social science
- Information science
- Research methods
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and Geography and Environmental Management
Katie Plaisance
Department of Knowledge Integration
- Collaboration & teamwork
- Multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research
- Interdisciplinary expertise
- The role of diversity in knowledge production
Stephen Quilley
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Historical sociology of urban regeneration
- The long term dynamics of human ecology
- Policy-related projects relating to sustainability, urban regeneration, food systems, resilience and social-ecological innovation