EV1-332, ext. 47012
sdscott@uwaterloo.ca
For more information, visit Steffanie Scott's personal website.
Key Areas of Graduate Supervision
- Re-storying our connection to the land, nature connection, pedagogies about learning from the land, knowledge systems
- Contemplative practices (such as learning circles)
- Food sovereignty, food system sustainability & localization, organic/ecological/regenerative agriculture, permaculture, ethnobotany
- Decolonization
Recent Courses Taught
GEOG 361: Food Systems and Sustainability
GEOG 426: Geographies of Development (Re-storying the land)
GEOG 460 Sustainable Food Systems: Regional Case Study
GEOG 700/800 Professional Skills in Geography
Research Interests and Community Engagement
- ways of knowing and being to reconnect with the web of life, each other, and ourselves
- nature connection, relational education, learning from the land / place-based learning
- contemplative and embodied practices (e.g., learning circles)
- community food systems, agroecology, regenerative agriculture
I am leading a research project on "Learning from the Land: Developing Capacity for Place-Based Learning at the University of Waterloo." I co-led the Land Skills for Wellness and Sustainability project.
My past research focused on alternative food networks, Ecological Agriculture in China and China's Changing Food System, sustainable food systems, farmer livelihoods, and rural development.
I served as co-Chair of the Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable and am past president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies.
Selected Publications
- Ning Dai, Zhenzhong Si, and S. Scott. 2022. “Cultivating sustainable diets in China: Challenges and opportunities.” In Kathleen Kevany and Paolo Prosperi (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets. London: Routledge.
- Alesandros Glaros, Geoff Luehr, Zhenzhong Si, Steffanie Scott. 2022. “Ecological Civilization in Practice: A case study of urban agriculture in four Chinese cities.” Land.
- Zhenzhong Si and S. Scott. 2021. “Employing an Agroecological Approach to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study from China.” In CD Caldwell and Songliang Wang (eds.), Introduction to Agroecology. New York: Springer.
- Geoff Luehr*, Alesandros Glaros*, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott. 2020. “Urban agriculture in Chinese cities: Practices, motivations and challenges.” In Alec Thornton (ed.), Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Taiyang Zhong, Zhenzhong Si, Steffanie Scott, Jonathan Crush *, Kui Yang, Xianjin Huang. 2021. “Comprehensive Food System Planning for Urban Food Security in Nanjing, China.” Land.
- Z. Si, T. Schumilas, W. Chen, T. Fuller, and S. Scott. 2020. “What Makes a CSA a CSA?”. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur L’alimentation, 7(1): 64-87.
- Charles Z. Levkoe, Irena Knezevic, Donna Appavoo, Andrea Moraes, S. Scott. 2020. “Serving Up Food Studies Online: Teaching About “Food from Somewhere” from Nowhere.” Food, Culture & Society. [10%] - Most-downloaded article of the year for the journal & winner of the Best Paper award for 2020.
- S. Scott, Zhenzhong Si, Theresa Schumilas, and Aijuan Chen. 2018. Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom Up Ecological Initiatives. Routledge.