Cameron Fioret
EPAF Research Fellow
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (University of Guelph) |
| Email: | CameronFioret@cunet.carleton.ca |
Biography
Cameron is currently a Policy Analyst at Natural Resources Canada. Previously, he was a Virtual Visiting Research Fellow at United Nations University-CRIS, a Policy Analyst in the Canada Water Agency at ECCC, and a Visiting Scholar in the University of Michigan’s Water Center in the Graham Sustainability Institute. He completed his SSHRC CGS-Doctoral funded PhD at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Dr. Monique Deveaux, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change. His dissertation, The Ethics of Water: From Commodification to Common Ownership, was published as a book by Bloomsbury in 2023.
Research Interests
Cameron’s research interests revolve around issues of ownership and property, commodification, and distributive justice concerning natural resources. Should naturally occurring necessities for life, like water, be considered common property and commonly owned? Is it impermissible to commodify water? What is the most efficient, yet just, form of ownership of natural necessities? Such questions are central to his research.