Recent funded research

Genome Canada ($ 5.6 million): “Towards a Sustainable Fishery for Nunavummiut”

Virginia K. Walker (PI), Queen’s University; Stephen C. Lougheed, Queen’s University;Peter Van Coeverden de Groot, Queen’s University; Stephan Schott (co-lead), Carleton University.

Arctic Net ($296,595): “Mining Economies, Mining Families: Extractive Industries and Human Development in the Eastern Subarctic”, April 2015-2018, principal investigator with Thierry Rodon and Ben Bradshaw.

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC($ 81,249)): “Report on the State of Domestic Energy Provision in the Arctic”, 2014-1015, co-principal investigator with Alexandra Mallett.

Select recent publications

Buckley, S. Mestelman, R.A Muller, M.Rogers, S. Schott and J. Zhang (2015). “Appropriation from a common pool resource: effects of the characteristics of the common pool resource, the appropriators and the existence of communication”, chapter in Global Society and the Environment, World Scientific Publisher, forthcoming.

A.Pappin, M. Mesbah, A. Hakani and S. Schott (2015). “Diminishing Returns or Compounding Benefits of Air Pollution Control? The Case of NOx and Ozone” Environmental Science & Technology (July 2015), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00950.

Morteza Mesbah, Amir Hakami, and Stephan Schott (2015). “Optimal Ozone Control with Inclusion of Spatiotemporal Marginal Damages and Electricity Demand”, Environmental Science and Technology (June 2015), DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01178.

Retallack and S. Schott (2014). “Cultural Values and Ecosystem Management at the Subwatershed Level”, Environmental Policy and Governance24, 351-363.

Sedoff, S. Schott and B. Karney (2014). “Sustainable power and scenic beauty: The Niagara River Water Diversion Treaty and its relevance today”, Energy Policy, 66 (2014) 526–536.

Stephan Schott and Graham Campbell (2013). “National Energy Strategies of Major Industrialized Countries”, International Handbook of Energy Security, edited by Hugh Dyer and Julia Trombetta, Edward Elgar: 174-205.

S. Morteza Mesbah, Amir Hakami, and Stephan Schott (2013). “Optimal Ozone Reduction Policy Design Using Adjoint-Based NOx Marginal Damage Information”, Environmental  Science and Technology, 47 (23), pp 13528–13535.

Schott (2013). “Carbon Pricing Options for Canada”, Canadian Public Policy, Volume 39, S109-S124.

Rodon and S.Schott (2013). “Towards a Sustainable Future for Nunavik”, Polar Record, 1-17, March 2013.

R. Ozkan and S. Schott (2013). “Sustainable Development and Capabilities for the Polar Region”, Social Indicators Research, Vol. 114:1259-1283.

Mesbah, S. M., Hakami, A., Schott, S., (2012). “Improving NOx cap-and-trade system with adjoint based emission exchange rate”, Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 46, 11905–11912, 2012.

Recent teaching

Dr. Schott teaches graduate courses in natural resource management (PADM 5614), environmental and ecological economics (PADM 5618), social benefit cost analysis, energy economics (PADM 5510) and economic theory (PADM 6111).

Recent supervisions (PhD)

Anteneh Belayneh (Public Policy), supervisor, in progress.

Elen Lemaitre-Curri (Public Policy), supervisor, in progress.

Matthew Retallack (Public Policy), co-supervisor (with Graeme Auld), in progress.

Mohammad Zebian (Public Policy), supervisor, in progress.

Morteza Mesbah (Civil & Environmental Engineering), joint supervision with Amir Hakami, successfully defended thesis in March 2014. “Application of Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Performance Enhancement of Power Plants’ Nitrogen Oxides Control Policies.”

Recent editorships

Sustainability Science, Editorial Board, April 2015-2018

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics Editorial Board, July 2012-June 2015