Archives: Graeme Auld

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Philanthropy and the Sustainable Seafood Movement

For several decades, American private philanthropic foundations have invested extensively in organizations and projects supporting nature conservation and sustainable resource management. In a recently published piece in Conservation Science and Practice, Laurenne Schiller — a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow at SPPA — and co-authors examine the... More

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Governing Artificial Intelligence Through Ethical Standards

Major efforts are afoot to govern the ethics of artificial intelligence. In a recent paper, Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Ashley Casovan, and Benjamin Faveri offer a dynamic look at pathways along which private governance is engaged to shape future AI governance. Taking lessons from other private governance cases for sustainability, the pathways... More

Monday, August 29, 2022

Graeme Auld: FPA Research Excellence Award

Congratulation to SPPA Professor Graeme Auld, recipient of the 2022 FPA Research Excellence Award (Full Professor category). The Faculty of Public Affairs annually recognizes outstanding individuals within its faculty and staff with the presentation of the FPA Excellence Awards. Professor Auld’s work has been recognized for his contributions in... More

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

SPPA Researchers Receive SSHRC Grants

Nine researchers in the Faculty of Public Affairs have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Their projects cover issues of sustainability, health, gender, finance, politics, the military and the law. In addition, two researchers received Partnership Development Grants and four FPA faculty... More

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Spreading the Wealth: Rethinking Charity Regulation in a Time of Need

It was the end of April. Carleton students were winding down from another term, finishing exams and finalizing any outstanding final papers. Well not so for a cohort of 60 students in the Master of Public Policy and Administration. They were just ramping up to take part in a 4-day intensive simulation exercise as... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

SPPA Professors Rank Among Top Researchers in Canada

Two SPPA professors have ranked in the top 40 of political science researchers in Canada out of a pool of more than 3,000 academics assembled by Research.com. The company ranks researchers based on the h-index, publications, and citation values. The data is gathered through Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph. Graeme Auld studies the rise... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Graeme Auld: Bird Friendly Coffee – Le Droit

Votre café protège-t-il les oiseaux? CHARLES FONTAINE Initiative de journalisme local — Le Droit 15 avril 2022 Graeme Auld est professeur à l’école de politique publique et d’administration à l’Université Carleton. Il a rédigé le livre Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries... More

Monday, January 31, 2022

Explaining the Mixed Success of Ecosystem Services in Global Biodiversity Governance

In a newly published article in Global Policy, Professor Graeme Auld teamed up with colleagues to examine the uptake of the ecosystem services as a governance concept informing efforts to conserve global biodiversity. Ecosystem services is an idea that offered a way to think about valuing nature in terms of the “services” provided to... More

Monday, December 20, 2021

2021 Highlights in SPPA

From new research funding to teaching awards to timely events, there are many reasons to celebrate the outstanding efforts of everyone in the Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA) this year. While we faced many challenges, 2021 also presented new opportunities, which were embraced by the faculty, staff and students within FPA. What follows is... More

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Graeme Auld has Article on COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis Published in Policy Sciences

Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore & Kelly Levin Policy Sciences (2021) Abstract COVID-19 has caused 100s of millions of infections and millions of deaths worldwide, overwhelming health and economic capacities in many countries... More

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

SPPA Researchers Establish Lab to Study Decentred Governance in the Digital Era

Processes like seafood sustainability labelling programs or efforts to improve working conditions in the transnational supply chains for apparel and electronics are being devised and driven by non-governmental actors. Digital era tools are interwoven in these efforts. Block chain technologies, for example, are increasingly used for secure... More

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Professors Graeme Auld & James Meadowcroft co-author articles in the journal of Global Environmental Politics

Professors Graeme Auld and James Meadowcroft are part of a co-authoring team that has published a new articles in the journal Global Environmental Politics as part of a project, led by Professor Hayley Stevenson, examining the way the concept of ecosystem services has been taken up by international organizations. You can find the article... More

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