Climate, Sustainability and the Environment - School of Public Policy & Administration

About this Research Theme

Environment and climate change represent some of the most difficult problems facing modern society. This research area covers the design, implementation, regulation and evaluation of policy in climate, sustainability and the environment. Some research topics include energy, governance of natural resources, climate change, environmental politics, and sustainable development.

Faculty

Graeme Auld

Professor -- comparative and global environmental politics and policy; international political economy; transnational private governance and private regulation; corporate social responsibility; climate change; natural resource governance

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Vivian Hoffmann

Associate Professor -- agricultural extension; science, technology and innovation; health

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Alexandra Mallett

Associate Professor -- sustainable energy and climate policy; emerging economies / developing countries; low carbon technology cooperation; innovation, science and technology policies

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James Meadowcroft

Graduate Supervisor, Sustainable Energy -- Low-carbon transition; environmental policy; sustainable development; energy policy; climate change; comparative environmental politics and policy

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Lisa Mills

Associate Professor -- maternal and reproductive health policy in the developing world, particularly Mexico; social policy in Mexico; the political economy of development; theories of development

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Jessica Parish

Assistant Professor -- urban and local governance; gentrification; urban sustainability; environmental justice; housing; social reproduction; financialization; settler colonialism

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Daniel Rosenbloom

Assistant Professor and Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions – governance of socio-technical transitions and net-zero pathways; climate policy and politics; Canadian energy political economy; science, technology, and innovation

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Stephan Schott

Professor -- natural resource management; air quality control policy; northern development; common pool resources; experimental economics; energy policy and strategies

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Recent Publications

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Carleton and Ivey Foundation Create New Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions

Enabled by a generous donation of the Ivey Foundation and Rosamond Ivey, Carleton University is proud to announce the launch of the Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions, which will be held by Professor Daniel Rosenbloom. This is the first chair explicitly dedicated to deepening scholarship and practice surrounding the rapidly... More

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Elisabeth Gilmore: Equitable Climate Adaptation Pathways for the Precariously Housed

Environmental Engineering and Public Policy researcher Elisabeth Gilmore's project Equitable Climate Adaptation Pathways for the Precariously Housed has has been awarded $1.5 million from the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, a stream of the federal government's New Frontiers in Research Fund... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury on climate action

SPPA Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor – MPP in Sustainable Energy and the Environment, Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury about climate action at the municipal level. City of Greater Sudbury declared a climate emergency 5 years ago. It's not on track to meet its goals Northern Ontario city set a goal to reduce... More

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