Climate, Sustainability and the Environment

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

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

Sustainable energy and climate policy; emerging economies / developing countries; low carbon technology cooperation; innovation, science and technology policies

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James Meadowcroft

Low-carbon transition; environmental policy; sustainable development; energy policy; climate change; comparative environmental politics and policy

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Lisa Mills

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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Stephan Schott

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

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Recent Publications

Monday, November 13, 2023

Graeme Auld: Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility

In a new paper, SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and co-authors consider how fostering intellectual humility in conservation decision-making processes might reveal new ways of handling... More

Monday, November 13, 2023

SPPA’s Alexandra Mallett featured on CBC’s Spark discussing Electricity Grids and Public Policy

SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett was featured on the Nov 10, 2023 episode of Spark with Nora Young "20th Century tech still... More

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Community Perspectives on Inuit Country Food Insecurity in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we will be sharing Research Summaries highlighting some of SPPA's broad-ranging research.  Below is this month's... More

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Graeme Auld: published new term “Path Dependence” in Dictionary of Ecological Economics

SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and his colleague Professor Stefan Renckens (University of Toronto) published an entry in the Dictionary of... More

Monday, July 10, 2023

Alex Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail

SPPA faculty member Alexandra Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail about government approach aimed at growing the clean energy economy in the ‘Big Idea’ section of the June 2023 the Report on Business magazine, titled... More

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna

SPPA Post Doctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld along with co-authors Megan Bailey, Hekia Bodwitch and Hussain Sinan... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Lisa Mills: Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia

SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Alexandra Mallett: Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case

Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett's paper Public participation in... More

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

FIGHTING AN INVASION – Scientists and policy experts work to stop spread of invasive species

By Dan Rubinstein         In the early 1990s the mountain pine beetle outbreak began in British Columbia, wiping out... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

NET-ZERO NOW: Researcher helps accelerate decarbonization in Canada

By Dan Rubinstein To ward off the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. That means in less than three decades the amount... More

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

SPPA Adjunct Research Prof and PhD Alum Brendan Haley Talks to CBC about Reducing Household Emissions

Agents of change A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their... More

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Patricia Hardie: Op-Ed in Toronto Star on Nature-Based Solutions and the Climate Crisis

Pretending ‘nature-based solutions’ will solve the climate crisis is perverse and delusional We cannot hide behind language that tells... More

Thursday, January 5, 2023

SPPA Postdoc Laurenne Schiller and Prof. Graeme Auld Publish in One Earth

SPPA Postdoctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld have published a paper, "Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations," in One... More

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