
Stephan Schott
- Brief Biography
BA Social Science Honours in Economics (University of Ottawa, Canada)
MA in Economics (University of Guelph, Canada)
PhD in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (University of Guelph, Canada)
Postdoc, Behavioral and Experimental Economics (McMaster University, Canada)Dr. Schott’s research focuses on alternative energy and sustainable development in the Arctic, the economic impacts of mining on local communities and local business development, food security and the integration of traditional knowledge and science, behavioural experiments in common pool resource environments and energy strategies and carbon emission reduction programmes.
I am interested in developing and applying sustainability principles to energy systems, natural resource management and economic development. My belief is that we need to act on a number of urgent issues such as climate change, fish stock declines, food insecurity and declining community well-being. My research closely involves end users such as communities, individual harvesters and local governments to come up with practical bottom up solutions to pressing public policy issues. My research methods combine field work with experimental and empirical methods to provide solutions and advance academic theories in more meaningful directions.
Academic Leadership
Active Initiatives
- Journal Articles
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- Schott, Stephan, and Miranda Alice Schreurs. “Climate and Energy Politics in Canada and Germany: Dealing With Fossil Fuel Legacies.” Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies 14(2): pp. 29-55 (April 2021) Centre for European Studies.
- Virginia K. Walker, Pranab Das, Peiwen Li, Stephen C. Lougheed, Kristy Moniz,Stephan Schott, James Qitsualik and Iris Koch. “Identification of Arctic Food Fish Species for Anthropogenic Contaminant Testing Using Geography and Genetics.” EFoods 9(12): pp. 1824 (December 2020) Switzerland: MDPI
- Cooke, S.J., V.M. Nguyen, J.M. Chapman, A.J. Reid, S.J. Landsman, N. Young, S.G. Hinch, S. Schott, N. Mandrak and C.A.D. Semeniuk. “Knowledge Co‐production: A Pathway to Effective Fisheries Management, Conservation, and Governance.” Fisheries (Bethesda) 46(2): pp. 89-97 (August 2020) American Fisheries Society
- Stephan Schott, James Qitsualik, Simon Okpakok, Peter Van Coeverden de Groot Jacqueline Chapman, Stephen Lougheed, Virginia Walker. “Operationalizing Knowledge Coevolution: Towards a Sustainable Fishery for Nunavummiut.” Arctic Science 6(3): pp. 208–228 (March 2020) Canadian Science Publishing
- Chapman, J. M, and S Schott. “Knowledge Coevolution: Generating New Understanding through Bridging and Strengthening Distinct Knowledge Systems and Empowering Local Knowledge Holders.” Sustainability Science 15(3): pp. 931–943 (May 2020) Springer
- Lysenko, Dmitry, and Stephan Schott. “Food Security and Wildlife Management in Nunavut.” Ecological economics 156: pp. 360–374 (February 2019) Elsevier B.V.
- M. Gramiak and S. Schott “Amplifying Indigenous Voices in National Environmental Governance and the Sustainable Development Strategy”, Graham, Katherine A.H. and Allan M. Maslove. How Ottawa Spends, 2018-2019: Next? How Ottawa Spends. Ottawa, ON: Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, 2018.
- Belayneh, Anteneh, Thierry Rodon, and Stephan Schott. “Mining Economies: Inuit Business Development and Employment in the Eastern Subarctic.” Northern review (Whitehorse) 47(47): pp. 59-78 (September 2018) Northern Review.
- Rodon, Thierry, Isabel Lemus-Lauzon, and Stephan Schott. “Impact and Benefit Agreement (IBA) Revenue Allocation Strategies for Indigenous Community Development.” Northern review (Whitehorse) 47(47): pp. 9–29 (September 2018) Northern Review.
- Buckley, Neil J et al. “The Effects of Communication on the Partnership Solution to the Commons.” Environmental and Resource Economics 70(2): pp. 363–380 (June 2018) Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
- A.Pappin, M. Mesbah, A. Hakani and S. Schott. “Response to Comment on ‘Diminishing Returns or Compounding Benefits of Air Pollution Control? The Case of NOxand Ozone.’” Environmental science & technology 50(1): pp. 502–503 (January 2016)
- A.Pappin, M. Mesbah, A. Hakani and S. Schott. “Diminishing Returns or Compounding Benefits of Air Pollution Control? The Case of NOx and Ozone.” Environmental science & technology 49(16): pp. 9548–9556 (August 2015) United States
- Mesbah, S. Morteza, Amir Hakami, and Stephan Schott. “Optimal Ozone Control with Inclusion of Spatiotemporal Marginal Damages and Electricity Demand.” Environmental science & technology 49(13): pp. 7870–7878 (June 2015) United States: American Chemical Society.
- Retallack, Matthew, and Stephan Schott. “Cultural Values and Ecosystem Management at the Subwatershed Level: Cultural Values and Ecosystem Management.” Environmental policy and governance (2014) Wiley-Blackwell Full Collection – CRKN
- Sedoff, Andrei, Stephan Schott, and Bryan Karney. “Sustainable Power and Scenic Beauty: The Niagara River Water Diversion Treaty and Its Relevance Today.” Energy policy 66: pp. 526–536 (March 2014) Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd.
- Morteza Mesbah, S, Amir Hakami, And Stephan Schott. “Optimal Ozone Reduction Policy Design Using Adjoint-Based NOx Marginal Damage Information.” Environmental science & technology 47(23): pp. 13528–13535 (2013) Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.
- Schott, Stephan. “Carbon Pricing Options for Canada.” Canadian public policy 39(2S) (August 2013) Guelph: University of Toronto Press.
- Rodon, Thierry, and Stephan Schott. “Towards a Sustainable Future for Nunavik.” Polar record 50(3): pp. 260-276 (July 2014) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Ozkan, Umut Riza, and Stephan Schott. “Sustainable Development and Capabilities for the Polar Region.” Social indicators research 114(3): pp. 1259–1283 (December 2013) Dordrecht: Springer
- Morteza Mesbah, S, Amir Hakami, And Stephan Schott. “Improving NOx Cap-and-Trade System with Adjoint-Based Emission Exchange Rates.” Environmental science & technology 46(21): pp. 11905-11912 (2012) Washington, DC: American Chemical Society.
- Heintzelman, Martin D, Stephen W Salant, and Stephan Schott. “Putting Free-Riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to the Common-Property Problem.” Journal of environmental economics and management 57(3): pp. 309–320 (2009) Elsevier Inc.
- Schott, Stephan et al. “Output Sharing in Partnerships as a Common Pool Resource Management Instrument.” Environmental & resource economics 37(4): pp. 697–711 (August 2007) Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Schott, Stephan. “The Optimal Selection and Harvest of Multiple Cohorts.” Marine resource economics 16(2): pp. 109–126 (January 2001) Marine Resource Foundation.
- Book Chapters
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- Stephan Schott, Anteneh Belayneh, Jean-Sébastien Boutet, Thierry Rodon, Jean-Marc Seguin (2020). Mining Economies, Mining Families: The Impacts of Extractive Industries on Economic and Human Development in the Eastern Sub-Arctic, Resource and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, editor Chris Southcott, chapter 17, 19 pages
- M. Gramiak and S. Schott (2018). “Amplifying Indigenous Voices in National Environmental Governance and the Sustainable Development Strategy”, Graham, Katherine A.H. and Allan M. Maslove. How Ottawa Spends, 2018-2019: Next? How Ottawa Spends. Ottawa, ON: Carleton University, School of Public Policy and Administration, 2018.
- U.R. Ozkan, S Schott (2017). Political and fiscal limitations of Inuit self-determination in the Canadian Arctic, In: Northern Sustainabilities: Understanding & Addressing Change in the Circumpolar World, [Ed G Fondahl & G. Wilson], Springer Polar Sciences.
- N Buckley, S Mestelman, RA Muller, M Rogers, S Schott and J. Zhang (2017). Appropriation from a common pool resource: effects of the characteristics of the common pool resource, the appropriators and the existence of communication, Ch 2 in Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change, [Ed.A Botelho], World Scientific Publisher.
- 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.
- Stephan Schott and Coady Wing (2006). “Information Disclosure as an Environmental Policy Instrument and Self-regulatory Tool”, Innovation, Science and Environment: Canadian Policies and Performance 2006-2007, Vol.1, edited by Bruce Doern, McGill/Queen’s Press, pages 213-232.
- P-O. Pineau and Stephan Schott (2005). “Pricing and Technology Options: An Analysis of Ontario Electricity Capacity Requirements and GHG Emissions”, in Energy and the Environment, GERAD, 25th Anniversary Volume, chapter 10, pages 239-260, edited by R. Loulou, J.P. Waubb and G. Zaccour, Springer: New York, 2005.
- Stephan Schott (2004). “New Fishery Management in Atlantic Canada: Communities, Governments and Alternative Targets”, How Ottawa Spends, 25th Anniversary Edition, edited by Bruce Doern, Queens’/McGill Press, 2004, pages 151-172.
- Stephan Schott (2004). “Sustainable and Socially Efficient Electricity Production: How Will Ontario Satisfy the Criteria?”, chapter 7 in Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development, edited by Bruce Doern, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pages 193-224.
Lecture Videos
Media coverage
SPPA News
FISHES: Fostering Indigenous Small‐scale fisheries for Health, Economy, and food Security
The FISHES project will develop and apply genomic approaches in concert with Traditional Ecological Knowledge to address critical challenges and opportunities related to food security and commercial, recreational and subsistence fisheries of northern Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit, Cree and Dené communities). The project will develop genomic resources for six species important to northern communities and use these resources to identify genetically distinct populations, assess their vulnerability to future climatic conditions, quantify their contributions to mixed‐population harvests, and measure the contribution of fish from developing hatchery programs to subsistence harvests. FISHES will support the co‐generation of knowledge to foster the development and co‐management of sustainable fisheries and will also contribute to our ability to forecast the response of key fisheries to rapid global and socio‐economic changes in northern Indigenous communities.
For more info about this project, click here.
Towards a Sustainable Fishery for Nunavummiu (TSFN)
The responsible development of sustainable Northern fisheries is of paramount importance. This is particularly salient for communities where subsistence fisheries provide access to affordable, safe, and culturally relevant food. To profile current harvesting practices and food distribution in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, the community, the Hunter’s and Trappers Association, and Carleton University have collaborated to create an innovative Harvest Study that incorporates social, economic, and biological information by using a multi-dimensional research approach.
For more info about this project, click here.
TRIA-FoR: Transformative Risk Assessment and Forest Resilience Using Genomic Tools for the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak
The current mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic has killed approximately 20 million hectares of mainly lodgepole pine forests in British Columbia and Alberta. Climate change and forest management practices have contributed to unprecedented range expansion of MPB. From its historic range in central British Columbia, MPB has spread through novel habitats in Alberta, establishing in a new host, the jack pine. Jack pine is a boreal forest species with a range that extends to the Atlantic Ocean, raising the spectre of continued eastward spread of MPB. Given the importance of lodgepole and jack pine to the forest industry, their central role in providing ecosystem services and their cultural importance, there is an urgent need to enhance resiliency of forests replacing MPB-killed stands, and to quantify eastward spread risk potential of MPB.
For more info about this project, click here.
Polar Knowledge
Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) is responsible for advancing Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic, strengthening Canadian leadership in polar science and technology, and promoting the development and distribution of knowledge of other circumpolar regions, including Antarctica. The video below was filmed after building on the knowledge and relationships established with TSFN. Seasonal and spatial variations in hunting and fishing in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, are explored in relation to food security and sustainable fishery development.
For more info about this project, click here.
2021
- February 3, 2021
Four FPA Researchers Awarded SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants (FPA News)
2020
- May 8, 2020
Tracking Fish in Canada’s North to Boost Food Security (Carleton Newsroom) - April 6, 2020
Graduate Students Shine at Emerging Perspectives Graduate Conference (FPA News)
2019
- November 20, 2019
FPA contributes to Carleton’s Record Year in Research Funding (FPA Stories)
2018
- October 22, 2018
Energy Road Map: MoCreebec Eeyoud Enlists Carleton Students (Carleton Newsroom) - March 21, 2018
Recharging Northern Energy and Fish Resources (Carleton Newsroom)
2017
- February 3, 2017
Climate Policy Champions (FPA News)
2016
- August 16, 2016
The changing face of economic development in the Canadian North (Open Canada) - December 8, 2016
Keynote address ”Sustainable Development in the Arctic: Major Challenges and Opportunities” (Artic Net)
2015
- July 22, 2015
Genome Canada Funds FPA Research on Nunavut Food Security (FPA News)

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