Professors in the Faculty of Environment are involved in a wide range of research relating to Local Economic Development. This list of the research interests of faculty will assist you to find professors with related areas of research:
| Dan McCarthy | Systems thinking, resilience, social innovation and learning, First Nations, environmental assesment, Unesco Biosphere Reserves |
| Emanuel Carvalho |
Regional and Local Economic Development |
| Amelia Clarke | Sustainable development strategies; corporate environmental management; campus environmental management; collaborative strategic management; cross-sector partnerships; regional sustainable development; local agenda 21s and youth-led environmental initiatives. |
| Neil Craik | Public and regulatory law, with a focus on international environmental law, domestic and comparative environmental law, natural resources law and municipal and planning law. Current research examines bi-lateral and tri-lateral environmental governance structures in North America, with a particular focus on the impact of federalism on transnational regulatory activities and the regulatory role of private transboundary environmental litigation. |
| Judie Cukier | Tourism employment and entrepreneurship,
gender and development, tourism and community development, marine parks,
Southeast Asia, Caribbean. |
| Brent Doberstein | Resource and environmental management, with emphasis on developing countries; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; capacity building; waste management; and natural hazards. |
| Blair Feltmate | Identifying the additive value of sustaibale development on an industry-specific basis, communicating the additive value of sustainable development to the capital markets (primarily retail and institutional fund managers, and institutional money management consultants), identfying emerging drivings for coprorate sustainable development. |
| Pierre Filion |
Downtown and inner city planning, metropolitan region planning, socioeconomic change. |
| Bruce Frayne | Sustainable cities, human migration, urbanization and food security, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Geoff Lewis | Green building and urban sustainability, residential energy efficiency, renewable energy technology (especially wind and PV), the electricity system (centralized and distributed generation, transmission, and operation), energy policy, spatial analysis. |
| Haiying Lin | Strategic alliances for sustainability, sustainable enterprise, voluntary environmental programs, stakeholder involvement in environmental governance, global corporate sustainability, environmental policy and innovation, environmental policy and decision making in developing countries. |
| Jennifer Lynes | Business and environment; corporate investment strategies;
innovative practices or products; waste audits; eco-labelling. |
| Geoffery Malleck | Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and economic development, the culture of entrepreneurship |
| Clare Mitchell |
Rural and small town Canada, counter urbanization and heritage tourism |
| Sanjay Nepal | Exploring the links between biodiversity conservation and tourism, particularly in areas of resolving conflicts between wildlife agencies and local communities, tourism impacts on the environment (in parks and protected areas, and remote communities), community participation, and local level development through tourism. Current research focus is in Nepal, Thailand and Western Canada. |
| Dawn Parker | Development of integrated socio-economic and biophysical models of land-use change, agent-based modeling, complexity theory, geographic information systems, environmental and resource economics. |
| Paul Parker |
Sustainable energy strategies; conservation; renewable energy; energy policy; local economic development; green community entrepreneurship; community energy planning |
| Joe (Zhu) Qian | Land use and urban form, land use reform and urbanization in China, heritage conservation in China |
| Ian Rowlands | Energy management strategies (especially electricity), electricity policy, demand management and renewable energy, business and the environment, international environmental politics and political economy. |
| Dan Scott | Climate change impacts and adaptation, in particular
the effects of climate change on tourism and recreation; protected areas
and biodiversity conservation. |
| Steffanie Scott | Agro-food system sustainability, small-scale producers, local food systems, organic and ecological food production, environment-development interfaces, East Asia and Canada. |
| Mark Seasons | Urban and regional planning; mid-size cities; monitoring, evaluation and indicators; local economic development; public administration; federal land use planning, strategic planning. |
| Larry Swatuk | Africa; water management; environmental politics; the South in globalization; natural resources governance |
| Tara Vinodrai | Urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change |
| Johanna Wandel | Climate change adaptation, community vulnerability assessment, institutions and climate change adaptation. |
| Olaf Weber | Environmental and sustainable finance with a focus on sustainable credit risk management, socially responsible investment, social banking and the link between sustainability and financial performance of enterprises |
| Clarence Woudsma | Freight transportation and logistics - policy and practice, urban transportation policy issues, climate change and transportation, regulation/deregulation of transportation provision, urban freight planning and city logistics, transportation demand management, integrated spatial methods (GIS/RS/ESDA) |
| Steven B. Young | Resource efficiency and business sustainability including: life cycle assessment, supply-chain analysis, corporate social responsibility, environmental performance evaluation of products and technologies, technical and policy foundations for greenhouse gas management (e.g. carbon neutrality and carbon credits). |
LED students may also find that their interests overlap
with professors in other UW faculties, and with members of the Department
of Geography at nearby Wilfrid Laurier University.
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