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Amelia Clarke
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Degrees:
| Ph.D. | Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Quebec |
| M.E.S. | Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia |
| B.Sc. | Biology, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick |
Biographical Statement:
Dr. Amelia Clarke has been working on environment and sustainability issues since 1989, and was recognized as one of 50 Canadian environmental leaders in the Spring 2008 issue of magazine Green Living. She is now a faculty member in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo and is Director of the Master of Environment and Business (MEB) program. She holds a PhD in Management from McGill University. Amelia Clarke was also the President of Sierra Club Canada from 2003 to 2006. She has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative (2007-2010); Program Committee for the International Forum on Applied Sustainable Development (2007); the Canadian Advisory Committee to the World Peace Forum (2006); the federal government’s National Advisory Committee to the U.N. Habitat’s World Urban Forum III (2006); and the Canadian delegation during the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg) negotiations (2002). In 1996, she founded the Sierra Youth Coalition, and is proud of having launched their sustainable campus program which is now active on more than 80 university campuses.
Research Interests:
Dr. Clarke's current research and interests include: community sustainable development strategies; corporate social and environmental responsibility; campus environmental management; collaborative strategic management; cross-sector partnerships; and youth-led social entrepreneurship.
Major Project Areas:
1. Sustainable Communities:
2. Sustainable Campuses:
3. Social Entrepreneurship / Green Jobs:
(link to presentation with an overview of all research as of 2010)
Selected Publications, Conference Proceedings, and Presentations:
Clarke, A., & Fuller, M. (2011) Collaborative Strategic Management: Strategy Formulation and Implementation by Multi-Organizational Cross-Sector Social Partnerships. Journal of Business Ethics, 94(Supplement 1): 85-101. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0781-5 (link to journal article / link to pre-publication version)
Glor-Bell, J. & Clarke, A. (2011). Community Engagement in University of British Columbia’s Climate Action Plan (pp. 39-60). Leal Filho (Ed.) World Trends on Education for Sustainable Development. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers.
Clarke, A. (2011) Partnerships for Sustainability at the Local Level, Annual Review of Social Partnerships. Issue 6 (May): 4. (link to publication)
Clarke, A. (2011) Implementation of Collaborative Community Sustainable Development Strategies in Canada. Presentations of the 9th biennial edition of AMERICANA, The International Environmental Technology Trade Show and Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (link to presentation)
Clarke, A. (2010) Implementing Regional Sustainable Development Strategies: Exploring Structure and Outcomes in Cross-Sector Collaborations. Doctoral dissertation. Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada: 451. (link to dissertation)
Clarke, A., & Dougherty, I. (2010) Youth-Led Social Entrepreneurship: Enabling Social Change. International Review of Entrepreneurship. 8(2): online. (link to journal article /link to pre-publication version)
Clarke, A. (2010) Four Archetypal Structures for the Implementation of a Collaborative Strategy: A Study of Canadian Collaborative Regional Sustainable Development Strategies, Proceedings of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) Conference, Paris, France.
Kouri, R., & Clarke, A. (2010) Framing ‘Green Jobs’ Discourse: Analysis of Popular Usage in the UK, Proceedings of the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Regina, Canada.
Helferty, A., Clarke, A. & Kouri, R. (2009) The Campus Climate Challenge: Innovative Multi-stakeholder Approaches to Reducing Emissions at Canadian Colleges and Universities (pp. 365-388). Leal Filho, W. & Mannke, F. (Eds.) Interdisciplinary Aspects of Climate Change. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers. (link to book / link to pre-publication version of chapter)
Clarke, A. & Kouri, R. (2009). Choosing an appropriate university or college environmental management system. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(11): 971-984. (link to journal article / link to pre-publication version)
Helferty, A., & Clarke, A. (2009) Student-Led Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions at Canadian Colleges and Universities. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.10(3): 287-300. (link to journal article / link to pre-publication version)
Clarke, A. & Erfan, A. (2007). Regional Sustainability Strategies: A Comparison of Eight Canadian Approaches. Plan Canada, 47(3): 15-18. (link to journal citation / link to pre-publication version)
Clarke, A. (2007) Collaborative Strategic Management: Success Factors per Process Phase, ESADE's Institute of Public Management (IDGP) E-Newsletter: PUBLIC. No. 13, October 2007. (link to article)
Clarke, A. (2007). Cross Sector Collaborative Strategic Management: Regional Sustainable Development Strategies, Proceedings of the International Forum on Applied Sustainable Development, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Clarke, A. (2007). Furthering Collaborative Strategic Management Theory: Process Model and Factors Per Phase, Proceedings of the 2007 Sprott Doctoral Symposium, Ottawa, Canada.
Clarke, A. (2006). The Campus Environmental Management System Cycle in Practice: 15 years of environmental, management, education and research at Dalhousie University. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 7(4): 374-389. (link to journal article / link to pre-publication version)
Clarke, A. (2006) Regional Sustainable Development Strategies: Variations in Formulation and Content in Nine Canadian Case Studies and the Implications for Eco-Procurement, Montreal: North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation – Environment, Economy and Trade Program. (link to report)
Maguire, S. & Clarke, A. (2003). Business and the Precautionary Principle: From Divergent Perspectives to an Integrated Framework, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network (GIN), San Francisco, USA. (link to paper)
Clarke, A. (2002) Education, Chapter in: Civil Society Report: Summit or Plummet? Ottawa: Canadian Environmental Network - Forum on the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002. (link to report)
Rao, A., Clarke, A., Herbert, Y., Qualman, S., Simon, D., Lindsay, H., & O’keef, S. (1999) Sustainable Campus Resource Package, Ottawa: Sierra Youth Coalition. (link to updated version)
Segger, M., Clarke, A., Dougherty, I., Alexander, K., Marcolongo, M., & Duplisea, B. (1997) The Youth-Friendly Guide--The Youth Guidebook to Policy Change for Inter-generational Partnerships, Ottawa: Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation. (link to original version / link to updated version)
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