Environmental and Energy Policy
Environmental and energy policy is an emerging discipline within the social sciences. In response to our social responsibilities and impacts on the natural environment, environmental and energy policy seeks to better understand human decision-making that directly or indirectly affects our natural world. Environmental and energy policy research in the social sciences department investigates this issue from a number of interrelated perspectives, including energy production and consumption, environmental governance, and human relations with the natural environment, emphasizing sustainability. Water management and policy is one of our areas of specialization.
| Faculty | Areas of Interest |
|---|---|
Great Lakes of North America; International Law; Malta; Scholarship of Pedagogy | |
The governance of technological systems and uses of the environment.; The political ecology of energy. | |
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy; Bioenergy policy | |
Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Sustainability science; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity and Conservation; International Trade; Information Theory | |
Transboundary Water Governance; Water Security; Political and Cultural Geography; Environmental Governance; Nature-Society | |
Energy Policy; Ecological Economics; Emissions Trading | |
Historical and Industrial Archaeology; Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Haciendas, Plantations, and Industrial Communities in the American West, Latin America, and the Caribbean; Issues Related to Colonialism, World-Systems Analysis, post-Colonailism, and Globalization; Relevance of Archaeology and Heritage to Identity Formation and Contemporary Social Systems | |
Canadian Energy and Environmental Issues; Climate Change Adaptation; Oil Sands Development; Forest Policy | |
Rural Sociology; Population and Environment; Environmental Sociology; Community Engaged Scholarship; Internal Migration; GIS and spatial analysis | |