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Professor (Economics) and Associate Director PhD in Global Governance
Areas of Expertise: Economics of the Kyoto Protocol;
Climate change;
Environmental economics;
Economy;
Environment
Biography: Randall Wigle is Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario, Canada. He has published widely on topics in the areas of international trade policy and environmental economics. The overwhelming majority of this work relates to…
Associate Professor, Contemporary Studies and Geography
Areas of Expertise: Technological and natural hazards and risks
Climate change adaptation
Environmental justice
Rural resiliency
Maple syrup
Blackout
Nuclear fuel waste management
Walkerton tragedy
Tornado in Pine Lake, AB
Biography: Dr. Brenda L. Murphy is an associate professor of Geography and Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus. She studies risk and resilience issues within the context of small, rural and remote communities and spaces. …
Areas of Expertise: Human dimensions of environmental change, climate change
Building capacity for climate change adaptation
Strategies to improve environmental governance
Marine, ocean change and relationships with society
Biography: Derek Armitage is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Associate Faculty of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Associate of the Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.…
Areas of Expertise: Natural resources policy;
Environmental policy;
Climate change adaptation;
Forest management;
Canadian forest industry;
British Columbia
Biography: Kevin Hanna’s research centres on integrated approaches to natural
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Associate Professor, Director, Cold Regions Research Centre
Areas of Expertise: Northern climatology, hydrology;
Climate Change;
Greenhouse Gases;
Wetlands;
Boreal Forest;
Water Resources;
Subarctic, Arctic;
Land use Change
Biography: My research is focused on developing a further understanding of soil – vegetation – atmosphere interactions, especially as influenced by hydrologic and climatic conditions. Specific questions of interest to me include trace gas exchange in wetland and…
Areas of Expertise: Climate change in Canada’s north;
Present and past hydrology of the Mackenzie Basin Deltas;
Paleo-environmental research;
Environmental impacts on the hydrology of lakes
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