Environmental Policy

Holder of an M.A. in Communication Studies (1998) and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies (2002) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also holds a B.A. in Social Thought and Political Economy and a B.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1996).

Journalist & science writer (Nature, Sci Am, New Scientist, Guardian, Telegraph). Co-author of People’s Republic of Walmart. Author of Austerity Ecology.

Economist with teaching positions at various universities. Received his BA from McGill University and PhD from UC Berkeley.

Human Dimensions of the Climate Crisis. Prof @ Boston College. Starting Fall 2023, Prof @ University of British Columbia. Coeditor, Sociology of Development.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Amherst College.

Sociologist and professor at the University of Utah. Former assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Areas of interest include ecology, political economy, and science.

Swedish scientist recognized for his work on global sustainability issues. Joint director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam.

British historian specializing in labour history. Studied under E. P. Thompson and received a Ph.D. in British history from the University of Warwick.

#ClimateChange Professor @ucl, Director of @rezatec, author of #HumanPlanet, #CradleOfHumanity, #HowToSaveOurPlanet, member of @ClimateCrisisAG. Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. He is a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, Executive Director of Rezatec Ltd and Director of The London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership.

Simon Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science at University College London, as a half time position. He holds an equivalent position at the University of Leeds. Simon was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2004-2013), and in 2011 received a Philip Leverhulme Prize recognising the international impact of his research. In 2014 he was listed as one of the world’s most highly cited scientists in the Environment/Ecology field (see highlycited.com). He gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge studying in the Department of Plant Sciences.

Dr. Leila M. Harris is a Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. She also serves as Co-Director for UBC’s Program on Water Governance, is a member of the EDGES research collaborative (Environment and Development: Gender, Equity, and Sustainability Perspectives), and is an Associate of the Department of Geography, and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC. Harris’s work examines social, cultural, political-economic, institutional and equity dimensions of environmental and resource issues. Her current research focuses on the intersection of environmental issues and inequality / social difference, water governance shifts (e.g. marketization, participatory governance), in addition to conducting a multi-sited analysis of the non-material dimensions of water insecurity, highlighting themes such as emotions, trust, senses of belonging and state legitimacy (e.g. South Africa, Brazil, and Canada). Harris also served as principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded International WaTERS Research and Training Network focused on water governance, equity and resilience in the Global South.

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