Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2018
Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance & Innovation
University of Waterloo
Dr. Sarah Burch holds a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research, writing and teaching focus on transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, innovative strategies for making progress on sustainability, and the unique contributions that small businesses can make to this solving this complex challenge. She is a Coordinating Lead Author of the Earth System Governance project's New Directions Initiative, which is creating the Science and Implementation Plan that will inform the research of an international network of more than 500 environmental governance scholars over the next 10 years. She was a Contributing Author to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and will be a Lead Author in the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report beginning in 2018. Sarah holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, was a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars. Her most recent book is entitled 'Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice,' and she taught the first Massive Open Online Course on climate change, which reached thousands over students in over 130 countries.
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