Peter Stoett
PhD
Dean
Professor
Faculty of Social Science and HumanitiesGlobal environmentalist and human rights advocate leads groundbreaking interdisciplinary research and programs at Ontario Tech University
peter.stoett@ontariotechu.ca
905.721.8668 ext. 5856
Areas of expertise
- Certificate - Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership Harvard University, USA 2015
- PhD - International Relations; Comparative Politics of Developing Countries Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 1994
- MA - International Development; Canadian Government and Politics University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario 1990
- BA (Honours) - Political Studies (Major), History (Minor) University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario 1988
Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Earth Law, and Environmental Justice: Integrating Knowledge and Reconceptualising Law and Governance
Montréal, Québec May 24, 201757th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations, Earth Systems Governance Representations of and Rights for the Environment Workgroup
Montréal, Québec April 13, 2017Future Earth and UNESCO Partners
Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia September 12, 2017Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
Governing the Plastic Plague
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia March 29, 2017Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
People and Plastic: The Oceans Plastic Crisis, Global Governance, and Development Norms
Fordham University, New York City, New York June 18, 20162016 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System
Marine Obligations Ergo Omnes: Reducing the Plastic Heritage of Humankind
The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague, Netherlands April 1, 2016Global Governance Reform Initiative: Oceans Governance Conference
Greening the Grey Zone: Global Wildlife Crime Enforcement and Sustainable Development
The Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands June 13, 20152015 Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System
Codifying Ecocide or Promoting Environmental Justice: Towards a More Effective Contribution from Global Governance
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario June 2, 20152015 Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association
A Mid-Range Theoretical Framework: The Internet in International Relations
Montréal, Québec July 20, 2014International Political Science Association World Congress
Bioinvasion Policy Integration in North America and Europe
Madrid, Spain July 4, 2012International Political Science Association World Congress
Towards Continental Environmental Policy? North American Transnational Networks and Governance
Published in SUNY series in Environmental Governance: Local-Regional-Global Interactions August 1, 2017Peter Stoett & Owen Temby
What are the most important transnational governance arrangements for environmental policy in North America? Has their proliferation facilitated a transition towards integrated continental environmental policy, and if so, to what degree is this integration irreversible? These governance arrangements are diverse and evolving, consisting of binational and trinational organizations created decades ago by treaties and groups of stakeholders—with varying degrees of formalization—who work together to address issues that no single country can alone. Together they provide leadership in numerous areas of environmental concern, including invasive species, energy efficiency, water, and terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. This book explores these arrangements, examining features such as stakeholder inclusion, organizational activities and functions, and issue comprehensiveness.
Antarctica and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity
Published in PLoS Biology March 28, 2017Steven L. Chown , Cassandra M. Brooks, Aleks Terauds, Céline Le Bohec, Céline van Klaveren-Impagliazzo, Jason D. Whittington, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Bernard W. T. Coetzee, Ben Collen, Peter Convey, Kevin J. Gaston, Neil Gilbert, Mike Gill, Robert Höft, Sam Johnston, Mahlon C. Kennicutt II, Hannah J. Kriesell, Yvon Le Maho, Heather J. Lynch, Maria Palomares, Roser Puig-Marcó, Peter Stoett, Melodie A. McGeoch
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, adopted under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides the basis for taking effective action to curb biodiversity loss across the planet by 2020—an urgent imperative. Yet, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which encompass 10% of the planet’s surface, are excluded from assessments of progress against the Strategic Plan. The situation is a lost opportunity for biodiversity conservation globally. We provide such an assessment. Our evidence suggests, surprisingly, that for a region so remote and apparently pristine as the Antarctic, the biodiversity outlook is similar to that for the rest of the planet. Promisingly, however, much scope for remedial action exists.
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Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Macrolevel Drivers and Policy Responses
Published in Examining the Role of Environmental Change on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics January 1, 2017Catherine Machalaba, Cristina Romanelli & Peter Stoett
The prediction of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and the avoidance of their tremendous social and economic costs is contingent on the identification of their most likely drivers. It is argued that the drivers of global environmental change (and climate change as both a driver and an impact) are often the drivers of EIDs; and that the two overlap to such a strong degree that targeting these drivers is sound epidemiological policy. Several drivers overlap with the leading causes of biodiversity loss, providing opportunities for health and biodiversity sectors to generate synergies at local and global levels. This chapter provides a primer on EID ecology, reviews underlying drivers and mechanisms that facilitate pathogen spillover and spread, provides suggested policy and practice-based actions toward the prevention of EIDs in the context of environmental change, and identifies knowledge gaps for the purpose of further research.
Avoiding Catastrophes: Seeking Synergies Among the Public Health, Environmental Protection, and Human Security Sectors
Published in The Lancet Global Health October 1, 2016Peter Stoett, Peter Daszak, Cristina Romanelli, Catherine Machalaba, Ronald Behringer, Frank Chalk, Stephen Cornish, Simon Dalby, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, Zaryab Iqbal, Tom Koch, Florian Krampe, Marieme Lo, Keith Martin, Kyle Matthews, Jason W Nickerson, James Orbinski, Andrew Price-Smith, Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard, Adnan Raja, David M Secko, Adan Suazo & Ashok Swain
Global health catastrophes have complex origins, often rooted in social disruption, poverty, conflict, and environmental collapse. Avoiding them will require a new integrative analysis of the links between disease, armed conflict, and environmental degradation within a socioecological vulnerability and human security context. Exploring these connections was the aim of Avoiding Catastrophe: Linking Armed Conflict, Harm to Ecosystems, and Public Health, an expert workshop held in May 4–6, 2016, at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Citizen Participation in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Consultation Process: Toward Global Democratic Governance
Published in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations October 1, 2016Peter Stoett
In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda, a transformative plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity containing seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. To inform and animate the negotiations, the UN launched an ambitious series of consultations, involving inter alia governments, civil society, business, knowledge-based institutions, and citizens. This article contributes to the debate on democracy and global governance, drawing on democratic theory and the lessons of the elite donor-driven process that led to the Millennium Development Goals. It argues that, in the age of globalization, citizen participation is vital for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. It then assesses the nature and extent of such participation in three UN 2030 Agenda consultation channels: the High-Level Panel, the national consultations, and the MY World citizen survey. The latter, in particular, exceeded the expectations of stakeholder democracy and ventured into a more direct participatory realm.
Climate Change and Health: Transcending Silos to Find Solutions
Published in Annals of Global Health May 1, 2015Catherine Machalaba, Cristina Romanelli, Peter Stoett, Sarah E.Baum, Timothy A.Bouley, PeterDaszak & William B.Karesh
Climate change has myriad implications for the health of humans, our ecosystems, and the ecological processes that sustain them. Projections of rising greenhouse gas emissions suggest increasing direct and indirect burden of infectious and noninfectious disease, effects on food and water security, and other societal disruptions. As the effects of climate change cannot be isolated from social and ecological determinants of disease that will mitigate or exacerbate forecasted health outcomes, multidisciplinary collaboration is critically needed.
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Spreading the Guilt: Ethics, Security, and Canadian Climate Change Adaption Policies
Published in Unsettled Balance Ethics, Security, and Canada’s International Relations, UBC Press April 15, 2015Peter Stoett
Since 9/11, the wars on terror, economic crises, climate change, and humanitarian emergencies have led decision makers to institute new measures to maintain security. Foreign policy analysts tend to view these decisions as being divorced from ethics, but Unsettled Balance shows that arguments about rights, obligations, norms, and values have played a profound role in Canadian foreign policy and international relations.
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Bilateral and Trilateral Natural Resource and Biodiversity Governance in North America: Organizations, Networks, and Inclusion
Published in Review of Policy Research January 8, 2015Peter Stoett & Owen Temby
This special issue represents an assessment of international organizations and transboundary networks governing natural resource and biodiversity issues in and among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The management of natural resources and protection of biodiversity is a highly technocratic process requiring collaboration and information sharing among a diversity of actors to facilitate the development and coordination of policy addressing complex and multisectoral issues. Numerous bilateral and trilateral organizations exist to ostensibly facilitate transboundary governance, yet the scholarly knowledge of their respective roles has many gaps. In this introductory article, we propose a typology of international environmental organizations based on two dimensions: (1) whether their activities center primarily on capacity building or regulation, and (2) the extent to which they exemplify the “bureaucratic” or “post-bureaucratic” model of governance. Using this typology we provide an overview of the special issue's contributions in terms of their assessment of North American bilateral and trilateral environmental organizations and transboundary networks.
Surviving Ideological Fixation: Ecology, Justice, and Canadian Foreign Policy Under Harper
Published in Canadian Foreign Policy May 1, 2014Peter Stoett
The first decade and a half of the 21st century has not been kind to Canada's reputation in the realm of international relations. This is the result of policy decisions that have alienated the country, as exemplified by the country's policy-making in two domains in which Canada had previously earned respect as a global leader hitting above its weight: international environmental protection and international justice. In this commentary, we argue that Canada's foreign policy in these two areas derive from a common reactive and dogmatic policy-making which is, despite its name, actually aimed at appeasing domestic audiences.
The Politics of Extinction
Published in Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinction, New York, Cengage Learning January 1, 2013Bernhard Grzimek, Norman MacLeod, J David Archibald & Phillip S Levin
Based on the acclaimed print series, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., this new supplement covers extinct life. Written for students and general researchers, this supplement explores all aspects of extinctions and extinct life. Approximately 80 articles outline major extinctions and related scientific areas. Entries are written by nationally renowned subject specialists and peer-reviewed by the editor-in-chief and an editorial board of academic experts specializing in zoology, paleontology, and environmental science.
Global Contributor for GEO-6
Government of Canada January 1, 2015Nominated by the Government of Canada to contribute to the United Nations Environment Programme's flagship publication Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6), Dr. Stoett is a Global Contributor in Governance, Outlooks and Policy sections as well as Regional Contributor/Lead Author in the Regional Assessment for North America. He is also the Co-ordinating Lead Author on the Biodiversity section for the Global Report due in 2018.
Taskforce Leader
Conceptual Foundations, Earth System Governance Platform February 1, 2016Dr. Stoett serves as a Co-convener of the Earth Systems Governance Representations of and Rights for the Environment Workgroup.
Alumni Council Member
Fullbright and U.S. State Department International Visitor's Program January 1, 2013Appointed to the Alumni Council of the Fulbright and U.S. State Department International Visitor’s Program of United States Consulate in Montréal.
Distance Mentor
University of Sussex, Brighton January 1, 2012Funded by the university's Institute of Development Studies, Dr. Stoett provides mentorship for Support to Improve Climate Research and Information Systems in South Asia.
Working Group Member
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) January 1, 2012Dr. Stoett has been appointed to the Working Group on Invasive Alien Species Indicators, Biodiversity Indicators Partnership with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Sustainable Cities Advisory Committee Member
McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy January 1, 2009Dr. Stoett was appointed to the Sustainable Cities Advisory Committee of McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, Montréal.
Editorial Board Member
Islamabad Law ReviewDr. Stoett is an Editorial Board Member for Review of Policy Research: the Politics and Policy of Science and Technology; International Wildlife Law and Policy; Islamabad Law Review (International Islamic University, Pakistan).
Botanic Gardens as Actors in Global Environmental Governance
SSHRC Insight Grant January 1, 2016This four-year research project focuses on the role of botanic gardens in communities around the world. The research will explore how botanic gardens are interacting with each other, assess their scientific potential and output, as well as whether they can be used as agents of change.
