Margot Hulbert
Member of the Science-Policy Advisory Committee
Canada Research Chair, Professor
Dr. Margot A. Hurlbert, a professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and the Centre for Science and Innovation Policy at the University of Regina and the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability. Her research focuses on governance and climate change, energy and water; interrogating laws, policies and practices that will address both the problem of climate change and adaptation, and mitigation to the changing climate. She has participated in and led research projects focusing on aspects of governance including energy, water, agricultural producer livelihoods, drought, and flood. Her current passion is determining participatory governance mechanisms and constructing action based imaginaries that help us achieve our Paris goals—net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The geographical focus of her research is western Canada and South America.
Margot has been a Coordinating Lead Author, Contributing Author and Review Editor for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). She has also authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and scholarly papers on a broad range of topics but more recently on the subjects of energy, Aboriginal justice, water and climate change adaptation. She has co-authored a book entitled School Law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with her fathers (second edition 1992), edited a book Pursuing Justice, an Introduction to the Study of Justice in 2010 (currently working on a second edition), co-edited Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought: The Canadian Prairies and South America in 2016, and published, Adaptive Governance of Disaster: Drought and Flood in Rural Areas in 2018.Twitter: @margot_hurlbert
