christopher
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Christopher Gore is Associate Professor in the Department
of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University. In addition to a PhD from the University of Toronto, he holds a Master of Arts
(M.A.) in Political Science and Environmental Studies from the University
of Toronto, and an Honours Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences
(B.Sc. Env.) from the University of Guelph. Chris’ doctoral research,
supported by an IDRC Doctoral Research Award, focused on the multilevel
politics and process of energy sector reform in the East African country
of Uganda. This research builds on Chris’ globally comparative
and Canadian research interests in the politics, policy, and administration
of urban and environmental issues.
During the course of his graduate studies, Chris also
engaged in several professional activities. He held an internship with
the (former) Global Environment Unit at the World Bank in Washington
D.C., and also co-authored a globally comparative report on decentralization
for United Nations-Habitat. Domestically, Chris has authored and co-authored
research reports for Health Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of the
Environment. For example, in 2002, Chris co-authored a Commissioned
Report for the Walkerton Inquiry, which examined the administration
of drinking water services in Ontario, and in 2005, he collaborated
on a report reviewing Ontario’s environmental assessment system.
Chris maintains an active research agenda relating
to the politics, policy and administration of urban and environmental
issues in North America, and Africa. Areas of present and future research
include: environmental and natural resource policy; the politics of
energy and climate change; comparative urban governance; privatization
of environmental services; tensions between local, national, and global
interests in urban and environmental management, service delivery, and
public sector reform. Chris is Book Series co-editor [with Dr. Richard Stren (Emeritus, University of Toronto)] for a new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Urban Politics in a Global Society.
Publications include:
- Review of The New Scramble for Africa, Pádraig Carmody. [Cambridge, UK, and Maiden, MA: Polity Press, 2011]. Global Environmental Politics 12:2 (May 2012): 117-119.
- "Strengthening capacity for sustainable livelihoods and food security through urban agriculture among HIV and AIDS affected households in Nakuru, Kenya" (with Nancy Karanja, Fiona Yeudall, Sanwel Mbugua, Mary Njenga, Gordon Prain, Donald Cole, Aimee Webb, Daniel Sellen, and Jennifer Levy). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 8 (2010): 40-53.
- "The Limits and Opportunities of Networks: Municipalities and Canadian Climate Change Policy." Review of Policy Research 27:1 (2010): 27-46.
- Review of The Limits of Boundaries. Why City-Regions Cannot Be Self-Governing by Andrew Sancton. Canadian Journal of Political Science 42:3 (September 2009): 811-813.
- "Local Government Response to Climate Change: Our Last, Best Hope?" (with Pamela Robinson). In Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance, ed. Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, 137-158. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
- Environmental Challenges and Opportunities: Local-Global Perspectives on Canadian Issues, ed. (with Peter Stoett). Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.
- “Introduction” (with Peter Stoett). In Environmental Challenges and Opportunities: Local-Global Perspectives on Canadian Issues, ed. Christopher Gore and Peter Stoett, 1-12. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.
- “Summary of Themes: Moving Forward” (with Peter Stoett). In Environmental Challenges and Opportunities: Local-Global Perspectives on Canadian Issues, ed. Christopher Gore and Peter Stoett, 327-331. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2009.
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"Healthy urban food production and local government." In Healthy City Harvests: Generating Evidence to Guide Policy on Urban Agriculture, ed. Donald Cole, Diana Lee-Smith & George Nasinyama, 49-65. Lima, Peru: CIP/Urban Harvest and Makerere University Press, 2008.
- "Electricity and privatisation in Uganda: The origins of the crisis and problems with the response." In Electric Capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the Power Grid, ed. David McDonald, 359-399. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council; London: Earthscan, 2008.
- “Environment and Development in Uganda:
Understanding the Global Influence on Domestic Policy.” In Environmental
management in global context: Perspectives from the South, ed.
Jordi Díez & O.P. Dwivedi, 155-181. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008.
- “Barriers to Canadian Municipal Response
to Climate Change” (with Pamela Robinson). Canadian Journal
of Urban Research 14:1 (Summer 2005): 102-121.
- “Shifts in environmental governance
in Canada: how are citizen environment groups to respond?” (with
Beth Savan and Alexis Morgan). Environment and Planning C: Government
and Policy 22:4 (August 2004): 605-619.
- “Volunteer Environmental Monitoring
and the Role of Universities: The Case of Citizens’ Environment
Watch” (with Beth Savan and Alexis Morgan). Environmental
Management 31:5 (May 2003): 561-568.
- Decentralization in Global Perspective. A
review of twenty-eight country experiences (with Richard Stren).
Report submitted to UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya. October 2002.
- Drinking Water Services: A Functional Review
of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (with James Merritt).
Commissioned Paper 5. Report submitted to the Government of Ontario,
Walkerton Inquiry, 2002.
- “Policy Implications of the Kyoto Protocol for Canada: An Overview”
(with Steven Bernstein). Isuma: Canadian Journal of Policy Research
2:4 (Winter 2001): 26-36.
- “Resource Security and the Canada-US
Pacific Salmon Dispute.” Environment and Security 4
(2000): 57-72.
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