Andrea Olive, a professor associated with the Environmental Governance Lab, showcased her research proposal regarding the politics behind biodiversity legislations in Canada. Specifically, Olive aims to uncover the political and policy causes of declining rates of wildlife in the context of increasing global conservation. Furthermore, she identifies three challenges within the issue: data availability, multi-agency overlap, and rapid climate change. These concerns further reflect the complexity of ongoing biodiversity policies, making it challenging to determine a single conclusion as to why increased conversation (especially globally) has failed to support wildlife conservation. Lastly, there are plans for future workshops to be hosted in order to establish solutions to political barriers as well as plans to collaborate with eNGOs and indigenous groups in order to better understand the research topic.

To learn more about Andrea’s work: 

Andrea Olive and Grant Penton. 2018. Species at Risk in Ontario: An Examination of Environmental Non‐Governmental Organizations. The Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien. doi:10.1111/cag.12483.

Andrea Olive and Katie Valentine. 2018. Is Anyone Out There? Exploring Saskatchewan’s Civil Society Involvement in Hydraulic Fracturing. Energy Research and Social Science 39: 192-197.

Andrea Olive. 2018. Oil Development in the Grasslands: Saskatchewan’s Bakken Formation and Species at Risk Protection. Cogent Environmental Science 40 (1): 1-17.