Laura Tozer
Assistant Professor
Email
Telephone number
416-287-5641
Website
My Website
Teaching Interests
- ESTB04H3 鈥 Addressing the Climate Crisis
- EES1134H - Climate Change Policy
Research Interests
Laura Tozer鈥檚 research tries to understand how we can accelerate action to address the climate crisis. She studies the policies and politics that can help us stop using fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. She鈥檚 especially interested in understanding how governments and communities can rapidly change cities so that they are fairer, resilient to the impacts of climate change, and powered by renewable energy. She has conducted research on the planning and implementation of just, zero carbon and resilient transitions in cities; the politics of transnational urban climate governance; and pathways to mainstream sustainability solutions so that they become standard practice for urban development.
Awards and Grants
鈥溾, UTSC Clusters of Scholarly Prominence, co-lead with Matt Hoffman, 2021-2025.
鈥淪trengthening Diverse Research Capacity for an Inclusive Green Recovery in Canada鈥, SSHRC Connection Grant led by Julie MacArthur, 2022-2023
鈥溾, SSHRC Connection Grant with Christine Mettler, 2021-2023
鈥淭he 100 Resilient Cities Initiative: A Natural Experiment in the Politics of Creating a Sustainable World鈥, SSHRC Insight Grant led by Matthew Hoffmann, 2020-2025
Publications
- Latulippe, N., Livesey, B., Whaanga-Schollum, D., Jamieson, C., Clark, J., and R. Kiddle. (2023). Maanjiwe Nendamowinan (The Gathering of Minds): Connecting Indigenous Placemakers and Caring for Place through Co-Creative Research with the Toronto Islands. Environment & Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice, Special Issue: Indigenous Research Sovereignty. Available .
- McGregor, D., Latulippe, N., Whitlow, R., Gansworth, K.L., McGregor, L., and S. Allen. (2023). Towards Meaningful Research and Engagement: Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Great Lakes Governance, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Special Issue: Bridging Knowledge Systems between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Available
- Tozer , L., Bulkeley, H., Kiss, B., Luque-Ayala, A., Voytenko Palgan, Y., McCormick, K., Wamsler, C. (forthcoming) Nature for Resilience? The Politics of Governing Urban Nature. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., van der Jagt, A., Toxopeus, H., Xie, L., & Runhaar, H. (2022). Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, 74, 102521.
- Tozer, L., Bulkeley, H., and Xie, L. (2022). . Global Environmental Politics.
- Xie, L., Bulkeley, H., & Tozer, L. (2022). . Environmental Science & Policy, 132, 119鈥130.
- Dorst, H., van der Jagt, A., Toxopeus, H., Tozer, L., Raven, R., & Runhaar, H. (2022). . Landscape and Urban Planning, 220, 104335.
- Linton, S., Clarke, A., & Tozer, L. (2022). . Energy Research & Social Science, 86, 102422.
- Linton, S., Clarke, A., & Tozer, L. (2020). Sustainability: Science Practice and Policy, 13(1), 154.
- Tozer, L. (2020) . Energy Policy. 136, 11042.
- Hughes, S., Giest, S. and Tozer, L. (2020) . Nature Climate Change. 10, 1085鈥1090.
- Tozer, L., H枚rschelmann, K., Anguelovski, I., Bulkeley, H., and Lazova, K. (2020) . Cities, 107: 102892.
- Tozer, L. (2019). Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 28(2), 32-45.
- Tozer, L. (2019) Geoforum. 102, 106-115.
- Tozer, L. and Klenk, N. (2019) Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(3), 539-557.
- Romero Lankao, P., Bulkeley, H., Pelling, M., Burch, S., Gordon, G., Gupta, J., Johnson, C., Lecavalier, E., Simon, D., Kurian, P., Tozer, L., Ziervogel, G., and Munshi, D. (2018) Nature Climate Change, 8, 754鈥756.