Dr. Rob De Loë

Biography

For decades, Rob’s teaching, research, and external service have focused on water and environmental governance in Canada and around the world. His major contributions lie in the areas of climate change adaptation, local capacity for water management, transboundary water governance, and collaborative approaches to environmental problem-solving. His recent water governance research has explored how traditional boundaries in water governance systems can undermine the achievement of water objectives. This issue has been a critical problem addressed in his work, which has been funded by programs such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Global Water Futures program. Starting in late 2019, Rob began winding down his water governance research program and is no longer accepting graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in that area. However, his new research program investigates how photography can be utilized to build understanding of challenging science policy questions within the environmental domain. This interdisciplinary research program combines scholarship with photographic practice, leveraging his extensive teaching and research expertise in water governance and his decades of experience as a photographer and photographic printmaker.

Research Interests