Sarah Burch, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Canada. Dr. Burch has published widely on transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, and innovative strategies for governing sustainability. She co-teaches a Massive Open Online Course called ‘Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations’, which reaches thousands of students in over 130 countries. Â
Dr. Burch received a PhD in resource management and environmental studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada (2009) and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford (2009-2011). She is a co-ordinating lead author in the second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities, and North American co-ordinator of the Earth System Governance network of Research Fellows. She was a contributing author to the fourth assessment report of the (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) and was awarded a Banting Fellowship for her work on sustainability innovation. Her most recent book (2014) is entitled ‘Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice.’