Peter Stoett
Dr. Stoett’s primary research areas have been in environmental politics/policy and human rights, and the intersections between them. He is interested in the role advanced technology is playing in the fight against, as well as the perpetuation of, environmental crime and ecocide, as well as the rise of “ecopoliticide”: the strategic oppression of environmental defenders. He is also conducting research on the severe governance gap in climate geoengineering, and continues to work on global plastic pollution and other toxic waste. Professor Stoett’s work on biodiversity conservation and biosecurity also touched on the role of digital technology in advancing positive policy measures.
Selected Career Highlights
Dean and Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada, June 2017-March 2026; Founder and Director, Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Concordia University, Montreal, 2012-2017
Co-Chair, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment of Invasive Alien Species and Their Control, 2019-2023 (assessment approved by IPBES Plenary in Aug-Sept 2023)
Coordinating Lead Author, United Nations Environment’s Sixth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO6), 2015-2019, submitted to the UN Environment Assembly and published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press, winner of the PROSE Award for Environmental Science in 2020
Senior Research Fellow, Earth Systems Governance Project, International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), now part of the Future Earth consortium
Provost Visiting Scholar on Marine Plastic Pollution and Environmental Crime, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, March-April 2017
Leverhulme Visiting Scholar in Climate Justice, Reading University, Reading, U.K., May-June 2016
Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar, Mundus MAPP Consortium, International Institute of Social Studies (University of Rotterdam), The Hague, Netherlands, April-July 2013
Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian-American Relations, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Canada Institute, Washington, D.C., January-June 2012
Recent Grant Activity
2022-2023: Principal Investigator, SSHRC Connections Grant, “Tech with a Green Conscience: Environmental Governance and Advanced Technology”: $50,000 including matching funds
2021-2026: Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Grant: “Transnational Environmental Crime, Human Security, and Biosecurity: Building Effective, Integrated, Preventive Networks.” April 1 2021-March 31, 2025: $263,610
Recent Books
Warner, R., Stoett, P., Grieves, W. Canadian Ecopolitics. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025
Stoett, P., and D. Omrow, eds. Ecoviolence Studies: Human Exploitation and Environmental Crime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025
Lamalle, S., and P. Stoett, eds. Representations and Rights of the Environment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023
Stoett, P. and D. Omrow. Spheres of Transnational Ecoviolence: Environmental Crime, Human Security, and Justice. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021
