Ryan Plummer

Director of the Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC)

Ryan Plummer is Director of the Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) and Professor in the Department of Tourism and Environment at Brock University (Canada). He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Sweden) and a Scientific Director of the Canadian Rivers Institute. His multi-faceted program of research broadly concerns the governance of social-ecological systems. Water resources are the context in which his research mainly occurs and he is a Faculty Investigator in the Water Policy and Governance Group at the University of Waterloo. Findings from his research have been published in leading international journals such as Ecological Economics, Ecology and Society, Environmental Management, Frontiers in Ecology and Society, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Environmental Management, Society and Natural Resources and the UN journal Natural Resources Forum.