Dr. Blane Harvey
William Dawson Scholar
Director, Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab
Associate Member, Bieler School of Environment, McGill University
Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Associate Editor, Climate and Development Journal
Subject Editor - Integrative Sciences, FACETS Journal
- Informal and organisational learning,
- Leadership and sustainability
- Environmental and sustainability education
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Climate change and social action
- Participatory research and knowledge co-production
Dr. Blane Harvey is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University (Canada), where he leads the Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans across the social and natural sciences on the themes of learning, collaboration, environmental change and education for sustainable development. Dr. Harvey’s research investigates how climate change knowledge is produced, validated and communicated, and how facilitated learning and knowledge sharing can advance climate justice and support action on climate change, especially within communities most vulnerable to its impacts. He serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Climate and Development and Subject Editor for the journal FACETS.
- Harvey, B, Cundill-Kemp, G., Traerup, S., Charlery, L., Sankam, J. (2024). Chapter 5: Capacity building and technology transfer and cooperation. In 2024 Adaptation Gap Report. United Nations Environment Program.
- Cundill, G., Harvey, B., Ley, D. et al. (2024). Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research. Nature Climate Change 14, 662–664.
- Huang, Y.S., Harvey, B., & Vincent, K. (2024). Large-scale sustainability programming is reshaping research excellence: Insights from a meta-ethnographic study of 12 global initiatives. Environmental Science and Policy.
- Deskin, Z. & Harvey, B. (2023). Critical Food Systems Education in University Student-run Food Initiatives: Learning Dynamics, Outcomes, and Opportunities for Food Systems Transformation. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
- Harvey, B., Leite, S., Heiberg, S. (2023). Sustainability transformations at McGill: Leverage points for accelerating change. In W.M. Purcell & J. Haddock-Fraser (Eds.) Bloomsbury Handbook on Sustainability in Higher Education: An Agenda for Transformational Change, London, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Harvey, B., Huang, Y.S., Araujo, J., Vincent, K., Sabiiti, G. (2022). Breaking vicious cycles? A systems perspective on Southern leadership in climate and development research programmes. Climate and Development.
- Huang, Y.S., Harvey, B. (2021). Beyond indicators and success stories: An emerging method to assess social learning in large-scale climate adaptation programs. Frontiers in Sociology.
- Schipper, E.L.F, Ensor, J., Mukherji, A., Mirzabaev, A., Fraser, A., Harvey, B., Totin, E., Garschagen, M., Pathak, M., Antwi-Agyei, P., Tanner, T., Shawoo, Z. (2021). Equity in climate scholarship: a manifesto for action. Climate and Development. 13(10), 853-856.
- Harvey, B., Cochrane, L. & Van Epp, M. (2019). Charting knowledge co-production pathways in climate and development. Environmental Policy and Governance 29(2), 107-117.
