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Research
Latest papers
Transformative capacities for navigating system change: a framework for sustainability research and practice.
Sustainability science · 2025 · senior author
Building urban resilience through sustainability-oriented small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Urban transformations · 2022 · first author
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector.
Sustainability science · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $67,296
Heterogeneity and the mechanics of inequality: consumption expenditures in the cross-section and across generations
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $60,534
TRANSFORM: Deepening and Accelerating Transformative Sustainability Action in SMEs
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $15,000
Connecting communities to advance a sustainable energy transition
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Transformative capacities for navigating system change: a framework for sustainability research and practice.
Orr CJ, Burch S
Building urban resilience through sustainability-oriented small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Burch S, DiBella J, Wiek A, Schaltegger S, Stubbs W, Farrelly M, Ness B, McCormick K
Business models for the Anthropocene: accelerating sustainability transformations in the private sector.
Burch S, Di Bella J
Heterogeneity and the mechanics of inequality: consumption expenditures in the cross-section and across generations
Principal investigators: Gallipoli, Giovanni
Keywords: consumption; welfare; heterogeneity; distribution; family; policy; income; wealth; distribution; life cycle; measurement; policy; heterogeneity; inequality
TRANSFORM: Deepening and Accelerating Transformative Sustainability Action in SMEs
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah L.M.
Keywords: sustainability; small businesses; policy; knowledge mobilization
Connecting communities to advance a sustainable energy transition
Principal investigators: Rowlands, Ian
Remanufacturing - A manufacturing paradigm shift for deep decarbonization in a sustainable economy
Principal investigators: Jahed, Hamid HR
Keywords: Circular economy; Cold spray additive manufacturing; Deep decarbonization; GHG policy; GHG simulation and forecasting; Life assessment; Remanufacturing; Reverse logistics; Sustainability Governance; Transfer learning
High-level Sustainability Summit: Building Transformative Capacity to Support Ontario SMEs
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah L.M.
Keywords: sustainability; small businesses; policy; capacity-building
Sustainability Governance and Innovation
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah
Keywords: sustainability; small businesses; communities; entrepreneurship; innovation; transitions; governance
Sustainability Governance and Innovation
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah
Transformative sustainability governance workshop and collaborative publication
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah L.M.
Keywords: sustainability; governance; innovation; transformation; urban
The climate change imperative: changing current development paths
Principal investigators: Dale, Ann
Keywords: climate policy and innovation; multi-level governance; strategic decision-making; integrated climate change and sustainability planning; development paths; resilience
Sustainability governance: triggering transformative innovation in communities
Principal investigators: Burch, Sarah L.M.
Keywords: sustainability; governance; innovation; small business; entrepreneurship
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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