Publications and Media

Journal articles

O’Garra, T., Kuz, V., Deneault, A., Orr, C.J., and Chan, S. (2024). Early engagement and co-benefits strengthen cities' climate commitments. Nature Cities. 1: 315-324. doi: 10.1038/s44284-024-00052-6.

Orr, C.J. and Fyles, J.W. (2023). Progressive selection and the erosion of Canadian environmental governance: evidence from elite interviews. Environmental Politics. doi: 10.1080/09644016.2022.2146936.

Orr, C.J. (2022). Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s. Canadian Journal of History. 57(2): 246-279. doi: 10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101. Link to journal.

Orr, C.J. and Kish, K.. (2022). Sustainability Transformations: Emerging Pathways Toward Safe and Just Futures for People and the Planet. Editorial for Special Issue in Challenges in Sustainability. 10(1): 2 doi: 10.12924/cis2022.10010001. PDF

Westman, L., Patterson, J., Macrorie, R., Orr, C.J., Ashcraft, C., Castán Broto, V., Dolan, D., Gupta, M., van der Heijden, J., Hickmann, T., Hobbins, R., Papin, M., Robin, E., Rosan, C., Torrens, J., and Webb, R. (2022). Compound Urban Crises. Ambio. 51: 1402-1415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01697-6. PDF

Kish, K., Mallery, Yahya Haage, G., Melgar-Melgar, R., Burke, M., Orr, C.J., L., Sanniti, S., and Larson, J. (2021). Fostering critical pluralism with systems theory, methods, and heuristics. Ecological Economics. 189(2021): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107171.

Medema, W., Adamowski, J., Orr, C.J., Furber, A., Wals, A., and Milot, N. (2017). Building a Foundation for Knowledge Co-Creation in Collaborative Water Governance: Dimensions of Stakeholder Networks Facilitated through Bridging Organizations. Water. 9(1): 60 doi: 10.3390/w9010060.

Schmidt, J.G., Brown, P.G., and Orr, C.J. (2016). Ethics in the Anthropocene: a research agenda. The Anthropocene Review. 3(3): 188-200. doi: 10.1177/2053019616662052.

Orr, C.J., Adamowski, J.F., Medema, W. and Milot, N. (2016). A multi-level perspective on the legitimacy of collaborative water governance in Québec. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 41(3): 353-371. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2015.1110502.

Orr, C.J. Williams, K.C. Laurent, K.L. Friedman, K.B. Krantzberg, G. Scavia, D. and Creed, I.F. (2015). Trying Hard to Adapt to a Chaotic World: How Complex Challenges Overwhelmed Best Intentions. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 41 Supplement 1: 139-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2014.12.003.

Medema, W., Adamowski, J.F., Orr, C.J., Wals, A., and Milot, N. (2015). Towards sustainable water governance: Examining water governance issues in Québec through the lens of multi-loop social learning. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 40(4): 373-391. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2015.1088403.

Amrose, S.E. Bandaru, S.R.S. Delaire, C. van Genuchten, C.M. Dutta, M. Debsarkar, A. Orr, C. Roy, J. Das, A. and Gadgil, A. (2013). Electro-chemical Arsenic Remediation: Field Trials in West Bengal. Science of the Total Environment. 488-489: 539-546. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.074.

Edited books

Orr, C.J. Kish, k. and Jennings, B. (eds). (2020). Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet. Routledge.

Book chapters and other publications

Costanza, R. Fioramonti, L. Kubiszewski, I. Markowicz, D. Orr, C.J. Trebeck, K. and Wallis, S. (2020). Chapter 24: Creating a Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) to motivate and facilitate the transition. In Costanza, R. Erikson, J. Farley, J. and Kubiszewski, I. (eds). Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics. 399-407: Edward Elgar.

Jennings, B., Kish, K., and Orr, C.J. (2020). Chapter 1: Introduction: The Ecological Crisis and the Future of Liberty in Orr, C.J. Kish, k. and Jennings, B. (eds). Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet. Routledge.

Orr, C.J. and Brown, P.G. (2020). Chapter 17: From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to Harmony in the Ecozoic in Orr, C.J. Kish, k. and Jennings, B. (eds). Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet. Routledge. PDF

Orr C.J. (2018). Uneconomic Growth. In: Dominick A. DellaSala, and Michael I. Goldstein (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene 4: 277-285. Oxford: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.10474-4. PDF

Theses

Orr, C.J. 2020. The paradox of growth and the promise of unsettled times: Canadian politics of the economy and the environment 1867-2017. PhD dissertation. McGill University. PDF

Orr, C.J. (2015). The Moral Dimension: Examining Collaborative Water Governance in Quebec Through the Lens of Legitimacy. M.S. Thesis. McGill University Libraries. Montreal, Quebec. 1-150.