Professor

Balsillie School, Environment and Resource Studies (UW)

Contact Information

Office Number EV2-2026
Phone Number: 519-888-4567, ext. 32574
Email Address: irowland @ uwaterloo.ca
Personal Websites: http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/ihrowlands.htm

Education

PhD, University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science), 1992
Diploma in International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988
B.A. SC, University of Toronto, 1987

Areas of Specialization

Energy management policies and strategies
International environmental relations
Environment and business

Short Bio

Ian Rowlands is a Professor in Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Associate Dean (Research) in the University's Faculty of Environment (to December 2009) and an Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (to December 2009). Prof. Rowlands is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science and the Global Governance Programme (University of Waterloo).

Dr. Rowlands has research and teaching interests in the areas of energy management strategies and policy, international environmental relations and corporate environmentalism. His research has been published in many international journals, including Energy Policy, Environmental Politics, Renewable Energy, Review of Policy Research and Business Strategy and the Environment.

Dr. Rowlands was one of the Canadian representatives to the International Energy Agency - Demand Side Management Program's Task XIII on ‘Demand Response'. He has also served as a member of the Ontario Power Authority's Advisory Group on Sustainability Matters (in preparation of the Integrated Power System Plan) and its Conservation Business Stakeholder Advisory Group. Dr. Rowlands's present research activities include his participation in the national ‘Solar Buildings Research Network' (www.solarbuildings.ca) and his leadership of a multi-partner project supported by the Ontario Centre for Energy entitled ‘Energy Hub Management System: Enabling and Empowering Energy Managers Through Increased Information and Control'
(http://www.energyhub.uwaterloo.ca/).

Dr. Rowlands is also a member of the Centre for International Governance Innovation's ‘Environment and Resources Group'. His work there involves an investigation into US-Canada relations on sustainable electricity issues. He is seeking to understand better the ways in which increased international cooperation could serve to promote the increased use of renewable resources in electricity service provision and the coordinated development of ‘smart grids'.

Dr. Rowlands received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science (specialising in Chemical Engineering) from the University of Toronto, his Diploma in International and Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and his doctorate in International Relations from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science). Before joining the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1998, he was a researcher at the United Nations Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment in Denmark (1996-97) and a lecturer in International Relations and Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1991-96). Prof. Rowlands has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Italy (2003).

Most recent scholarly publications

Ian H. Rowlands, Promotion of Renewable Electricity in the United States and the European Union: Policy Progress and Prospects in TRANSATLANTIC ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY POLITICS: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, eds. (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 145-64.

Ian H. Rowlands, Renewable Electricity Politics Across Borders in Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking, and Multilevel Governance,, edited by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer, (MIT Press, 2009), pp. 181-98.

Ian H. Rowlands, Demand Response in Ontario: Exploring the Issues (working paper prepared for the Independent Electricity System Operator , Toronto, and published on their website at http://www.ieso.ca/imoweb/pubs/marketreports/omo/2009/demand_response.pdf).

Sarah J. Brown and Ian H. Rowlands, ‘Nodal Pricing in Ontario, Canada: Implications for Solar PV Electricity', Renewable Electricity (Vol. 34, No. 1, January 2009), pp. 170-78.

Ian H. Rowlands and Carey Jernigan, ‘Wind Power in Ontario: Its Contribution to the Electricity Grid', Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society (Vol. 28, No. 6, December 2008), pp. 436-53.

Recent academic/professional awards

Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Waterloo, 2009.

Courses taught

ERS 604/PSCI 604  Advanced Topics in Global Environmental Governance