Simon Dalby is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics.
He is co-editor of Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998), The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge 1998, 2006), Reframing Climate Change (Routledge 2016) and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990/Bloomsbury 2016), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009).
Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Victoria and holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. Before joining the Balsillie School he was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Select Publications
- Dalby, Simon. “Climate Change, Gaia and the Anthropocene” in R.C. Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh, and Pieter Terhorst (eds) Handbook of Geographies of Globalization Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2018. 307-317.
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- Dalby, Simon. “Firepower: Geopolitical Cultures in the Anthropocene” Geopolitics 23(3). 2018. 718-742.
- Megoran, Nick and Simon Dalby. “Geopolitics and Peace: A Century of Change in the Discipline of Geography” Geopolitics 23(2). 2018. 251-276.
- Mangat, Rupinder and Simon Dalby. “Climate and Wartalk: Metaphors, Imagination, Transformation” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 6. 2018.
- Dalby, Simon. “Geopolitics in the Anthropocene” in Al Bergeson and Christian Suter (eds) The Return of Geopolitics Zurich: Lit. 2018. 149-166.
- Dalby, Simon. “Canadian Geopolitical Culture: Climate Change and Sustainability” The Canadian Geographer. 2018.
- Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies (on sabbatical July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019)
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- PhD, Simon Fraser University, 1988
- MA, University of Victoria, 1982
- BA Mod., Dublin University, Trinity College, 1979
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