Angela Carter
Grenfell Campus faculty member
Assistant Professor, Political Science & Environmental Studies
Co-facilitator, Environmental Policy Institute
Forest Centre 2026
1 University Drive
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University
Corner Brook, NL A2H 6P9 Canada
Phone: (709) 637-6200, ext. 6361
Email: avcarter[at]mun[dot]ca
Websites: www.swgc.mun.ca/epi & www.swgc.mun.ca/envstudy
Academics
BA (Ottawa), MA (Carleton), MA (Cornell), PhD (Cornell)
Areas for Student Research Supervision (at Grenfell campus)
- Environmental/natural resource policy and politics
- Political ecology of oil dependence
- Social movements
Examples of Recent Courses Taught (at Grenfell campus)
POSC 3731 Environmental Policy; POSC 3550 Politics and the Environment; POSC 4650 Public Policy in Resource Dependent Economies.
Bio
Professor Carter researches comparative environmental regulatory/policy regimes surrounding oil developments in key oil-dependent Canadian (Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, and Saskatchewan) and American (Wyoming and Alaska) cases. She is currently a collaborator on a SSHRC Strategic Research Grant entitled "The Environmental Assessment Processes of Canadian 'Frontier' Oil and Gas". At Grenfell Campus she has played a lead role in establishing the Environmental Policy Institute and the Master of Arts in Environmental Policy program. Professor Carter has also served as a member of Transport Canada's Regional Advisory Council on Oil Spill Response, Newfoundland and Labrador Council, and as a Steering Committee board member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network.
Select Publications
Carter, A. V. (forthcoming 2011) “Environmental Regulation in the Tar Sands: A Petro‐Politics Explanation. In Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta, L. Adkin, B. Miller, N. Krogman and R. Haluza‐Delay (eds): UBC Press.
Haluza‐DeLay, R. and A. V. Carter. (forthcoming 2011) “Resistance to Petro‐Politics.” In Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta, L. Adkin, B. Miller, N. Krogman and R. Haluza‐Delay (eds): UBC Press.
Carter, A. V., and A. Zalik. (forthcoming 2011) “Rentier State? Rethinking Alberta Via Political Ecology.” In Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta, L. Adkin, B. Miller, N. Krogman and R. Haluza‐Delay (eds): UBC Press.
Le Billon, P., and A. V. Carter. (2010) “Dirty Security: Tar Sands, Energy Security and Environmental Violence,” in Critical Environmental Security: Rethinking the Links Between Natural Resources and Political Violence (New Issues in Security #5), eds. M. Schnurr and L. Swatuk. Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University.
Carter, A. V. (2007) “Economic Development Benefits of the Oil and Gas Industry in Newfoundland and Labrador,” St. John’s: Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Select Policy Submissions
Carter, A. V., and G. S. Fraser. (2011) "A Framework for Effective Environmental Regulation in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Offshore Oil and Gas Sector: Applying Lessons from the Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry," submitted to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Canada, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, and the Commissioner of the Inquiry into Matters Respecting Helicopter Passenger Safety for Workers in the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area.
Bauer, I., W. Bowers, S. Carson, A. V. Carter, K. Daniels, M. Levesque, C. Pike, S. Pottle, T. Randell, and G. Sabau. (2010) "Response to Newfoundland & Labrador Public Discussion Document 'Climate Change: Responding to Climate Change in Newfoundland & Labrador'," submitted to the Office of Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Emissions Trading, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Tanner, A., A. V. Carter, J-P. Ranger, J. Jacobs, M. Rudd, N. Pritchett, P. Trela, S. Pottle, and S. Mills. (2009) "Response to Lower Churchill Hydroelectric Generation Project Environmental Impact Statement," submitted to M. Pineau, Panel Co-Manager, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, and T. Graham, Panel Co-Manager, Lower Churchill Joint Review Panel Secretariat.
