Brenda Parlee

Brenda Parlee was born and raised in northern Ontario, where the landscape and political economy significantly shaped her understanding of social, economic, and environmental issues critical to her research and teaching. She holds a B.A. from the University of Guelph (1995), an M.E.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo (1998), and a PhD in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the University of Manitoba (2005). Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology in the Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences. With over 20 years of experience working in northern Canada, she has engaged in various collaborative and community-based research projects addressing social and ecological changes both domestically and internationally.