Idowu Ajibade

Idowu Ajibade is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a joint program of University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. Her teaching and research program examines the interrelationship between urbanization, global environmental change, social justice and sustainability transition through a geographic lens. Her current research focuses on climate extremes and political ecology of adaptation in the context of eco-industrialization, globalization and uneven development. Specifically, she interrogates and evaluates both conventional as well as alternative approaches to adaptation and provide some direction on why the articulation of multiple and alternative trajectories of future socio-ecological and socio-economic relationships are necessary in bringing about transformation of the current unsustainable global system. She argues that there is a need for critical engagement with diverse knowledge systems, modes of politics, ethics, leadership strategies, and socio-cultural norms in facilitating transformation. Idowu values interdisciplinary scholarship and employs this approach in understanding the opportunities and barriers presented by climate change and on-going sustainability transitions in megacities of the global south. While most of her work to date has been in Lagos, Manilla and Bangkok, she is also interested in the human-environment challenges in the United States.

Joined 2016

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