Patricia Romero-Lankao

Professor, Department of Sociology at University of Toronto Scarborough

Pati Romero-Lankao is an “interdisciplinary sociologist” by training and has worked with scholars and decision makers at local, national and international scales. She was jointly appointed at the Mansueto Institute and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and has been a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), leading NCAR’s “Urban Futures” initiative. Her research explores the dynamics of urbanization and the systems that shape urban emissions, vulnerabilities and risk. She has also studied why and how particular cities attempt to meet the challenges of reducing emissions while improving their resilience to environmental impacts and designing urban-scale interdisciplinary studies that inform and are informed by global-scale interdisciplinary research.