Sarah Burch is a Canadian environmental scientist who is Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo.
Burch studied international relationships and environmental sciences at the University of Calgary.
She worked as an Assistant Professor and coordinated research fellows for the Earth System Governance Project.
By investigating inertia built into urban planning and governance, Burch hopes to understand the origins of carbon-intensive developments.
[1] Burch works as the Director of the Sustainability Policy Research on Urban Transformations (SPROUT) Lab.