Kate Ervine

{{Short description|Canadian academic}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}}

'''Kate Ervine''' is a Canadian political scientist and professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

==Education and career== Ervine received her PhD in political science from York University in Toronto. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia,<ref name="smu">{{cite web |author=((SMU)) |author-mask=[SMU] |date=2025 |title=Kate Ervine |url=https://www.smu.ca/researchers/arts/profiles/kate-ervine.html |location=Halifax, N.S. |publisher=Saint Mary's University |access-date=30 October 2025}}</ref> with her research focusing on issues involving environmental governance and climate change policy.<ref name="smu"/>

Her book ''Carbon'', published in 2018 by Polity Press, is a study of the environmental, economic, and social ramifications of the fossil fuels industry.<ref name="nash">{{cite magazine |last=Nash |first=Susan Smith |date=2019 |title=Carbon by Kate Ervine |url=https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/summer/carbon-kate-ervine |magazine=World Literature Today |location=Norman, Oklahoma |volume=93 |issue=3 |publisher=University of Oklahoma |access-date=30 October 2025 |doi=10.1353/wlt.2019.0011}}</ref> She co-created a documentary in 2023 called ''The Carbon Cage'' covering similar themes.<ref>{{cite news |last=Freeman |first=Caleb |date=23 April 2023 |title=Documentary by Saint Mary's University professor reveals the unseen ways we contribute to greenhouse gas emissions—and how we can make a change |url=https://www.saltwire.com/sponsored/documentary-by-saint-marys-university-professor-reveals-the-unseen-ways-we-contribute-to-greenhouse-gas-emissionsand-how-we-can-make-a-change-100845232 |work=PNI Atlantic News |location=Halifax, N.S. |publisher=Postmedia Network |access-date=30 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=((SMU)) |author-mask=[SMU] |date=23 May 2023 |title=Documentary by Dr. Kate Ervine reveals the unseen ways we contribute to greenhouse gas emissions |url=https://news.smu.ca/news/2023/5/23/dr-kate-ervine-carbon-cage-documentary |location=Halifax, N.S. |publisher=Saint Mary's University |access-date=30 October 2025}}</ref>

==Books== * {{cite book |last=Ervine |first=Kate |date=2018 |title=Carbon |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Polity Press |isbn=978-1-5095-0111-3}}<ref name="nash"/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Hadden |first=Jennifer |date=1 May 2020 |title=Why Are Fossil Fuels So Entrenched? |journal=Global Environmental Politics |volume=20 |issue=2 |publisher=MIT Press |pages=157-161 |doi=10.1162/glep_a_00550}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * {{cite AV media |author=((CBC)) |author-mask=[CBC] |date=30 April 2025 |title=This is Nova Scotia: After The Carbon Tax |url=https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1739-this-is-nova-scotia/episode/16143235-after-the-carbon-tax |work=CBC Podcasts |location=Nova Scotia |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=30 October 2025}} * {{cite news |last1=MacLean |first1=Colin |last2=Fairclough |first2=Ian |last3=Johnson |first3=Kathy |last4=Roberts |first4=Stephen |date=19 April 2019 |title=What's the price? Tallying the hidden costs of climate change to Atlantic Canada |url=https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/whats-the-price-tallying-the-hidden-costs-of-climate-change-to-atlantic-canada-303257 |work=The Chronicle Herald |location=Halifax, N.S. |publisher=SaltWire Network |access-date=30 October 2025}}

==External links== * [https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/kate-ervine/ Kate Ervine] at ''Scientific American''

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