Andrea Olive

Olive is a Professor cross-appointed to Political Science and Geography, Geomatics and Environment at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her area of research is Canadian and American environmental policy, especially wildlife conservation. She is the author of 3 books and 3 co-edited collections as well as over 40 articles. She currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant to investigate biodiversity conservation in working (agricultural) landscapes in the Canadian west. She teaches courses on Canadian environmental policy and wildlife policy. She supervises students in Political Science and Geography in her lab Wildlife, Land, and Sustainability.

She will be on research and administrative leave July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 and will not be accepting new MA or PhD students for the Fall 2025 cycle.

Publications 

Olive, Andrea. 2023. Protecting the Prairies: Lorne Scott and the Politics of Conservation. University of Regina Press.

Olive, Andrea, Chance Finegan, and Karen Beazley (co-editors). 2023. Transformative Politics of Nature. University of Toronto Press.

Heppner, Melissa and Andrea Olive. 2024. Technical Note on Bison Conservation and Bison Ranching in Canada. Rangeland Ecology & Management 94(74-77). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.012

Ray, Justina, Jaime Grimm, and Andrea Olive. 2021. “The Biodiversity Crisis in Canada. Failure and Challenges of Federal and Sub-national Strategic and Legal Frameworks.” FACETS 6(1): 1044- 1068. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0075