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海角社区

海角社区

Patricia Fitzpatrick

Patricia Fitzpatrick Title: Professor
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: p.fitzpatrick@uwinnipeg.ca

Teaching Areas:
Cultural Geography
Northern Canada
Resource Management Geography

Courses:

GEOG-2419 (3) Sustainability: Resources, Policy and Activism in Canada 
GEOG-3512(3) Human Geography in Northern Canada
GEOG-3419(3) Geography and Environmental Studies and Sciences Internship
GEOG-4450(3) Geographical Perspectives on Environment and Sustainability

Research Interests:
Impact Assessment (Engagement; Multijurisdictional Assessment; Follow-up, Monitoring and Evaluation; and Adaptive Management)
Community Appropriate Sustainable Energy
Governance of mineral development

Publications:

Fitzpatrick, P., Bond, A., & Sinclair, A. J. (2024). Crossing boundaries and jurisdictions – Implications for public participation highlighting Canada and Europe cases. In T. Burdett & A. J. Sinclair (Eds.), Handbook of Public Participation in Impact Assessment (pp. 371-388): Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 

Fitzpatrick, P., & Fast, H. (*) (2024). Opportunities for Meaningful Engagement: A Canadian Perspective on Regulatory Tribunals. In K. Buhmann, A. Fonseca, N. Andrews, & G. Amatulli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (pp. 148-165). DOI: 

Fonseca, C., & Fitzpatrick, P. (2024). The Long and Winding Road to Meaningful Public Participation in Impact Assessment: A Review of Key Issues in the Brazilian and Canadian Federal Assessments. In K. Buhmann, A. Fonseca, N. Andrews, & G. Amatulli (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (pp. 99-120). DOI: 

Morrison-Saunders, A., Arts, J., Nykiel, A., Muir, B., Morgan, R., Fitzpatrick, P., . . . Glasson, J. (2024). Developing international guidance to make impact assessment follow-up happen – reflections on an interactive design process. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 1-12. DOI: 

Leonhardt, R.(*), Noble, B., Poelzer, G., Belcher, K., & Fitzpatrick, P. (2023). Government instruments for community renewable energy in northern and Indigenous communities. Energy Policy, 177, 113560. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113560 DOI:

Fitzpatrick, P., & Williams, J. B. (2022). EIA in Canada: Strengthening follow-up, monitoring and evaluation. In A. Fonseca (Ed.), Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment (pp. 352-365). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Fitzpatrick, P., Diduck, A.P., & Robson, J.P. (2022). Good development should not end with environmental assessment: Adaptive management in northern development. In A. Craft & J. Blakley (Eds.), In our backyard: Keeyask and the legacy of hydroelectric development (351-367) Winnipeg, MB, Canada: University of Manitoba Press. 

Kvern (*), M., Fitzpatrick, P., & Fishback, L. (2022). Empowering Churchill: Exploring energy security in northern Manitoba. Arctic, 75(2), 149-160.  DOI: 

Leonhardt, R.(*), Noble, B., Poelzer, G., Fitzpatrick, P., Belcher, K., & Holdmann, G. (2022). Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy. Energy Research & Social Science, 83, 102350. doi:  

Paynter, F., Pastora Sala, J., Fitzpatrick, P. & Broomfield, S.(*) (2022). Unfinished conversations: Honouring Indigenous relationships and knowledges in IA. Paper presented at the International Association of Impact Assessment, Vancouver, BC.

Fitzpatrick, P., Arlene Kwasniak, and A John Sinclair. (2021) Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action under the Impact Assessment Act. In M. Doelle & A. John Sinclair (Eds.), The Next Generation of Impact Assessment: A Critical Review of the Impact Assessment Act, (pp. 165-193) Toronto: Irwin Law,165-93.

Fitzpatrick, P., & Williams, B. (2020). Building the system: Follow-up, monitoring & adaptive management. Winnipeg, MB: 海角社区 (52 pages)

Robb, K.(*), & Fitzpatrick, P. (2020). Reenvisioning an Energy Strategy for Manitoba: Planning for 2030 and Beyond. Winnipeg, MB: 海角社区 (26 pages)

Fitzpatrick, P. (2019). Efficiency Manitoba 2020/23 Efficiency Plan Submission. A report prepared for the Consumers Association of Canada (Manitoba) and the Winnipeg Harvest. Winnipeg, MB: Public Interest Law Centre (20 pages).

Fast, H., and P. Fitzpatrick. 2017. Modernizing environmental protection in Manitoba: The environmental bill of rights as one component of environmental reform. Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 30(3): 295–320.

Fitzpatrick, P. 2017. . A report prepared for the Consumers Association of Canada (Manitoba) and the Public Interest Law Centre of Legal Aid Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Public Interest Law Centre (63 pages).

Boerchers, M.(*), P. Fitzpatrick, C. Storie, and G. Hostetler. 2016. Reinvention through regreening: Examining environmental change in Sudbury, Ontario. The Extractive Industries and Society 3(3): 793–801 doi: .

Fitzpatrick, P. 2016. Building better federal EA: Submission to the expert panel upon its visit to Winnipeg (pp. 16). Winnipeg, MB: 海角社区 .

Fitzpatrick, P., and A. Nisbet. 2016. Discussion paper: Prepared for the aggregate industry task force: Rural municipality of Springfield (pp. 32). Winnipeg, MB: 海角社区 & the Public Interest Law Centre.

Fitzpatrick, P., H. Fast, G. Desorcy, and B. McGregor. 2016. Reform of the Navigation Protection Act: Strengthening the protection of provincial and federal water resources (pp. 22). Winnipeg, MB: 海角社区 .

Fitzpatrick, P., and A. J. Sinclair. 2016. Multi-jurisdictional environmental assessment in Canada. In K. Hanna (Ed.), Environmental impact assessment: Process and practice 3rd ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press: 182–197.

Wheeler, M. (*), A. J. Sinclair, P. Fitzpatrick, A. P. Diduck, and I. J.  Davidson-Hunt. 2016. Place-based inquiry’s potential for encouraging public participation: Stories from the common ground land in Kenora, Ontario. Society & Natural Resources 29(10): 1–16. doi: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1122130

Fitzpatrick, P., and M. L. McAllister. 2015. Canadian mineral resource development: A resilient and sustainable enterprise? In B. Mitchell (Ed.), Resource and environmental management in Canada: Addressing conflict and uncertainty 5th ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press: 402–424

Fitzpatrick, P. 2015 August. Working at building sustainable relationships: Strengthening follow-up in the Enbridge Line 3 proposed project. A report prepared for the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the Public Interest Law Centre of Legal Aid Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Public Interest Law Centre: 59 pages.

(*) indicates student co-author