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Dr. Sarah Burch is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Sustainability Governance and Innovation in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Burch has published widely on transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, and innovative strategies for governing sustainability. She is a Coordinating Lead Author in the Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities, and North American coordinator of the Earth System Governance network of Research Fellows. She currently leads a major international research project called Governing and Accelerating Transformative Entrepreneurship (GATE) in partnership with the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions and the University of East Anglia and she directs the Sustainability Policy Research on Urban Transformations (SPROUT) lab at the University of Waterloo. Her most recent book (2014) is entitled ‘Understanding Climate Change: Science, Policy and Practice.’