Rate My Professor Nathan Pelletier

Nathan Pelletier is an Associate Professor appointed in the Faculty of Science (Biology) at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan. He holds the NSERC/Egg Farmers of Canada Industrial Research Chair in Sustainability and serves as Director of the Bachelor of Sustainability program. Pelletier earned his PhD from Dalhousie University and completed postdoctoral research at Environment Canada and the European Commission Joint Research Centre.

His work is situated in the fields of ecological economics and industrial ecology, with a focus on sustainability measurement and management, life cycle thinking, and environmental and social life cycle assessment of food, feed, and biomass supply chains. Research interests include resource efficiency, social license and market access, trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk, climate change, energy use, reactive nitrogen, food security, and scenario modeling of bio-economy technologies. He contributes to methodological frameworks for supply chain sustainability management and applies these to the Canadian egg industry through the Egg Industry Priority Research for Integrated Sustainability Management (PRISM) initiatives. Pelletier received the 2019 LCA Education Leadership Award from the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment and delivered a TEDx Kelowna talk in 2018 on “The Future of Food and Sustainability.” He teaches courses on sustainable food systems, sustainability measurement and management, and ecological economics.