Robin Roth

Dr. Robin Roth is Professor and Chair in Geography, Environment & Geomatics at the University of Guelph's College of Social and Applied Human Sciences. She specializes in political ecology, Indigenous-led conservation, and decolonial approaches to protected areas, with fieldwork in Southeast Asia and North America.

Her research examines conservation governance transformations, particularly through Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) as pathways for reconciliation in Canada. She leads the SSHRC-funded Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnership and Canadian Conservation in Global Context projects.

Current doctoral students include Peter Duker (fish sovereignty), Paulette Fox (Pathway to Target 1), and Emmanuel Tamufor (decolonizing conservation). Roth has published extensively on market-oriented conservation, scale politics, and community mapping methodologies.