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BA in Psychology (Concordia University)

MA in Public Policy and Administration (�Ӱ�ԭ�� University)

PhD in Public Policy (�Ӱ�ԭ�� University)

Daniel Rosenbloom’s research program focuses on realizing transition pathways to more sustainable futures. Over the past decade, he has published widely on the policy and political dimensions of transitions to low-carbon and net-zero emissions energy systems. Currently, he is particularly interested in studying and identifying ways to overcome political resistance to net-zero transitions, tracing the evolution of electrification strategies and processes, and developing decision support frameworks that bring near-term choices into dialogue with long-term net-zero outcomes. In conjunction with his ongoing research, Daniel is seeking to deepen linkages among the Canadian community of scholars studying sustainability transitions with the aim of advancing transitions research and practice domestically.

Daniel is also active within the broader international transition community, where he is an elected member of the Steering Group for the (STRN). His work with the STRN seeks to strengthen connections between Canadian and international transition communities as well as enhance efforts to mobilize insights from transition research for policy and practice.

Prior to joining the School of Public Policy and Administration, Daniel held policy leadership roles at Environment and Climate Change Canada. In this capacity, he contributed to a number of climate and clean technology files, translating sustainability transition insights for policy impact.

Ranked in World’s Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University & Elsevier (2021-2025)

Best paper award, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada annual conference – Management History Division (2025)

Best paper award, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada annual conference – Technology and Innovation Management Division (2025)

Award for exceptional commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion at ECCC (2024)

Award for exceptional contributions to “Climate Science 2050: National Priorities for Climate Change Science and Knowledge Report”, ECCC (2023)

Award for exceptional contributions to “Clean Technology and Climate Innovation Strategy”, ECCC (2023)

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-21)

Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University (2019)

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Energy Research & Social Science (2018)

Z.A. Hassan Graduate Scholarship for exceptional research, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University (2017)

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2016-19)

1st place, Ian MacDonald Memorial Essay Competition, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University (2010)

Tantawy, M. M., Foord, D. J. A., & Rosenbloom, D. (2026). The interpretive flexibility of smart grids: Transitions, policy mixes and technology innovation systems in the Canadian Maritimes (2009–2022). Research Policy, 55(4), 105436.

Rosenbloom, D., Meadowcroft, J., Markard, J., Landry, J.-S., & Kabbara, M. (2025). Dead-end pathways: Conceptualizing, assessing, avoiding. PLOS Climate, 4(8), 1–22.

Trencher, G., Duygan, M., Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., & Newell, P. (2025). Decline by design: Assessing decline policies as a decarbonisation strategy under the Paris Agreement. PLOS ONE, 20(10), e0334512.

Rosenbloom, D. (2025). Building momentum for a ‘policy turn’ in sustainability transitions: Lessons from Canada to consolidate strengths and bridge science-policy divides. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 55.

Sovacool, B. K., Geels, F. W., Andersen, A. D., Grubb, M., Jordan, A. J., Kern, F., Kivimaa, P., Lockwood, M., Markard, J., Meadowcroft, J., Meckling, J., Moore, B., Raven, R., Rogge, K. S., Rosenbloom, D., Schmidt, T. S., Schot, J., Sharp, D., Stephenson, J., … Yang, K. (2025). The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research. Energy Research & Social Science, 121, 103948.

Meadowcroft, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2023). Governing the net-zero transition: Strategy, policy, and politics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(47).

Trencher, G., Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., Koppenborg, F., Truong, N., & Temocin, P. (2023). The evolution of “phase-out” as a bridging concept for sustainability: From pollution to climate change. One Earth, 6(7), 854–871.

Rosenbloom, D., & Meadowcroft, J. (2022). Accelerating Pathways to Net Zero: Governance Strategies from Transition Studies and the Transition Accelerator. Current Climate Change Reports, 8(4).

Trencher, G., Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., & Truong, N. (2022). The rise of phase-out as a critical decarbonisation approach: A systematic review. Environmental Research Letters, 17(12).

Rinscheid, A., Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., & Turnheim, B. (2021). From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 41, 27–31.

Markard, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2020). A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and climate. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1).

Markard, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2020). Political conflict and climate policy: The European emissions trading system as a Trojan Horse for the low-carbon transition? Climate Policy, 20(9), Article 9.

Rosenbloom, D. (2020). Breaking Carbon Lock-In through Innovation and Decline (Expert Perspectives: Long-Term Climate Strategies). World Resources Institute.

Rosenbloom, D. (2020). Engaging with multi-system interactions in sustainability transitions: A comment on the transitions research agenda. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 336–340.

Rosenbloom, D., & Markard, J. (2020). A COVID-19 recovery for climate. Science, 368(6490).

Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Geels, F. W., & Fuenfschilling, L. (2020). Reply to van den Bergh and Botzen: A clash of paradigms over the role of carbon pricing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38).

Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Geels, F. W., & Fuenfschilling, L. (2020). Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—And how “sustainability transition policy” can help. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5.

Rosenbloom, D., & Rinscheid, A. (2020). Deliberate decline: An emerging frontier for the study and practice of decarbonization. WIREs Climate Change.

Rosenbloom, D. (2019). A clash of socio-technical systems: Exploring actor interactions around electrification and electricity trade in unfolding low-carbon pathways for Ontario. Energy Research & Social Science, 49, 219–232.

Rosenbloom, D., Meadowcroft, J., & Cashore, B. (2019). Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways. Energy Research & Social Science, 50, 168–178.

Mallett, A., Jegen, M., Philion, X. D., Reiber, R., & Rosenbloom, D. (2018). Smart grid framing through coverage in the Canadian media: Technologies coupled with experiences. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 82, 1952–1960.

Rosenbloom, D. (2018). Framing low-carbon pathways: A discursive analysis of contending storylines surrounding the phase-out of coal-fired power in Ontario. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 27, 129–145.

Rosenbloom, D., Haley, B., & Meadowcroft, J. (2018). Critical choices and the politics of decarbonization pathways: Exploring branching points surrounding low-carbon transitions in Canadian electricity systems. Energy Research & Social Science, 37, 22–36.

Rosenbloom, D., Meadowcroft, J., Sheppard, S., Burch, S., & Williams, S. (2018). Transition experiments: Opening up low-carbon transition pathways for Canada through innovation and learning. Canadian Public Policy, 44(4).

Rosenbloom, D. (2017). Pathways: An emerging concept for the theory and governance of low-carbon transitions. Global Environmental Change, 43, 37–50.

Rosenbloom, D., Berton, H., & Meadowcroft, J. (2016). Framing the sun: A discursive approach to understanding multi-dimensional interactions within socio-technical transitions through the case of solar electricity in Ontario, Canada. Research Policy, 45(6).

Berton, H., Rosenbloom, D., Temby, O., & Meadowcroft, J. (2015). Using local improvement charges to finance solar photovoltaic systems. Energy Studies Review, 22(1).

Rosenbloom, D., & Meadowcroft, J. (2014). Harnessing the sun: Reviewing the potential of solar photovoltaics in Canada. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 40, 488–496.

Rosenbloom, D., & Meadowcroft, J. (2014). The journey towards decarbonization: Exploring socio-technical transitions in the electricity sector in the province of Ontario (1885–2013) and potential low-carbon pathways. Energy Policy, 65, 670–679.

Temby, O., Kapsis, K., Berton, H., Rosenbloom, D., Gibson, G., Athienitis, A., & Meadowcroft, J. (2014). Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: Distributed Energy Development for Urban Sustainability. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 56(6), Article 6.

Rosenbloom, D. (2010). Are Canadian universities taking sustainability seriously? A case study analysis of sustainability initiatives at three Canadian campuses and the lessons decision-makers can learn from these efforts. ISEMA: Perspectives on Innovation, Science and the Environment, 5, 1–24.

Rosenbloom, D., & Meadowcroft, J. (In press). Navigating pathways to net-zero: A multi-factor decision support framework. In Mallett, A., & Merrett, C. (Ed.), Complex Energy Systems in a Changing World: Insights from Sustainable Electricity and Heat Generation. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

Meadowcroft, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2023). Accelerating low-carbon energy transitions. In M. Winfield, S. Hill, & J. Gaede (Eds.), Sustainable energy transitions in Canada (pp. 27–49). UBC Press.

Markard, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2022). Phases of the net-zero energy transition and strategies to achieve it. In K. Araújo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions (p. 22). Routledge.

Rinscheid, A., Trencher, G., & Rosenbloom, D. (2022). Phase-out as a policy approach to address sustainability challenges: A systematic review. In Technologies in decline: Socio-technical approaches to discontinuation and destabilisation (p. 24). Routledge.

Langhelle, O., Meadowcroft, J., & Rosenbloom, D. (2019). Politics and technology: Deploying the state to accelerate socio-technical transitions for sustainability. In J. Meadowcroft, D. Banister, E. Holden, O. Langhelle, & K. Linnerud (Eds.), What Next for Sustainable Development?: Our Common Future at Thirty (pp. 239–259). Edward Elgar Pub.

Rosenbloom, D. & Bernstein, S. (2025). Canada needs net-zero industrial policy to address tariffs—not a short-term resource export boom. The Hill Times.

Rogge, K., Goedeking, N., Hoppmann, J., Lütkehaus, H., Rinscheid, A., Scherrer, A., Rosenbloom, D., & Song, Q. (2025). University of Sussex.

Rosenbloom, D. (2024). ‘. The Conversation.

Rosenbloom, D., (2020). . Expert Perspectives, World Resources Institute, Washington.

Potvin, C., … Rosenbloom, D., (2018). . Sustainable Canada Dialogues.

Rosenbloom, D., Meadowcroft, J. & Cashore, B. (2018). . Smart Prosperity Institute.

Rosenbloom, D. & Meadowcroft, J. (2017). . Sustainable Canada Dialogues.

Rosenbloom, D. (2015). Choices, pathways, and emerging renewables: Exploring the role of new renewable electricity technologies within illustrative pathways for Ontario’s electricity system. In J. DeBardeleben (Ed.), Climate change and renewable energy workshop report. Ottawa: �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.