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Monday, November 13, 2023
In a new paper, SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and co-authors consider how fostering intellectual humility in conservation decision-making processes might reveal new ways of handling and navigating uncertainties about how best to tackle conservation problems. Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility Environmental Conservation, Vol 50 Issue... More
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and his colleague Professor Stefan Renckens (University of Toronto) published an entry in the Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Their entry discusses the term path dependence, which captures situations where early chance or choice events constrain future options.... More
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SPPA Post Doctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld along with co-authors Megan Bailey, Hekia Bodwitch and Hussain Sinan published "Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna" in Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2023. DOI 10.1111/csp2.12751 Abstract... More
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
By Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Benjamin Faveri Private auditors provide third-party conformity assessments against principles, practices, standards, and legislation. Big names in this field include accounting firms like EY and Deloitte and technical inspection firms like Bureau Veritas and Intertek. These firms already play a significant role in... More
Monday, February 13, 2023
The public discussion about artificial intelligence centres not only on its ubiquity, but also on the lack of governance over its use. A new workshop intends to “bring together experts from government, academia, private industry, and regulatory agencies to inform policy discussions that are ongoing and have lasting effects on the risks AI... More
Thursday, January 5, 2023
SPPA Postdoctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld have published a paper, "Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations," in One Earth that looks at the evolving participation of industry in the annual meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, one of five Regional Fisheries... More
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Has Patagonia defined a new gold standard for business responsibility? By Graeme Auld and Janina Grabs Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made headlines recently with the decision to give his family’s $3 billion company, and its future profits, to the fight against climate change. In his words, “Earth is now the company’s only... More
Thursday, September 15, 2022
For several decades, American private philanthropic foundations have invested extensively in organizations and projects supporting nature conservation and sustainable resource management. In a recently published piece in Conservation Science and Practice, Laurenne Schiller — a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow at SPPA — and co-authors examine the... More
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Major efforts are afoot to govern the ethics of artificial intelligence. In a recent paper, Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Ashley Casovan, and Benjamin Faveri offer a dynamic look at pathways along which private governance is engaged to shape future AI governance. Taking lessons from other private governance cases for sustainability, the pathways... More
Monday, August 29, 2022
Congratulation to SPPA Professor Graeme Auld, recipient of the 2022 FPA Research Excellence Award (Full Professor category). The Faculty of Public Affairs annually recognizes outstanding individuals within its faculty and staff with the presentation of the FPA Excellence Awards. Professor Auld’s work has been recognized for his contributions in... More
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Nine researchers in the Faculty of Public Affairs have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Their projects cover issues of sustainability, health, gender, finance, politics, the military and the law. In addition, two researchers received Partnership Development Grants and four FPA faculty... More
Thursday, June 16, 2022
It was the end of April. Carleton students were winding down from another term, finishing exams and finalizing any outstanding final papers. Well not so for a cohort of 60 students in the Master of Public Policy and Administration. They were just ramping up to take part in a 4-day intensive simulation exercise as... More
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