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Thursday, February 15, 2024
SPPA's Dr. Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld, along with co-authors Gregory Britten and Boris Worm use "bright spot" analysis to better understand successful governance of fish populations in their newly published paper "Learning from positive deviants in fisheries". The authors suggest that a positive deviant approach, already used in... More
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
SPPA Professor Stephan Schott is part of an interdisciplinary group of researchers at Carleton University who are working to harness the power of chemistry to make northern heating more practical. Excerpts from Carleton Newsroom article by Ty Burke ___ Heating buildings in the far north is a major challenge, and it isn’t just because... More
Monday, January 8, 2024
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we will be sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary: How effective are environmental impact assessment processes in the Global South? Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor... More
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
SPPA's Alexandra Mallett provides analysis on CBC Radio program Blue Sky, episode "Is the world buying Premier Scott Moe's sustainability messaging at COP28?" aired Dec 11, 2023. Listen to interview: Premier Scott Moe is marketing Saskatchewan as sustainable because we have the food, fuel and fertilizer the world needs, but how true are the... More
Monday, December 4, 2023
SPPA's James Meadowcroft and Daniel Rosenbloom (University of Toronto) recently published their paper Governing the net-zero transition: Strategy, policy, and politics in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Volume 120, Issue 47, November 2023. DOI 10.1073/pnas.2207727120). Abstract This paper... More
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
SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett was featured on the Nov 10, 2023 episode of Spark with Nora Young "20th Century tech still powers our 21th Century World" where she discussed what it will take to modernize and secure our aging electrical grid. Listen to episode... More
Thursday, October 26, 2023
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we will be sharing Research Summaries highlighting some of SPPA's broad-ranging research. Below is this month's Research summary. Community Perspectives on Inuit Country Food Insecurity in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut Country food - referring to traditional Inuit food - is deeply enrooted... 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
Monday, July 10, 2023
SPPA faculty member Alexandra Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail about government approach aimed at growing the clean energy economy in the ‘Big Idea’ section of the June 2023 the Report on Business magazine, titled "Money for nothing?". Mallett finds herself thinking about whether the government’s appetite for the blockbuster deal—not... 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, May 3, 2023
SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101097 Highlights Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue. Reform to address... More
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