ISEMA: Perspectives on Innovation, Science & Environment is a student-organized, annually published academic journal showcasing some of the best and brightest young minds studying sustainability at Carleton’s School of Public Policy & Administration.
ISEMA connects students, graduates, faculty and staff around some of the most exciting and innovative sustainability policy research in Canada today.
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Featured Articles: The Role of the Electricity Sector in Reaching Net-Zero: A National Phase-out Strategy for Natural Gas (Amber Couse)
Reevaluating Algonquin Provincial Park’s Strategic Objectives: A Multi-Objective Analysis (Brendan Kahler)
Addressing CO2 Emissions in the Aviation Industry: Promoting the Uptake of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (Heidi Hebb)
The Lagging Strand of Genetic Protections: Current Challenges in Genetic Testing in Canada (Gabby Noble)
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Articles in this Volume
Promoting Renewable Energy in a Fact-Free Context: An Exploration of Framing Strategies for the Acceleration of Energy Transition in Canada — 1
Protecting the Smart Grid: The Success of Designing and Implementing the Ontario Cyber Security Framework — 33
Overcoming Barriers for Adoption of Water Efficient Urban Agriculture: Exploring Policy Options in Water Stressed Regions — 68
The Importance of Governance Structures in Protected Area Management: A Comparative Analysis Between Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Park — 102
Articles in this Volume
Hope is Not a Strategy: Navigating a Course to Deep Decarbonization in Canada — 1
A Strong Foundation: Reducing GHGs Through Building Policy — 43
Flying into Turbulence: How Governments can Support Decarbonization Pathways in the Aviation Sector — 69
Sending Mixed Signals: Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation, 5G Networks and the Precautionary Principle — 104
Articles in this Volume
A National Paradox: Canada’s Conflicting Reality Surrounding Increased Oil Sands Production and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions — 1
Power and Politics: A Multi-Level Perspective on Indigenous Participation in the Evolution of Ontario’s Electricity System — 25
Reimagining International Climate Change Policy: Lessons Learned from the Montreal Protocol — 60
Uncharted Waters: Strengthening the role of Indigenous Knowledge in Decision-making under Canada’s Fisheries Act — 86
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From Green to Clean—to Toxic: The role of policy networks and problem definition in the modernization of a binational agreement to protect the world’s largest freshwater system — 1
Authority, Legitimacy and Responsibility: Two Exceptional Redesign Processes in the National Energy Board from 2012-2017 — 17
Mitigating Climate Change Through Technological Innovation: Examining the Role of Government in Promoting Clean Technology Investment in Canada — 35
Connecting Bottom-up and Top-Down Renewable Energy Transitions: The Role of Direct Action in International Policy Forums — 56
Creating a New Climate: Understanding the Liberal Government’s Approach to Canadian Climate Policy — 83
Articles in this Volume
A “Just Transition” from Coal: Analyzing Sustainable Labour Transition Policies in Ontario’s Coal Phase Out — 6
Quebec Hydropower’s Competitiveness Under the Current Electricity Market Structure in New England — 26
Carbon Crowdfunding: An Analysis of Voluntary Carbon Offsets at Gasoline Stations as a Tool for Supporting Local Urban Sustainability Initiatives — 54
A Sociological Approach to Climate Change: Incorporating Social Dimensions into Climate Change Communication — 75
Managing Canada’s Boreal Forest: Balancing Conservation and Extractive Industry in a Changing Climate — 96
Articles in this Volume
Rethinking Peaksaver: Direct Load Management in Ontario — 2
Afforestation as a Form of Carbon Sequestration: Economic and Environmental Demands — 22
Bigger is Better: Densification as a Climate Change Mitigation Tool — 40
Tilting at Windmills: A Study of the Variance in Wind Power Capacity Across Canadian Jurisdictions — 760
Narrowing the Infrastructure Gap: Green Bonds in Ontario — 82
Articles in this Volume
Technological Change in the Livestock Sector: The Environmental and Ethical Dimensions of In Vitro Meat — 1
The Nuclear Mirage: Why a Third Nuclear Renaissance is Not Taking Place — 21
Environmental Liability or Economic Necessity: Shifting Problem Definitions in the Alberta Oil Sands Debate — 35
Deforestation and the Environmental Kuznets Curve — 53
Managing Metrolinx: Addressing the Challenges on the Road Ahead — 69
Taking Down the Fences: Understanding and Overcoming Obstacles to Urban Food Production in Canada, A Comparative Case Study — 103
Articles in this Volume
Learning from Experience: Lessons from a Quarter-century of Sustainable Development — 1
Talk Risky to Me: Communication as a Policy Bridge Between Assessment and Perception of Toxic Risks — 23
The Curious Case of Bisphenol-A: A “Policy Windows” Analysis of Canada’s Bottle Ban — 45
Mitigating Short Lived Climate Forcers in Canada: Black Spot or Golden Opportunity — 71
The Technology, Politics and Policy of Enhanced Geothermal Electricity in Canada: Applying an Energy Systems Approach — 89
Articles in this Volume
Removing the Untold Billions: Barriers to Canadian Fossil Fuel Subsidies — 1
The Current and Future Challenges to the Ontario Green Energy Act: How Can Ontario ‘Keep FiT and Have Fun?’ — 21
Warm Weather Suits: Litigation as a Catalyst for Advances in Climate Change — 41
Civil Society and Watershed Management: A Participatory and Inclusive Approach for Place-Based Governance — 57
Strategy Derailed? The Strategic (Mis)Management of Public Transit in Toronto — 75
Urban Agriculture and its Potential for Water Management: A Case Study in the City of Ottawa — 93
Articles in this Volume
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 those Efforts — 1
Getting Ottawa on Track: An Analysis of Two Light Rail Transit Projects — 25
Mandating Green: Why Canada is Lagging Behind Europe in the Widespread Application of Sustainable Building Technology — 41
The Coyote Dilemma: A Policy Discussion of Human-Coyote Conflicts and Conflict Management in Ontario — 59
Sustainable Food Production: Transforming from Industrial to Local — 77
Articles in this Volume
The European Union’s CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme and Insights for North America — 1
The Necropolis and the Metropolis: Sustainability Issues in Funerary and Memorial Services — 15
Canada’s 2007 Isotope Crisis: Examining the Dimensions of Trust in Nuclear Risk Management — 35
High Speed Rail Fail: How Complacency for Incremental Innovation may Derail TGV Passenger Trains for Canada — 51
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Implementing the Federal Sustainable Development Act: A Discussion Paper — 71
Articles in this Volume
The Intersection of Science and Public Policy: A Case Study of Chemicals Management in Canada — 1
Is Historical Use and Occupancy History? Exploring Canada’s claims to Sovereignty over the Arctic Archipelago — 30
Do No Harm: Hospitals, Health and the Environment — 41
Interprovincial Relations and Climate Change Policy in Canada — 56
Environmental Governance in Canada: An Examination of the Role of Regulation and the Implementation and Enforcement of CEPA 1999 — 72
Articles in this Volume
Position Paper in Support of a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy — 1
Nowhere to Sprawl: The Greater Golden Horseshoe’s Ongoing Experiment with Smart Growth — 19
Coping with Intergenerational Equity in Forestry Management: The Case for Declining Discount Rates — 35
Managing Biodiversity in Temperate Rainforests within Canada — 56
The Great Lakes Basin and Water Diversions: Annex 2001 and Beyond — 75
Articles in this Volume
Climate Change Skeptics — 1
Canadian Stem Cell Policy: Opportunities and Ethical Issues — 18
Sustainable Housing: An Ottawa Perspective — 38
The Assessment and Management of Substances in Canada — 57
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