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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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