What is WICI?

The Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation is a research hub that promotes the rigorous transdisciplinary study of innovation within—and the resilient and beneficial transformation of—the complex adaptive systems essential to human well-being.

What’s New?

Dr. Stephen J. Purdey, Affiliate Researcher at WICI, recently published an article titled, “The Normative Root of the Climate Change Problem” in Ethics and the Environment Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue on Climate Change (Fall 2012). Read the abstract and access the article in full here.
 

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See events from this year (2012-2013) here.

Meet our International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC) Members here.

ISAC Member Carl Folke.

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Dr. Tobias Schroeder, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, presents an agent-based model of the likely future adoption of electric cars in Berlin, Germany.

WICI Occasional Paper

Twenty-First Century Snake Oil: Why the United States Should Reject Biofuels as Part of a Rational National Security Energy Strategy
By Captain T.A. ‘Ike’ Kiefer

This paper presents a physical evaluation of key characteristics of liquid transportation fuels, highlighting deficiencies that preclude biomass from becoming a primary energy source and biofuels from replacing petroleum as transportation fuel.

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