Clay Dasilva is currently a PhD student in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, having also obtained his Master of Arts there in 2012. His research broadly focuses on the interactions between society, technology and ecology, in particular the governance of innovations that permit the decoupling of economic prosperity from environmental resource-use.
Clay’s Masters work explored the history and governance of energy transitions, especially the interaction of technological and sociological elements during the British Industrial Revolution. The complex mutual influence between technological genesis, diffusion and the sociology of energy-use behaviour, which comprise energy transitions, are always ecologically embedded, and the need for a turn to cleaner energy and resource use this century can take insight from past transformational periods. WICI Occasional Paper no.6 – Exergonic Innovations: The History of Britain’s Coal Exploitation – is adapted from his Master’s thesis on this topic.
Clay has also worked for the Residential Energy Efficiency Project (or REEP House) in Kitchener, a regional not-for-profit NGO dedicated to expediting advanced retrofits in the residential sector, and Sustainable Waterloo Region, which aims to reduce the region’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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