Speaker: Leigh Tesfatsion
Title: Testing Institutional Arrangements via Agent-Based Modeling: A U.S. Electricity Market
Date: Monday, March 22, 2010
Category: Talk
Leigh Tesfatsion of Iowa State University focuses on the potential use of agent-based test beds for the systematic exploration of proposed changes in institutional arrangements in advance of actual implementation. She […]
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Speaker: Mike Stone
Title: A Wildfire Case Study in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Category: Seminar
The Southern Rockies Watershed Project was established shortly after the 2003 Lost Creek wildfire (> 210 km2) to describe both the early magnitude, and subsequent trajectory of recovery of a broad range […]
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Speaker: Victor Galaz
Title: Can Information Technology Really Help Save the Planet?
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Category: Talk
Abrupt climate change, “planetary boundaries” and the failure of international institutions to deal with multiple interacting global crises have gained considerable scientific and political attention over the last years. Few sustainability scientists however, […]
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Speakers: Mark Tovey, Michael Neilsen, and Hassan Masum
Title: Open Source Democracy
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Category: Talk
Mark Tovey, Michael Nielsen, and Hassan Masum explore how new information and communication technologies might allow for new types of political engagement, problem solving, and collective decision-making. They discuss issues such as collective […]
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Speakers: David Robinson, Ivan Filion, and Kirsten Robinson
Title: Revitalizing the Georgian Bay Fisheries: Complicated, Complex, Contested, and Confused
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Category: Seminar
A major restoration project for Georgian Bay calls for re-imagining the ecosystems management strategy and its relationship to the local economy. The problem is complicated, and […]
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Speaker: Thomas Homer-Dixon, Stephen Bocking, and Robert Gibson
Title: Will Ecology Dominate the 21st Century?
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Category: Alternatives Magazine Debate
On Tuesday, January 12, three of Canada’s foremost “ecollectuals” will burn up the podium with a fast-paced discussion that will challenge your eco-ideas and test your eco-vocabulary. […]
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Speaker: J. Doyne Farmer
Title: Laws of Technological Progress
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009
Category: Talk
With the advance of global warming, the predictability of future technological change becomes a pressing and relevant issue. Dr. Doyne Farmer of the Santa Fe Institute compares several different hypotheses for technological improvement using different examples […]
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Speaker: Philip Beesley
Title: Responsive Environments: Transitional Fields
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Philip Beesley of University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture describes field-oriented experimental architecture installations, including the recent Hylozoic Soil and Epithelium series. Drawing from the interactive behaviors of these installations, he discusses the implications of architecture […]
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Speaker: Brad Bass
Title: Revitalizing Central Place Theory: Cities as Experiments on a Dynamic Fitness Landscape
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Category: Talk
Cities are analogous to peaks on a dynamic fitness landscape. Brad Bass of the University of Toronto discusses this concept theoretically and illustrates it using a geographical analysis of […]
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Speaker: Karen Houle
Title: Is our Concept of Moral Responsibility Newtonian?
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Karen Houle of the University of Guelph argues that, while we now recognize the genuine complexity of many issues, we have yet to rethink the basic—and oddly Newtonian—concepts we use to make normative […]
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Speaker: Dawn Parker
Title: Market Activity, Landscaping Behavior, and Carbon Sequestration in Ex-Urban Landscapes
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Category: Talk
Professor Dawn Park of the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo reports on a collaborative research project with the University of Michigan exploring land-use change and carbon sequestration in […]
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