Speaker: Dr. Derek Robinson
Title: Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: M3-2134
A video recording of the talk can be found below.
Abstract
How humans use land and change what resides on land (e.g., vegetation) can have profound environmental impacts […]
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Fatemeh Jahanmiri is currently completing her PhD in Urban Planning at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker. Given her background in architecture and her interest in nature-inspired design, she followed her research in the field of complexity exploring the origin of fractal patterns in cities.
Supported by WICI, she […]
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Speaker: Dr. Darla Munroe (The Ohio State University)
Title: The interdependence of forest transition pathways at the household level in Yunnan, China
Date: Wednesday, April, 25th, 2012
Category: Seminar
Abstract
Prior research on “forest transitions,” or the observation of sustained forest recovery following past forest clearing, has often employed the concept of […]
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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: 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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