A recent publication, co-authored by Dawn Parker of the Environment’s School of Planning and Waterloo’s Institute for Complexity and Innovation, reveals 10 facts that help explain the fundamental challenges of achieving sustainability in land use, and point toward solutions.
What a milestone achievement for Madeline Schizas, a student of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Environment, Waterloo! She competed at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics recording a personal best of 69.60 points in the women’s short program portion.
At Environment, it’s part of our mission to create a gender-equal community that is inclusive and celebrates women’s achievements. We believe it’s critical to our sustainable future.
New academic programming and novel research is leading the way in innovative thinking about the future of cities – both large and small, in Canada and around the globe.
Linda Mortsch, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change member, adjunct professor with the Faculty of Environment, and retired Senior Researcher with Environment and Climate Change Canada, is the lead author for the North American chapter. She discusses the chapter’s findings.
Luna Khirfan, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change member and Associate Professor at the School of Planning, discusses the report’s findings and her research on Chapter 6: Cities, settlements, and key infrastructure.
As we come to the end of Black History Month (BHM) celebration, Tracelyn Cornelius, Sustainability Management graduate scholar in the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED) shares her experience and thoughts on anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion implementation, program design and best practices.
Researchers have found the recent success of Canadian cannabis tourism has both normalized a formerly “deviant” leisure activity and opened the door to other potentially lucrative forms of cannabis-related tourism, such as complete growing, consuming and experiencing tours.
Team of four Waterloo undergraduate students have won the total prize of $11,500 in the 8th edition of the annual Ryerson Real Estate Expand Your Empire (EYE) 2022 case competition. The team took home the First Place Grand Prize of $10,000 and the Most Feasible Design award of $1,500 in the competition.
Flooding has pushed down housing prices in communities across Canada. New findings show that over the past eight years, catastrophic flooding in communities resulted in an average 8.2 per cent reduction in the final sale price of houses, 44.3 per cent reduction in the number of houses listed for sale, and 19.8 per cent more days on the market to sell a house.