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Alexander Cimprich, Steven B. Young.  July 2023.  Environmental footprinting of hospitals: Organizational life cycle assessment of a Canadian hospital.  Journal of Industrial Ecology  

Jonathan Raikes, Daniel Henstra, Jason Thistlethwaite. July 2023.  Public Attitudes Toward Policy Instruments for Flood Risk Management.  Environmental Management

Sadaf Mollaei, Leia M. Minaker, Jennifer K. LynesGoretty M. Dias.  June 2023. Perceptions and determinants of adopting sustainable eating behaviours among university students in Canada: a qualitative study using focus group discussions.  International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 

Francisco Martin del Campo, Simron Singh, Tomer Fishman, Michael Drescher.  June 2023. The Bahamas at risk Material stocks, sea-level rise, and the implications for development.  Journal of Industrial Ecology

Ankesh Siddhantakar, Jair Santillan Saldivar, Thomas Kippes, Steven B. Young.  June 2023.  Helium resource global supply and demand: Geopolitical supply risk analysis.  

Larry Swatuk, David R. Black.  May 2023.  Editors’ introduction: The complexities of worlding international relations: perspectives from the margins.  International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis 

Yi-Shuai Re, SabriBoubaker, Pei-Zhi Liu, Olaf Weber.  May 2023.  How does carbon regulatory policy affect debt financing costs? Empirical evidence from China.  The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 

Adeboye Oyegunle, Olaf WeberAmr Elalfy.  April 2023.  Carbon Costs and Credit Risk in a Resource-Based Economy: Carbon Cost Impact on the Z-Score of Canadian TSX 260 Companies.  Journal of Management and Sustainability 

Jeffrey Wilson, Céofride Gaudet, Anders Hayden.  April 2023.  Towards Sustainable Wellbeing: Moving beyond GDP in Canada and the World.   

Dr. Neil Craik, law professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and Waterloo Climate Interventions Strategies Lab member, is part of a growing area of research critically assessing the impacts and governance challenges of large-scale climate interventions in the world’s oceans. Recently, he was part of a team of experts assembled by the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative that were tasked with assessing and recommending paths on how to tackle this emerging challenge. Their new paper, Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions, which appears in the journal Science, explores the environmental risks of climate interventions, the current ocean governance challenges and what needs to be done to address them.

Originally posted on Waterloo News

During the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on 7 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland, Prof Barbara Mikolajczyk of the University of Silesia and University of Waterloo SEED Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, chaired the international law symposium Advancing Law & Governance Contributions to Climate Action under the Paris Agreement.

INDEV major Alex Foto will travel to Recife, Brazil in May with World Vision to advocate for the rights of youth around the world and participate in the “World Vision Cup” soccer tournament.

Read the full story in The Londoner

This morning on CBC radio 89.1 in Kitchener Waterloo Professor Blair Feltmate discussed climate adaptation and the current government's opportunity to take four practical steps to address adaptation challenges.

Listen to the clip on CBC's Morning Edition

Rasna Sherchan, a Master of Environment and Business student, was recently invited to present her independent research work at the Symposium on Sustainability & Human Rights hosted by Fulbright Canada and Concordia University in Montreal. 

About 50 people from the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development rubbed elbows at a Meet-and-Greet held on campus recently.  It was a rare chance for students, faculty and staff from across the department to leave their roles behind and get to know each other on a more personal level. 

SEED Student Profile: Kevin Rotsaert

Students at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development are both enterprising and empathetic, qualities we like to encourage here. Whether the class is about social entrepreneurship or ecological economics, the lesson at the end is that success can't be measured in dollars.

A team of students from SEED's Environment and Business program has joined efforts with musician Jack Johnson to research and further develop All At Once, Johnson’s community-based, social action network.

Local Economic Development alum Konstantinos Karanasios was recently awarded with an Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship, valued at $25,000. The award provides financial assistance for him to work on the EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative II project "Development of a utility grade controller for remote microgrids with high penetration renewable energy generation".