Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Subject "resilience (ecology)"
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Planning for Social Change Towards Sustainability? Investigating Local Government Strategic Sustainability Planning in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-08)This dissertation investigated the condition of local government strategic sustainability planning (SSP) in Canada as well as the contextual underpinnings of prevailing practices. It asked big questions about where we are ... -
Understanding Institutional Change and Resistance to Change Towards Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Framework and Illustrative Application to Provincial-Municipal Aggregates Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)This study develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The research rests on two leading theories of change within the social ...