RESEARCH

Technical Papers

Polycrisis

Navigating a Fragmenting World Order – Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Risks for Canadian Financial Institutions

Polycrisis program

Christopher Collins
Canadian financial institutions face a fragmenting global order shaped by geopolitical rivalry, economic coercion, trade fragmentation, sanctions and growing conflict risks.
Democracy

Together for Sooke

Scale-up & Acceleration program

Shandell Houlden, Seth Elza
What Sooke residents said about their community, and what could come next, from the “Together for Sooke” community dialogue pilot.
Democracy

Listening Across Difference

Scale-up & Acceleration program

Shandell Houlden, Seth Elza
Lessons for governance, planning, and civic engagement gleaned from the "Together for Sooke" pilot project.
Geothermal

Geothermal Innovation, Intellectual Property, and the Prospects for Canada

Deep Geothermal program

James W. Hinton, Peter Massie, Rachel Wang
An exploration of the IP landscape surrounding geothermal energy.
Polycrisis

AI and Data Centre Risks for Canadian Financial Institutions

Polycrisis program

Christopher Collins
An integrated assessments of how artificial intelligence and the physical infrastructure behind it are reshaping risk for Canadian financial institutions.
Geothermal

Deep Listening: Assessing the social acceptance of geothermal energy

Deep Geothermal program

Katherine Matos Meza and Carlos Gorraez Meraz
The first empirical assessment of public perceptions and social acceptance of ultradeep geothermal energy in Alberta and British Columbia.