Publications

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2023

• Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region.

        Jennifer Dobai, Manuel Riemer

2022

• Co-creating cultures of sustainability and co-imagining the teaching green building: the use of a participatory Photovoice process in a HPGB context. Sustain Earth 5, 2 (2022). 

2021

• Understanding the psycho-environmental potential functions of a green building to promote employee health, wellbeing and productivity: A theoretical perspective       

Jillian Zitars ^{a b}, Brittany Spadafore ^{a b}, Simon Coulombe ^{a c d}, Manuel Riemer ^{a b}, Bianca C. Dreyer ^{a b}, Stephanie Whitney ^e

• Fostering Cultures of Sustainability in a Multi-Unit Office Building: A Theory of Change

2020

• Reducing the risks of extreme heat for seniors: Communicating risks and building resilience.

        Eady, A., Dreyer, B. C., Hey, B., Riemer, M., and Wilson, A.

• Motivations, barriers and leverage points: Exploring pathways for energy consumption reduction in Canadian commercial office buildings.

         Whitney, S., Dreyer, B. C., and Riemer, M.

2018

• Beyond Exposure to Outdoor Nature: Exploration of the Benefits of a Green Building’s Indoor Environment on Wellbeing.

         Dreyer, B.C., Coulombe, S., Whitney, S., Riemer, M., and Labbe, D.

• “We can keep the fire burning”: Building action competence through environmental justice education in Uganda and Germany.

         Dittmer, L., Mugagga, F., Metternich, A., Schweizer-Ries, P., Riemer, M.

• Do we have a car for you? Encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles at point of sale. Energy Policy, 100, 79-88.

         Matthews, L., Lynes, J., Riemer, M., Del Matto, T., and Cloet, N.

2016

• The Youth Leading Environmental Change Project: A Mixed-Method Longitudinal Study across Six Countries.

         Riemer, M., Van Voorhees, C.W., Dittmer, Alisat, S., Alam, N., Sayal, R., …

         Schweizer-Ries, P.

2020

Community Psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being (3rd edition).

Riemer, M., Reich, S.M., Evans, S., Nelson, G. and Prilleltensky, I.

2019

Community and Participatory Approaches to the Environment. In: K. O’Doherty & D. Kodgetts (Eds). The SAGE Handbook of Applied Social Psychology. New York: Springer.

Dreyer, B.C. and Riemer, M.

2022

Shifting Mindsets for Managing Complexity: A Municipal Case Study

Authors: Peter Jones, PhD; Manuel Riemer, PhD; Gryphon Theriault-Loubier, MSc; Brittany Spadafore, MA

Sustainability Through an Inclusive Lens (STIL) increasing the accessibility of multi-stream waste disposal systems – A research report¹

Authors: Alicia Bevan, BA; Brittany Spadafore, MA; Manuel Riemer, PhD

2021

The Unique Story of evolv1 in Waterloo Region

Authors: Manuel Riemer, PhD; Kai Reimer-Watts, MCC; Stephanie Whitney, PhD;
& Sherley Leitan-Claymo

Print version

September 2020

Key Consideration: Sustainability Justice in the Context of Municipal Climate Action Planning

Prepared by: Jennifer Dobai, Dr Manuel Riemer and Bianca Dreyer

More Policy briefs and Literature reviews, coming soon.