Publications

2025

• Operationalizing Accessibility in Environmental Sustainability Efforts: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities

Alicia Bevan, Alexis Buettgen, Manuel Riemer, Brittany Spadafore, Hillary Scanlon, Stephanie Whitney

• Systemic Management Practices—Enabling Local Governments to Adapt in Response to Complexity

        Manuel Riemer, Randy Sa’d, Tim Posselt, Pourya Salehi, David Corbett, Peter Jones,
        Antony Upward, Exmond DeCruz, Bill Baue, Asad Asadzadeh, Simone Sandholz
        and Theo Kötter

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.

• 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.

2025

Dancing Around and Through Harm: Examining Women of Colour's Lived Experiences with Gender-Based Violence in the Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo Latin Dance Community

Authors: Lexi Salt, MA

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

2024

Poverty and Economic Exclusion: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective

Buettgen, A.

Disability Inclusion in the Green Economy: A Scoping Review of Challenges, Barriers and Opportunities

Buettgen, A., Lofts, K., and Tompa, E.

2020

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

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