WICI Seminar - "Exploring Complex Relationships Between Land Market Activity, Landscaping Behavior, and Carbon Sequestration in Ex-Urban Landscapes" by Dawn Parker

[Catherine Mombourquette]

Greetings,

Please join us for the upcoming seminar by Dawn Parker. The topic of the
seminar is "Exploring Complex Relationships Between Land Market
Activity, Landscaping Behavior, and Carbon Sequestration in Ex-Urban
Landscapes” and it will take place on Thursday, October 1st at 12:00 pm.

Details are below,

Waterloo Applied Complexity and Innovation Seminars
Exploring Complex Relationships Between Land Market Activity,
Landscaping Behavior, and Carbon Sequestration in Ex-Urban Landscapes -
Dawn Parker

Date: Thursday, October 1
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Burgundy Room, University Club, Uniersity of Waterloo
For more information, please visit:
http://www.sig.uwaterloo.ca/WICI_Seminars.html

RSVP: by contacting Catherine Mombourquette at 519.888.4567, ext. 84490
or cmombour at uwaterloo.ca

FREE ADMISSION

The socioeconomic and ecological processes that drive landscape change
exhibit classic signatures of complex systems. Both socioeconomic and
ecological landscape patterns are influenced by path dependence,
neighborhood, and network effects. Alone and in combination, these
complex spatial processes can lead to threshold effects and regime
shifts. This talk reports on an ongoing collaborative research project
with the University of Michigan that explores the complex dynamics of
land-use change and carbon sequestration in ex-urban landscapes in
Southeastern Michigan, with a focus on the landscaping behaviors of
developers and residents and their carbon implications. The aim is to
gain insight into land market dynamics and potential policy and market
mechanisms that could provide critical missing feedbacks between land
management behavior, carbon balance, and land market activity.

The focus of this seminar series is to bring together students and
researchers from across the University of Waterloo who are interested in
understanding the complex processes that will be central to human well
being in the 21st century.

Speaker Profile

Dawn Parker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning at the
University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on the development of
fine-scale models that link the drivers of land-use change and their
socioeconomic and ecological impacts, with completed and ongoing
projects on organic agriculture in California’s Central Valley, timber a
and carbon sequestration in West Virginia, USA, and the effects of
HIV/AIDS on smallholder agricultural households in Uganda. Her areas of
technical expertise include agent-based modeling, environmental and
resource economics, and geographic information systems. Previously, she
was a founding member of the Center for Social Complexity and Department
of Computational Social Science at George Mason University, USA, and
director for their PhD program in computational social science.

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Catherine Mombourquette
Assitant to the Chair
Social Innovation Generation
University of Waterloo
195 King Street West
Suite 202
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 1B1

Work: 519-888-4567 ext. 32525
Fax: 519-578-7168
Mobile: 519-635-9431
cmombour at uwaterloo.ca
www.sig.uwaterloo.ca