Publications
Policy Horizons Canada publishes a wide range of reports, discussion papers, and policy briefs on emerging issues in society, economy, environment, governance and technology.
The publications can be browsed by most recent, type or by date.
- Agile Policy on Complex Terrains – Nudge or Nuzzle?
- A Day in the Life of a Policy Designer
- Agricultural and Natural Manufacturing Technology
- Health Technology
- Neurotechnology and Cognitive Technologies
- Digital and Communication Technology
- Nanotechnology and Materials Science
- The Rise of the Otherwise-abled
- Building Familiarity with Federal Foresight Approaches and Tools in the Yukon
- Energy Technology
- The Future is History
- Technology: Governing the Ungovernable?
- Benefits and Challenges of ICTs for Citizens
- Viral Change in Organizations
- Sharing Ideas with Visuals
- Manufacturing Goes Digital with 3D Printing
- Transforming Off-line Commitment to Online Engagement: Year one in Creating a Community of Practice on a Social Media Platform
- Observing the Big Blue Marble: A Policy Lever
- Building Resilience in the Transition to a Digital Economy and a Networked Society
- Driving Policy on a Shifting Terrain: Understanding the Changing Policy Environment Amid 21st-Century Complexity
- Innovation Labs: Bridging Think Tanks and Do Tanks
- The Next Economy: Transformation and Resilience in Times of Rapid Change
- The Emerging Neurotechnologies: Recent Developments and Policy Implications
- Learn and Grow Together: What is a Learning Organization?
- People and Machines: Competitors or Collaborators in the Emerging World of Work?
- Negotiated Governance: Passing the Puck
- Integrating into Canada is just a click away
- A Good Practice Handbook for Managing Regulatory Impact Analyses
- Looking to the Future: How to engage everyone
- A New Horizon for the Public Service: Myth or Reality?
- Policy Levers of the Future
- Policy Start-up in a Skeptical Marketplace
- Public Service Clouds - The Way of the Future
- Reaching Nerdvana at Google
- Leading the Pack or Lagging Behind – Key Findings
- The New Cultural Revolution: Chinese Soft Power at Home and Abroad
- Nudge Me Baby One More Time? The UK and the US move beyond Carrots & Sticks
- Civil Society in the new Century
- You're Not Alone: The Networked Life
- MetaScan 2011: Exploring four global forces shaping our future
- Governing by Wiki: Fast, Flat, and Furious Social Media Foresight Study
- Governing by Wiki: Social Media Foresight Summary
- Leading the Pack or Lagging Behind: A Foresight Study on Environmental Sustainability and Competitiveness
- Re-defining Progress: The Well-being Objective
- Increasing Access to Research Results
- Can we change BEHAVIOUR and meet OBJECTIVES through FUN?
- Location, Location, Location: Putting Evaluation in "Place"
- The Top 10 Questions: A Guide to Evaluating Place-Based Initiatives
- Social Media as a Part of the Solution: Can social media support the social inclusion of youth-at-risk?
- The Heartbeat of On-line Collaboration; "Giving a monkey a scalpel doesn't make him a surgeon"
- Shifting Players in the Aid Game: The Old Boys Club and the New Kids on the Block
- Next Stop: Scanning and Foresight
- Government versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State
- US Multinationals and Canada – Missing in Action, when it comes to Investing in Canada
- What is Well-Being?
- The University as an Agent of Change for Sustainability
- Bringing Place-Based Tools to Policy: Connecting Information, Knowledge, and Decision-Making in the Federal Government
- Living the Wiki Government
- Governing by Wiki: Fast, Flat, and Furious (Brief)
- Economic Strategies as Digital Goods go 3D
- Super Diversity in Canada
- Improving Measurement and Reporting on the Impacts of Federal Science and Technology
- Evaluating Place-Based Approaches: A Window of Opportunity?
- The Evaluation of Place-Based Approaches
- It’s not what you know it’s who you know that counts
- Bridging Policy and Research: Exploring Emerging Opportunities
- Bridging Policy and Research: Exploring Emerging Opportunities
- Does Conventional Economics Provide All the Answers? Contribution of Behavioural Economics to Regulatory and Policy Impact Analysis
- “Times They Are a Changing” Regulatory Foresight and Change Drivers
- Leading the Pack or Lagging Behind (Backgrounder)
- Whose Logo? Sustainable Consumption and Production in North America
- Regulatory Foresight and Change Drivers
- Contribution of Behavioural Economics to Regulatory and Policy Impact Analysis
- Climate Change Adaptation: Linkages with Social Policy
- Improving the Measurement, Reporting and Assessment of Federally Performed Science and Technology
- Talking About Social Innovation
- Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity
- Exploring the Role of the Canadian Government in Integrated Land Management
- Climate Change, Well-being and Human Rights
- The Age of Deconsumerism
- Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Canada’s Agricultural Sector
- Climate Change, Well-being and Human Rights
- “Social Innovation”: What Is It? Who Does It?
- Sustainable Places - Compendium
- Addressing Lifecourse Risks through Social Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for the Community Sector
- canada@150
- Transitions to a Sustainable Future: Opportunities for Transformational Change in Canada
- Strengthening Integrated Water Resource Management in Canada
- Aboriginal Youth in Canada: Emerging Issues, Research Priorities, and Policy Implications
- Economic Valuation of Mortality Risk Reduction: Review and Recommendations for Policy and Regulatory Analysis
- Governance for Sustainable Development: Meeting the Challenge Ahead
- Capacity, Collaboration and Culture: The Future of the Policy Research Function in the Government of Canada
- Integrated Management and Geospatial Information Network for the Environment – Building a Shared Vision
- The Emergence of Cross-Border Regions Between Canada and the United States
- Climate Change Adaptation in the Canadian Energy Sector
- The Science-Policy Interface
- Emerging Adulthood: A New Stage in the Life Course
- From Mosaic to Harmony: Multicultural Canada in the 21st Century
- Poverty and Exclusion
- North American Linkages Navigating Between Scylla and Charybdis
- Social Capital A Useful Tool for Public Policy?
- Population Aging: From Problem to Opportunity
- A New World of Risk?
- Immigration and Social Cohesion
- Canada's Cities
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