Publications

2025

• Organizational Journeys Toward Strong Cultures of Sustainability: A Qualitative Inquiry. Frontiers in Psychology. Manuel Riemer, Joel Marcus, Kai Riemer-Watts
• 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). Reimer-Watts, K., Abel, E., Coulombe, S. et al. 

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. Dreyer, B. C., Riemer, M., Spadafore, B., Marcus, J., Fernandes, D., Taylor, A., Whitney, S., Geobey, S., Dennett, A.

2020

• Reducing the Risks of Extreme Heat for Seniors: Communicating Risks and Building Resilience. Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: Research, Policy and Practice. 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.

2017

• “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 report. 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

2025

• Community Partnerships for Equitable Local Climate Action: A How-To Guide on Partnership Design and Implementation from the Municipal Net-Zero Action Research Partnership (N-ZAP). Federation of Canadian Municipalities, ICLEI Canada & University of Waterloo. Clarke, A., Samuel, N., Tozer, L., Ordonez-Ponce, E., Meaney, M., Telfer, L., Riemer, M., Dobai, J., Kohli, I. R. K., Anderson, S., Cash, C., Linton, S., Hill, J., Isabu, E. H., Eastwood, M., MacDonald, A., Pinchin, G., Mersereau, R., ElAlfy, A., Talbot, D., Zhou, Y., Kirke, E., & Gross, A.
• Des partenariats communautaires pour une action climatique équitable à l’échelon local: Guide du Partenariat de recherche-action pour la carboneutralité municipale (P-RAC) sur la conception et la mise en œuvre de partenariats. Fédération canadienne des municipalités, ICLEI Canada et Université de Waterloo. Clarke, A., Samuel, N., Tozer, L., Ordonez-Ponce, E., Meaney, M., Telfer, L., Riemer, M., Dobai, J., Kohli, I. R. K., Anderson, S., Cash, C., Linton, S., Hill, J., Isabu, E. H., Eastwood, M., MacDonald, A., Pinchin, G., Mersereau, R., ElAlfy, A., Talbot, D., Zhou, Y., Kirke, E., & Gross, A. 

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