Journal Articles
2024
Lukkarinen, J. P., Das, R. R., Laakso, S., & Martiskainen, M. (2024). Using energy vulnerability framework to understand household agency in sustainability transitions: Experiences from Canada and Finland. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
2024
Riva, M., Laurianne Debanné, Kutuka, S., Morgen Bertheussen, O’Sullivan, K. C., & Das, R. R. (2024). Energy poverty and well-being at the local level: Insights from a community-wide survey in Atlantic Canada. Energy Research & Social Science.
2024
Shabnam Edalatnia, & Das, R. R. (2024). Building benchmarking and energy performance: Analysis of social and affordable housing in British Columbia, Canada. Energy and Buildings.
2024
Wyse, S. M., & Das, R. R. (2024). Energy democracy: Reclaiming a unique agenda in energy transitions research. Energy Research & Social Science.
2023
Benson, M., Boda, C., Das, R. R., King, L. A., & Park, C. (2023). Illuminating practitioner challenges in energy transitions. Heliyon.
2023
Agnello, K., Viswanathan, L., Das, R. R., & King, L. A. (2023). Transforming precedent: a systematic review methodology for informed planning decisions. Journal of Planning Education and Research.
2023
Lukkarinen, J. P., Das, R. R., Laakso, S., & Martiskainen, M. (2023). Using vulnerability framework to diversify understanding on household agency: experiences from Canada and Finland. Social Science Research Network.
2023
Riva, M., Kingunza Makasi, S., O’Sullivan, K. C., Das, R. R., Dufresne, P., Kaiser, D., & Breau, S. (2023). Energy poverty: an overlooked determinant of health and climate resilience in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health.
2022
Benson, M., Boda, C., Das, R. R., King, L., & Park, C. (2022). Sustainable development and Canada’s transitioning energy systems. Sustainability.
2022
Das, R. R., Martiskainen, M., Bertrand, L. M., & MacArthur, J. L. (2022). A review and analysis of initiatives addressing energy poverty and vulnerability in Ontario, Canada. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
2022
Das, R. R., Martiskainen, M., & Li, G. (2022). Quantifying the prevalence of energy poverty across Canada: estimating domestic energy burden using an expenditures approach. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien.
2022
Das, R. R., & Richman, R. (2022). The development and application of a public energy literacy instrument. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
2022
Hoicka, C. E., Zhao, Y., McMaster, M.-L., & Das, R. R. (2022). Diffusion of demand-side low-carbon innovations and socio-technical energy system change. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.
2020
Hoicka, C. E., & Das, R. (2020). Ambitious deep energy retrofits of buildings to accelerate the 1.5°C energy transition in Canada. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien.
2021
Hoicka, C. E., Das, R., Zhao, Y., McMaster, M.-L., Lieu, J., & Wyse, S. (2021). Methodology to identify demand-side low-carbon innovations and their potential impact on socio-technical energy systems. MethodsX.
2021
Wyse, S. M., Das, R., Hoicka, C. E., Zhao, Y., & McMaster, M.-L. (2021). Investigating energy justice in demand-side low-carbon innovations in Ontario. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.
2020
MacArthur, J. L., Hoicka, C. E., Castleden, H., Das, R., & Lieu, J. (2020). Canada’s Green New Deal: Forging the socio-political foundations of climate resilient infrastructure? Energy Research & Social Science.
2018
Das, R., & Martiskaïnen, M. (2018). Energy deprivation in everyday living: Estimating, profiling, and escaping energy poverty in Canada. SPRU-Science Policy Research Unit Current Projects.
2018
Das, R., Richman, R., & Brown, C. (2018). Demographic determinants of Canada’s households’ adoption of energy efficiency measures: observations from the Households and Environment Survey, 2013. Energy Efficiency.
2016
Brown, C., Shaker, R. R., & Das, R. (2016). A review of approaches for monitoring and evaluation of urban climate resilience initiatives. Environment, Development and Sustainability.
2010
Das, R., LeFevre, J.-A., & Penner-Wilger, M. (2010). Negative numbers in simple arithmetic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Book Chapter
2022
MacArthur, J., Hoicka , C. E., & Das, R. R. (2022). Democratizing the Green New Deal. In K. Tienhaara & J. Robinson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on the Green New Deal. Taylor & Francis.
Reports
2022
Das, R., & Martiskainen, M. (2022). Keeping the Lights On Ensuring energy affordability, equity, and access in the transition to clean electricity in Canada Keeping the Lights On: Ensuring energy affordability, equity, and access in the transition to clean electricity in Canada. David Suzuki Foundation.
2022
Fann, P., Das, R., Drehobl, A.; Green, S., Harris, G., Lee,M., Russo, S.; Schwartz, S., & Tillman, G., (2022). “Recognition Equity – Principles, Metrics, Qualitative Approaches and Best Practices.” In Energy Equity Project Report. University of Michigan.
2021
Das, R., & Humble, R. (2021). Enhancing building performance in community housing : year one research journey. Community Housing Canada.
2021
Hoicka, C. E., Das, R., McMaster, M. L., Zhao, Y., Wyse, S., & Lieu, J. (2021). Diffusion of multiple demand-side low-carbon innovations in a 1.5°C energy transition. Smart Prosperity Institute.
2021
Zhao, Y., Hoicka, C., Mcmaster, M.-L., & Das, R. (2021). Modelling demand-side low-carbon innovations and their potential to impact on socio-technical energy systems. Final Report for the Energy Modelling Initiative--Initiative de modélisation énergétique.
Research & consulting
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What's new?
New research publication led by Prof. Riva (McGill) "Energy poverty: an overlooked determinant of health and climate resilience in Canada", where we explore, for the first time in the Canadian context, the association between energy poverty and health.
