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Record W4414639552 · doi:10.1007/978-981-96-7933-1_7

Brave the Future: The Road Ahead

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414639552 on OpenAlex
Daniel Hoornweg

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvances in 21st century human settlements · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicGlobal Energy and Sustainability Research
Canadian institutionsOntario Tech University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSustainabilityMindsetCivilityScarcityFlourishingResilience (materials science)Metropolitan areaSocial sustainability

Abstract

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Big things are accomplished together. Civility is the glue that binds humans together into disparate, productive groups. So much of human history is about competing for perceived and genuinely scarce resources. The future is however less about scarcity and more about traveling together within a common goal that supports the flourishing of all. Civility, most often nurtured in cities, is essential to developing a metropolitan mindset that moves past the traditional, zero-sum logic of most politics. Building on this mindset, sustainability can be extended across the globe. Recognizing that environmental, economic, or social degradation anywhere is eventually felt everywhere, this chapter concludes with several recommendations to move Canadian cities along the road toward sustainability. These include developing new approaches to housing; establishing at least five Chief Resilience (Sustainability) Officers; catalyzing a new International Mining and Materials Association; expanding the benefits of post-secondary education; enhancing data management systems; empowering Statistics Canada to provide urban sustainability indicators and data connected to local sustainable development goals; and promoting an international outlook within Canadian cities that benefits everyone.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.796
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it