Youth engagement in community renewable energy in northern and Indigenous communities: Lessons from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Frog Lake First Nation, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Transitioning from centralized, fossil fuel-based energy systems to decentralized renewable energy is critical for addressing climate change and ensuring energy security. Youth are key actors in the global energy transition, but there is limited understanding of the role of youth as energy citizens in rural and remote communities – especially Indigenous communities. This study examines the role of Indigenous youth in community renewable energy transition, drawing on semi-structured interviews with community members from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and Frog Lake First Nation, Alberta, Canada. Results show that notwithstanding the rise of youth engagement in the international energy space, the role of Indigenous youth participation in community energy transition is limited. Facilitating Indigenous youth engagement in local energy transitions requires intentionality, including formal means and opportunities to engage in energy governance; improved understanding of youths' envisioned social value of energy; addressing many of the enduring social challenges that disproportionately impact Indigenous youth; and integrating Indigenous culture and land-based learning in community energy programs and educational initiatives.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".