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Climate Data Practices in Toronto's Municipal Government

2023· dissertation· W7132883632 on OpenAlexaffabout
Cassandra Chanen

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2023
Typedissertation
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSustainability and Climate Change Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoMinistry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClimate governanceClimate changeGovernment (linguistics)Corporate governanceReflexivityThematic analysisClimate justiceDeclarationLocal government
DOInot available

Abstract

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Since the declaration of a climate emergency in 2019, the City of Toronto has placed an increased focus on climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. In the effort to combat climate change, municipal policymakers utilize various forms of data ranging from greenhouse inventories to resident testimonies in order to define targets, monitor progress and communicate results. This project draws on research in environmental justice, data justice and human-computer interactions to explore uses of climate data within the City from a practice-theory perspective and to describe five climate data practices. Reflexive thematic analysis of data collected through interviews with policymakers as well as a document analysis of City reports are used to illustrate four aporias created in the pursuit of data driven climate governance that span these practices. To help overcome these contradictions we propose three alternative strategies for future design and research.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.134
Threshold uncertainty score0.734

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.008
Science and technology studies0.0180.019
Scholarly communication0.0090.002
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.002
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 head0.139
GPT teacher head0.451
Teacher spread0.312 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2023
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