Mark Seasons
Biographic Data
| ID | 6319763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Seasons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Seasons |
| SIGNATURE | SEASONS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7858-6492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching climate change planning
Preparing planners to effectively engage with climate change poses vexing multi-level challenges for instructors across content, pedagogy, and relationships. There exists an urgent need, and demand, for training and education in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. This bi-national study assesses the current state of climate change planning pedagogy in Canada and the United States. Findings indicate wide variation in the breadth…
The Equity Dimension of Climate Change
The articles in this thematic issue represent a variety of perspectives on the challenges for equity that are attributable to climate change. Contributions explore an emerging and important issue for communities in the Global North and Global South: the implications for urban social equity associated with the impacts caused by climate change. While much is known about the technical, policy, and financial tools and strategies that can be applied t…
The Concept and Measurement of Community Well-Being
Community well-being is considered a fundamental element of planning practice. However, it is not clear whether, and how explicitly, well-being is addressed in community (i.e. towns or cities) strategies or policy documents. If so, is theconcept used implicitly or explicitly? We reviewed policy documents from the 20 largest individual communities in Canada. Our findings suggest considerable difficulty with translation of data on well-being domain…
Plan Evaluation
Plan evaluation is a well-established part of the planning canon. While this subject has received considerable attention from planning scholars in recent years, plan evaluation methods are not commonly used in practice. This paper examines the factors that contribute to the underuse of plan outcome evaluation in local government planning practice. The concept of evaluation is explained, and the relationship that exists between program evaluation …
Evaluation Theory and Practice
This article reviews the major approaches of program evaluation and evaluation in planning. The challenges to evaluating plans and planning are discussed, including the reliance on ex ante evaluations, a lack of outcome evaluation methodologies, the attribution gap, and institutional hurdles. Areas requiring further research are also highlighted, including the need to develop appropriate evaluation methodologies; creating stronger linkages betwee…
Evaluation of planning policy for protecting green infrastructure from loss and degradation due to residential encroachment
Effectiveness of Boundary Structures in Limiting Residential Encroachment into Urban Forests
Urban forests provide essential functions in support of human communities; however, studies indicate adjacent residential land uses degrade urban forests following development. The resulting impacts are known as encroachment. Local Ontario governments rely primarily on passive management, such as boundary structures (e.g. fences) to limit this degradation but do not know whether they are effective for limiting the area of the forest floor covered…
The media, planning and the Oak Ridges Moraine
Monitoring of indicators in local and regional planning practice
Widespread public sector reform and the rapidly changing information economy have provided great impetus for increased monitoring in municipal and regional planning practice. The application of ind
Indicators and core area planning
Reflections on the CES Case Competition
As described by Obrecht, Porteous, and Haddock (1998), the impetus for starting the inter-university Case Competition was the desire to generate student interest for both evaluation and the CES. Getting the Competition off the ground in its first year, however, took the enthusiasm of a part-time lecturer to inspire a colleague in another university. As we will describe, the hardest part is often getting started. Once an instructor and his or her …
Epilogue
Evaluation and Municipal Urban Planning
Recent concerns with performance measurement, efficiency, and effectiveness have sparked a renewed interest in monitoring and evaluation at all levels of government, including municipal government. Much of the literature on evaluation in municipal urban planning focuses on evaluation research methods and techniques. This article explores the state of evaluation practice, including monitoring, in planning departments in municipalities of regional …
Planning Supported Housing
There is a new role for planning in housing for people with serious mental illness. It involves the development of partnerships and protocols between mental health agencies and housing providers. This new role is not concerned with zoning and mitigating not-in-my-backyard responses. Supported housing is the newest and most popular model of housing and support for people with serious mental illness. It involves affordable integrated housing paired…
Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society
Urban Planning as a Multicultural Canon by Michael A. Burayidi Critical Perspectives on Planning in a Multicultural Society Demographic Shifts and the Challenge for Planners: Insights from a Practitioner by Alvin James Tracking the Planning Profession: From Monistic Planning to Holistic Planning for a Multicultural Society by Michael A. Burayidi Neither Embedded Nor Embodied: Critical Pragmatism and Identity Politics by Robert B. Beauregard The P…
Evaluation Theory and Practice
This article reviews the major approaches of program evaluation and evaluation in planning. The challenges to evaluating plans and planning are discussed, including the reliance on ex ante evaluations, a lack of outcome evaluation methodologies, the attribution gap, and institutional hurdles. Areas requiring further research are also highlighted, including the need to develop appropriate evaluation methodologies; creating stronger linkages betwee…
Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society
Urban Planning as a Multicultural Canon by Michael A. Burayidi Critical Perspectives on Planning in a Multicultural Society Demographic Shifts and the Challenge for Planners: Insights from a Practitioner by Alvin James Tracking the Planning Profession: From Monistic Planning to Holistic Planning for a Multicultural Society by Michael A. Burayidi Neither Embedded Nor Embodied: Critical Pragmatism and Identity Politics by Robert B. Beauregard The P…
Evaluation of planning policy for protecting green infrastructure from loss and degradation due to residential encroachment
Planning Supported Housing
There is a new role for planning in housing for people with serious mental illness. It involves the development of partnerships and protocols between mental health agencies and housing providers. This new role is not concerned with zoning and mitigating not-in-my-backyard responses. Supported housing is the newest and most popular model of housing and support for people with serious mental illness. It involves affordable integrated housing paired…
Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society
Urban Planning as a Multicultural Canon by Michael A. Burayidi Critical Perspectives on Planning in a Multicultural Society Demographic Shifts and the Challenge for Planners: Insights from a Practitioner by Alvin James Tracking the Planning Profession: From Monistic Planning to Holistic Planning for a Multicultural Society by Michael A. Burayidi Neither Embedded Nor Embodied: Critical Pragmatism and Identity Politics by Robert B. Beauregard The P…
Epilogue
Evaluation and Municipal Urban Planning
Recent concerns with performance measurement, efficiency, and effectiveness have sparked a renewed interest in monitoring and evaluation at all levels of government, including municipal government. Much of the literature on evaluation in municipal urban planning focuses on evaluation research methods and techniques. This article explores the state of evaluation practice, including monitoring, in planning departments in municipalities of regional …
Planning Supported Housing
There is a new role for planning in housing for people with serious mental illness. It involves the development of partnerships and protocols between mental health agencies and housing providers. This new role is not concerned with zoning and mitigating not-in-my-backyard responses. Supported housing is the newest and most popular model of housing and support for people with serious mental illness. It involves affordable integrated housing paired…
Indicators and core area planning
Reflections on the CES Case Competition
As described by Obrecht, Porteous, and Haddock (1998), the impetus for starting the inter-university Case Competition was the desire to generate student interest for both evaluation and the CES. Getting the Competition off the ground in its first year, however, took the enthusiasm of a part-time lecturer to inspire a colleague in another university. As we will describe, the hardest part is often getting started. Once an instructor and his or her …
Monitoring of indicators in local and regional planning practice
Widespread public sector reform and the rapidly changing information economy have provided great impetus for increased monitoring in municipal and regional planning practice. The application of ind
The media, planning and the Oak Ridges Moraine
Effectiveness of Boundary Structures in Limiting Residential Encroachment into Urban Forests
Urban forests provide essential functions in support of human communities; however, studies indicate adjacent residential land uses degrade urban forests following development. The resulting impacts are known as encroachment. Local Ontario governments rely primarily on passive management, such as boundary structures (e.g. fences) to limit this degradation but do not know whether they are effective for limiting the area of the forest floor covered…
Evaluation of planning policy for protecting green infrastructure from loss and degradation due to residential encroachment
Plan Evaluation
Plan evaluation is a well-established part of the planning canon. While this subject has received considerable attention from planning scholars in recent years, plan evaluation methods are not commonly used in practice. This paper examines the factors that contribute to the underuse of plan outcome evaluation in local government planning practice. The concept of evaluation is explained, and the relationship that exists between program evaluation …
Evaluation Theory and Practice
This article reviews the major approaches of program evaluation and evaluation in planning. The challenges to evaluating plans and planning are discussed, including the reliance on ex ante evaluations, a lack of outcome evaluation methodologies, the attribution gap, and institutional hurdles. Areas requiring further research are also highlighted, including the need to develop appropriate evaluation methodologies; creating stronger linkages betwee…
The Equity Dimension of Climate Change
The articles in this thematic issue represent a variety of perspectives on the challenges for equity that are attributable to climate change. Contributions explore an emerging and important issue for communities in the Global North and Global South: the implications for urban social equity associated with the impacts caused by climate change. While much is known about the technical, policy, and financial tools and strategies that can be applied t…
The Concept and Measurement of Community Well-Being
Community well-being is considered a fundamental element of planning practice. However, it is not clear whether, and how explicitly, well-being is addressed in community (i.e. towns or cities) strategies or policy documents. If so, is theconcept used implicitly or explicitly? We reviewed policy documents from the 20 largest individual communities in Canada. Our findings suggest considerable difficulty with translation of data on well-being domain…
Teaching climate change planning
Preparing planners to effectively engage with climate change poses vexing multi-level challenges for instructors across content, pedagogy, and relationships. There exists an urgent need, and demand, for training and education in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. This bi-national study assesses the current state of climate change planning pedagogy in Canada and the United States. Findings indicate wide variation in the breadth…
Political science (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (5 works)