VIURRSpace
The Libraries of Royal Roads University and Vancouver Island University collaboratively offer VIURRSpace to digitally preserve and showcase selected scholarly and creative works of the universities, together with special collections that represent the unique character of the region.
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NGO program efficacy and outcomes in Eastern Nepal
(2017-06-22)The author is concerned with the question of success and its measurement regarding NGO projects in Nepal and the actual project state versus projected outcomes, and how the impact of evolving conditions and contexts affect ... -
Urban environmental degradation: Causes and solutions [pre-print]
(Nova Science Publishers, 2016)This chapter summarizes the nature of urban environmental degradation, and its ideological and institutional roots. These have to do with the often pro-development orientation of municipal councils, the dependence of ... -
A tale of three universities: Sustainability, from theory to practice
(Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, 2015-03)From 2012 to 2014, we conducted an applied policy analysis of sustainability policy and practice at three universities in British Columbia: University of British Columbia, Royal Roads University, and Vancouver Island ... -
Zhonghua da di tu
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 1922)Map of China. Text in Chinese. -
Images and reality of First Nation women
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2017-06-20)The turn of the twentieth century was a time when it was believed Aboriginal population numbers were rapidly declining. As the prevailing belief in the demise of these people persisted, a belief that continued into the ... -
Creating Gender-Balanced Obituaries
Each generation’s obituaries reflect social views on gender due to how representations of the deceased and the social norms informing those representations are mutually reinforcing. Currently, representations of gender in ... -
Individual and collective relationships with British Columbia's coastal landscape in Roderick Haig-Brown's "On the Highest Hill"
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2017-06-19)My presentation is on individual and collective relationships with BC’s coastal landscape in Roderick Haig-Brown’s novel, "On the Highest Hill". Using the main character, Colin Ensley, I consider how individualism and ... -
From brown to green? Planning for sustainability in the development of Southeast False Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2001-01)Southeast False Creek is an area of largely derelict industrial land close to the downtown core of Vancouver that is currently being planned as a model "sustainable community." The initiative has evolved over the past ... -
Fostering Social Presence on the Virtual Learning Teams in the Master of Arts Programs in the School of Education and Technology at Royal Roads University
Social presence is a key factor in student satisfaction and success in online courses and a marker for whether one has an online learning experience that is engaged, vibrant, and connected, or simply perfunctory. Royal ... -
Changing Curriculum: A Critical Inquiry into the Revision of the British Columbia Science Curriculum For Grades K-9
In 2010 British Columbia’s Ministry of Education started the process of redesigning the provincial school curriculum, Kindergarten to Grade 12. Mandatory implementation of the new curriculum was set for the 2016/17 school ... -
Collaborative Practice in Student Services at Bow Valley College
The objective of this thesis was to explore strategies to enhance collaborative practice within student services at Bow Valley College. This project followed Rowe, Agger-Gupta, Harris, and Graf’s (2013) action research ... -
Implementing Arthur Manuel's vision: Unsettling B.C. and Canada
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2017-06-15)The theme for the 2017 BC Studies conference, "(Un)Settling British Columbia" was influenced by the work of Arthur Manuel and his book "Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call" (2015, written with Grand Chief Ron ... -
Application of weakly ionized plasmas for materials sampling and analysis
(IEEE, 1991-12)The use of weakly ionized plasmas as spectroscopic sources for materials sampling and analysis is reviewed. Plasma sources currently used for this purpose include direct-current and alternating-current plasmas, inductively ... -
Ontario community sustainability report - 2007
(The Pembina Institute, 2007-06)This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected communities across Ontario in recent years. The study employs 33 indicators in three broad categories (smart growth, livability and economic vitality) to ... -
BC sprawl report 2004: Economic vitality and livable communities
(Smart Growth BC, 2004)In 2001, Smart Growth BC undertook a study of sprawl in B.C. and explored some of the linkages between sprawl, quality of life, and infrastructure efficiency in selected communities. This study builds upon the work from ... -
Rainwater harvesting in semi-arid Kenya : Practices and prospects
The aim of this research was to investigate the practices that constrain or facilitate effective rainwater harvesting in semi-arid Kenya. At 647 cubic meters per capita water availability, Kenya is considered water scarce ... -
The politics of Aboriginal title in British Columbia: from the Referendum to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2017-05-04)Over the course of the last decade and a half, we have interrogated key intersections of the political economy of natural resource development and ongoing geographic strategies of colonialism in BC. Studying Gordon Campbell’s ... -
Exceptional CO2 tolerance in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) is associated with protection of maximum cardiac performance during hypercapnia in situ
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)White sturgeon rank among the most CO2-tolerant fish species examined to date. We investigated whether this exceptional CO2 tolerance extended to the heart, an organ generally viewed as acidosis intolerant. Maximum cardiac ... -
Juvenile Atlantic and shortnose sturgeons (family: Acipenseridae) have different hematological responses to acute environmental hypoxia
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)Experiments were conducted to determine the behavioral and physiological responses to acute hypoxic challenges in Atlantic (Acipenser oxyrinchus) and shortnose (Acipenser brevirostrum) sturgeons. We measured the ventilatory ... -
Lab-on-a-chip technology for a non-invasive and real-time visualisation of metabolic activities in larval vertebrates
(SPIE, 2015-06-01)Non-invasive and real-time visualisation of metabolic activities in living small organisms such as zebrafish embryo and larvae has not yet been attempted due to profound analytical limitations of existing technologies. ...
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