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Extracting Views About the Environment: Oilfield Workers' Understandings of Climate Issues in Moose Mountain, Saskatchewan
The purpose of this research was to describe oilfield workers in the Moose Mountain Provincial Park area in southeastern Saskatchewan views on climate change. This qualitative study, inspired by Grounded Theory, utilized ... -
Exploring Conflict within Multidisciplinary Teams in the Acute Care Setting from a Nurses Perspective
Canadian healthcare organizations are experiencing increasing challenges meeting the evolving health needs of aging and growing populations. The ability to manage conflict between multiple stakeholders with varying ... -
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing threats posed by mobile money
(Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2019)There has been an increase use of mobile money involving retail users and financial institutions (Scobey-Thal, 2015). In 2015, the GSMA (an organization that represent the interests of mobile operators worldwide) states ... -
Promoting reconciliation through research collaboration between Xaaynangaa Naay and Northern Health Authority: Beginning the dialogue
(Royal Roads University, 2019)This project was supported by the Government of Canada through a SSHRC Connection Grant, and builds on a previous project supported by a CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant. The first project was focused on developing ... -
Digital Meditation Platforms: Searching for "App"iness
Meditation and mindfulness apps are a popular and convenient option for busy meditators to access improved mental health. Millions of people now meditate with a wearable or smartphone app, which suggests that we need to ... -
Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Co-Management in the Yukon
The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the role of Indigenous Knowledge in the context of co-management in the Yukon. The research assessed the extent to which a protected area management plan co-managed by the Yukon ... -
An Analysis of the Role of Moralizing in Conflict Performance and Behavior
In this thesis, I use the Insight approach and autoethnography to examine my own performance in a conflict that occurred during group work. I capture and analyze empirical data and develop theoretical implications about ... -
Forests, livelihoods, and conservation: Broadening the empirical base
(World Development, 2014)More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural smallholders across the developing world may still derive as much income from foraging forests and wildlands as from cultivating crops. ... -
Forest-based livelihoods strategies conditioned by market remoteness and forest proximity in Jharkhand, India
(World Development, 2015)The study uses a novel method to investigate the role of forest proximity, market remoteness, and caste in determining household income, especially forest income, in an underdeveloped region of India. A high (>50%) ... -
Environmental income and rural livelihoods: A global-comparative analysis
(World Development, 2014)This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of environmental income from approximately 8000 households in 24 developing countries collected by research partners in CIFOR’s Poverty Environment Network (PEN). ... -
A response to “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact
(Research Evaluation, 2018)Hansson and Polk (2018, Research Evaluation, 27/2: 132–44) aim to assess the usefulness of the concepts of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact in transdisciplinary ... -
Defining and assessing research quality in a transdisciplinary context
(Research Evaluation, 2016)Research increasingly seeks both to generate knowledge and to contribute to real-world solutions, with strong emphasis on context and social engagement. As boundaries between disciplines are crossed, and as research engages ... -
Crossing the science-policy interface: Lessons from a research project on Brazil nut management in Peru
(Forest Policy and Economics, 2018)There are high expectations for contemporary forestry research, and sustainability research more broadly, to have impact in the form of improved institutions, policy and practice and improved social and environmental ... -
In Search of a Theory for an Age-Welcoming Society: Reconstructing Canadian Millennials’ Expectations on their Aging Journey
Numerous essays and research studies have been conducted with the objective to understand how the aging process is experienced and what social, economic, and political factors influence that process. Critical theorists ... -
Inspiring positive change in the healthcare system through love-led leadership
This inquiry explored the following key research question: How might embracing love-led leadership inspire positive change in the healthcare system in Peterborough and county? The organizational sponsor of this research ... -
Geo-environmental engineering considerations in the investigation of an embankment founded on varved clays : New Liskeard, Ontario
This thesis explores the geotechnical and environmental engineering considerations in an embankment failure as they relate to highway projects founded on soft varved clays. The main objective of this thesis is to shed light ... -
Coastal ocean dynamics and primary productivity near traditional indigenous clam gardens in Fulford Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
Along the Pacific coasts of British Columbia and Alaska, it has recently been recognized that Indigenous communities traditionally built and maintained clam gardens in the intertidal zone by clearing rocks, aerating ... -
Long-term native temperate grassland responses to warming, precipitation and defoliation in Central Alberta
Canada’s northern temperate grasslands are a large and valuable natural resource that provides widespread social, economic and environmental benefits to Canadians. Understanding how grassland vegetation is affected by ... -
Healthcare organizations' twitter communication : an integrative review
This integrative literature review examines how healthcare organizations communicate in Twitter and how they can communicate on Twitter. Twitter provides healthcare organizations with new ways to engage with the public and ... -
Climate change : current and future impacts on erosive rainfall in Calgary, Alberta
Rainfall data collected every five minutes between 1988 and 2017 at the Huntington Hills rainfall gauge in Calgary Alberta and downscaled CanRCM4 climate change data for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 IPCC scenarios are used to ...
