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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 ... -
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 ... -
The meat of the matter : using social marketing to influence red meat purchase behaviour
The production and consumption of red meat presents a significant threat to environmental health and sustainability at a global scale. This study evaluates community-based social marketing tools as a means of reducing red ... -
Identifying solutions for brownfield redevelopment of former landfill sites in the city of Delta, Metropolitan Vancouver
In Canada, planners and policy makers are continuously seeking ways to improve the quality of life in urban areas, including the redevelopment of brownfield sites such as former landfills. The City of Delta, Metropolitan ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of collaboration in British Columbia environmental assessments within the mining sector
An effective Environmental Assessment (EA) process in British Columbia (BC) is desirable for many reasons, though perhaps most importantly it can help ensure industrial development is conducted in an environmentally ... -
Nature buddies : students leading students in a nature inquiry
This case study explores how a weekly, interdisciplinary, school-based Nature Buddies program influences grade seven students’ ideas about leadership, kindergarten students’ response to place- based learning and teachers’ ... -
‘BRRAAPPPING’ In the North – daily avalanche bulletins, BC mountain snowmobilers and avalanche skill training uptake
British Columbia is a rewarding region for winter backcountry travel. Studies acknowledge that compared to backcountry skiers, relatively little is known about snowmobilers as a user group, or their attitudes toward avalanche ... -
Contaminant exposure history of yellowknife bay fish : a story of slimy sculpin, burbot, and lake whitefish from otolith microchemistry analysis
The thesis examined the otolith microchemistry of slimy sculpin, burbot, and lake whitefish from Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, in relation to the Giant Mine Remediation Project. Trace elements analyzed included ... -
Mapping bioregional place attachment in the Battle River Watershed
The Make your Map project engaged volunteer participants to artistically identify special places in the Battle River watershed, and describe the values and experiences that make those locations significant. This research ... -
Bud to blossom : an intuitive, auto-phenomenological inquiry into maturation and transformation through vision fasting
This thesis examines the effect of a vision fast experience on worldview from an auto-phenomenological perspective. Using an intuitive inquiry methodology, the study is conducted through five iterative cycles of hermeneutic ... -
Low-impact development : citizen chronicles from the urban underground
The participants in this study were property owners who volunteered for involvement in a residential low-impact development (LID) initiative located in Toronto, Canada. The LID entailed the installation of rain gardens for ... -
Measuring suppression : quantifying reductions in burn probability from initial attack
Rapid suppression, or initial attack (IA), is the primary method of managing new fires, with relatively low costs and high containment rates. Factors contributing to containment are well understood, but consequences for ... -
Estimation of methane potential in household food waste in the Capital Regional District
As a basis for discussing the feasibility of anaerobic digestion (AD) technology in the Capital Regional District (CRD), this research evaluated the annual methane potential in household food waste (HFW) in the CRD while ... -
Sense of place in the city : using photo voice to uncover meaningful places by newcomers of ethnic minority
This study used photo voice to enlist Bangladeshi participants in identifying places that are meaningful to them as newcomer ethnic minorities in the City of Toronto. Four themes—First Experiences, Belongingness, Diversity, ... -
Inuvialuktun words for a changing climate
I conducted a qualitative research study using collaborative storytelling and conversation, Indigenous Research Methodology and Grounded Theory, through the lens of decolonization and reconciliation, to answer the question: ... -
A study of ecosystem services that draw users to Tombstone Territorial Park and a review of potential conflict areas
This study is an evaluation of the ecosystem services (ES) in Yukon's Tombstone Territorial Park (TTP), the spatial distribution of those ES and the location of potential user conflict areas within the park. Cultural ... -
Teachers' perceptions and experiences of live dives in the classroom
Interviews were conducted with eight middle school teachers who participated, along with their students, in live-streamed scuba dives, known as “live dives”. Teachers ranked student engagement as their most important ... -
Social Mobilization for Climate Action
This research addressed the need for society to collectively mobilize citizens to respond to climate change, a body of research referred to as social mobilization for climate action. I explored the practical applications ...
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