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[Pre-print] The importance of nature to city living during the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations and goals from environmental psychology
(Routledge, 2020-07-30)The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an opportunity for urban planners, government decision-makers, health practitioners, and environmental psychologists to further understand human psychosocial wellbeing in cities. Given ... -
[Pre-print] Sex- and context-specific associations between personality and a measure of fitness but no link with life history traits
(Elsevier, 2020-07-23)The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis posits that personality traits (i.e. consistent individual differences in behaviour) are linked to life history and fitness. Specifically, fast-paced individuals are predicted to be ... -
Why are you thriving when I'm barely surviving?: An exploration of personal resiliency factors that enable novice nurses to thrive
(Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, 2020-06-30)Despite exposure to similar workplace stressors, some novice nurses manage to thrive while others experience high levels of emotional exhaustion and burnout. This qualitative research study of eight novice ... -
Creating a Selective Web Archive of Central and North Vancouver Island Community Information during COVID-19: VIU Special Call for Proposals related to COVID-19 [Abstract of Proposal]
(2020-06-03)Describes and offers context for a proposed project to curate a web archive related to COVID-19 impacts for Central and North Vancouver Island. -
The intersection and divergence of new urbanism and environmental psychology: An exploration
(Frontiers, 2020-05-12)Using the limited literature comparing the findings of New Urbanism and environmental psychology as to the desirable characteristics of neighborhoods and resident satisfaction, and with a focus on an urban inner-city ... -
[Pre-print] Direct analysis of naphthenic acids in constructed wetland samples by condensed phase membrane introduction mass spectrometry
(Elsevier, 2020-05-10)The application of direct mass spectrometry techniques to the analysis of complex samples has a number of advantages including reduced sample handling, higher sample throughput, in situ process monitoring, and the potential ... -
Microtransit in microcommunities: A community bus feasibility study for Quadra Island using success indicators from the Gulf Islands
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04)The community of Quadra Island, located off the east coast of Vancouver Island, does not have a public transportation option available to all. Several other island communities, including some in the Southern Gulf Islands ... -
Hearthless: A philosophical framework for the politically active town square
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04)In cities around the world, the most iconic, memorable, and celebrated spaces are those where public lives converge for the purposes of political assembly. These are the places where public life and public space have a ... -
Public libraries and community planning: Studying the relationship between social infrastructure and quality of life
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04)This thesis focuses on the relationship between quality of life and public libraries – the latter situated within a broader context of social infrastructure – and I make two primary arguments throughout. First, I argue ... -
Loved to death: Balancing conservation and visitor use in planning and managing Western Canadian destination wilderness parks
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04)Many Western Canadian destination wilderness parks are experiencing a range of unique and pressing trends and challenges that have become prominent in the twenty first century. Prevalent challenges include the unprecedented ... -
The chicken-and-egg electric vehicle dilemma of British Columbia: EV policy recommendations for the modernization of the Cowichan Valley Regional District official community plan and zoning bylaws
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04)Electric vehicle (EV) ownership has risen exponentially over the last couple of years in Canada. British Columbia has seen nearly the same amount of EV sales in the last 15 months as the last 4 years combined! Despite ... -
Cycling into the future: Assessing attitudes towards e-bikes in a mid-sized, sprawled Canadian city
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-03)Cycling offers an alternative to carbon-intensive transportation, yet cycling rates in North America remain relatively low. Electric bicycles offer a low-barrier entry to cycling that have the potential to encourage a ... -
Shifting away from resource based economies: Tourism development from a planning perspective on Vancouver Island
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-03)Tourism has often been cited as the next economy for small communities and regions on Vancouver Island to tilt towards in the wake of a declining forestry industry. With development of such an undertaking, there are numerous ... -
Suburbs deserve Complete Street: A safer Hammond Bay Road for everyone
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-03)Hammond Bay Road is a crucial thoroughfare for the Stephenson Point neighbourhood in Nanaimo and carries a high daily traffic volume. It meanders along hilly terrain, making travelling dangerous for all traffic users. This ... -
Is the parish perishing?: Mixed-use church redevelopments
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-03)Churches are a significant part of both the physical and social infrastructure of Canadian cities. While church properties are privately owned, and Church congregations are religiously motivated, their actions are not ... -
[Post-print] Spatial genetic structure of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis) at the northern limit of their native range
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2020-02-22)The Canadian Rocky Mountains are one of the few places on Earth where the spatial genetic structure of wide-ranging species has been relatively unaffected by anthropogenic disturbance. We characterized the spatial genetic ... -
[Post-print] Impacts of large-scale interior murals on hospital employees: A pharmacy department case study
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-01-20)Trending in modern interior design frameworks is an integration of real and simulated (i.e. photographs, murals) elements of nature into buildings, and a number of interdisciplinary studies concern the effects of nature ... -
Stochastic McKendrick-Von Foerster models with applications
(Elsevier, 2020-01-01)A newly presented McKendrick–Von Foerster model with a stochastically perturbed mortality rate is examined. A transformation method converting the model with nonlocal boundary conditions into a system of stochastic ... -
A geochemical study of trace elements in basalts at Nankivell Point, Nanoose Bay, British Columbia
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020)Nanoose Bay is currently mapped by the BC Geological Survey (BCGS) as Upper Permian Sicker Group (360-270 ma) of oceanic-arc origin at Nankivell Point in the North, Triassic Karmutsen Formation (237-227 ma) of mid-ocean ... -
Microplastic prevalence at Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes personatus) spawning beaches on eastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020)The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of microplastics in selected sand lance “spawning” beaches (locations where sand lance eggs were observed), “non-spawning” beaches (locations where sand lance ...
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