Browsing Marine Affairs Program, Graduate Projects by Issue Date
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An analysis of an evaluation of deep-water coral conservation and management initiatives in the Canadian Maritimes
(2012-09-20)Protected areas have been identified as the tool of choice for marine conservation, however, their implementation and use can only be deemed successful if regular evaluation of their management occurs. The purpose of this ... -
Better Planning from Better Understanding: Incorporating Historically Derived Data into Modern Coastal Management Planning on the Halifax Peninsula
(2012-09-20)As the terrestrial and marine effects of climate change continue to intensify, the value of native habitats like coastal wetlands is becoming clear. A sound understanding of how these ecosystems work is of vital importance ... -
Applications of Coral Bio-Optics to Coral Reef Management
(2012-09-20)The unabated decline of coral reefs has led to criticisms of both coral reef monitoring and management: monitoring data provides management with a limited capacity to detect current sources of stress acting on the reef, ... -
Incorporating concerns of coastal communities in planning and management: The case study of Port Joli and lessons learned from the Eastport Marine Protected Areas
(2012-09-20)Marine environment and resources are experiencing the degradation in Canada. Since Oceans Act was established in 1996, the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has tried to engage a broader view of participatory governance. ... -
Improving resources to assess climate change coastal vulnerability: a pre-assessment criteria of the socio-economic values of working waterfront infrastructures in Nova Scotia
(2012-10-26)The scientific community has stated that coastal zones will be among the zones that would suffer major negative consequences in terms of climate change effects. Nova Scotia, as a coastal province, is not absolved of such ... -
Restoring mangrove forests in Indonesia’s Tanjung Panjang area through the use of market-based incentives: Lessons learned from international case studies.
(2013-10-03)Indonesia’s Tanjung Panjang area has experienced an unprecedented loss of mangrove habitat over the past few decades, due largely to illegal aquaculture practices know as tambak farming. This is of particular concern as ... -
The role of the information of the Marine Stewardship Council certification process in developing countries: A case study of two Mexico MSC fisheries certified in Mexico
(2013-10-03)Scientific information faces many basic challenges in developing countries that affect its use and influence. Fisheries assessments are an important management tool to assist the decisions of managers and policy and ... -
Operational Conflict between Seals and Fisheries: Recommendations for Approaching the Problem in Atlantic Canada.
(2013-10-03)Conflicts between marine mammals and fisheries occur worldwide. Conflict can be separated into two categories: (i) operational conflict, involving direct physical interaction with fisheries, such as depredation and gear ... -
A Method for Assessing Coastal Vulnerabilities to Climate Change within an Arctic Community: The Example of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories
(2013-10-03)Climate change is posing problems to people throughout the world, but due to the biophysical and socioeconomic characteristics of indigenous Arctic communities, they are some of the most vulnerable in the world. Vulnerability ... -
A Guide for Integrating Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit into Decision-making for Marine Shipping Development in Nunavut
(2013-10-03)Shipping development in the Arctic region is becoming a topic of local, national, and international interest and is closely linked to other issues in the Arctic, such as climate change and natural resource exploitation. ... -
Monitoring and evaluation of Canada’s Oceans Act marine protected areas: Recommendations for governance, socio-cultural and socio-economic indicators.
(2013-10-03)Marine protected areas are becoming an increasingly popular tool in marine resource management but often monitoring programs are overlooked or are last minute additions opposed to being integral components of the management ... -
The Tragedy of the Independent: Public Policy and Traditional Recruitment in Nova Scotia’s Small Boat Fishery.
(2013-10-03)The industrialization and modernization of the fishery in Atlantic Canada has had a destructive effect on small boat dependent fisheries communities. The neoliberal policies and processes of the current political economy ... -
Integrated Ocean management - Making local global: the role of monitoring in reaching national and international commitments
(2013-10-03)With a global effort to manage the ocean’s resources and regulate the different uses, there are many international conventions and treaties. Ideally, participating counties will have their own ocean management plans either ... -
Exploring the Potential for Performance Zoning Within the Practice of Marine Spatial Planning
(2013-10-03)The practice of zoning, long employed on land, has more recently been applied to the marine environment to regulate where and when human activities can or cannot occur. Zoning is employed to minimize conflicts between ... -
An analysis of bycatch mitigation under the MSC certification of the Northwest Atlantic Canada longline swordfish fishery
(2013-10-03)Recent proliferation of market-based approaches for sustainable fisheries management has led to the creation of organizations like the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). MSC uses its fishery certification programme and ... -
Applying the Concept of Sustainable Consumption to Seafood: How Product Loss Through Post-Harvest Seafood Supply Chains Undermines Seafood Sustainability commitments
(2013-10-03)To date, efforts towards seafood sustainability have almost exclusively focused on ‘improvement on the water’, wherein the focus is to make the production systems more eco-efficient. Significant achievements have been made ... -
Incorporating Participatory Approaches into the Management of Musquash Estuary Marine Protected Area
(2013-10-03)Participatory approaches to marine protected area (MPA) management have the potential to offset management costs while promoting a sense of stewardship among communities. This study investigated the enhancement of participatory ... -
APPLYING AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EELGRASS BEDS AND OYSTER AQUACULTURE AT MULTIPLE SPATIAL SCALES IN EASTERN NEW BRUNSWICK, ATLANTIC CANADA.
(2014-02-17)Both eelgrass beds (Zostera marina) and the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) are indigenous to Atlantic Canadian coastal waters and are equally recognized as ecological engineers. However, recent eelgrass cover ... -
The Polar Invasion: An Examination of Canadian Policy Perspectives Associated with Arctic Governance
(2014-02-17)The effects of climate change on Arctic sea ice have created unprecedented international interest in accessing the Northwest Passage as a cost efficient alternative for shipping between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. ... -
The standard dilemma: A comparative analysis of global salmon aquaculture standards
(2014-02-17)Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food production method over the last several decades. In order to achieve its potential to feed a growing global population, however, salmon aquaculture must be able to overcome the ...