Browsing College of Sustainability Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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Talking Trees-Sustainable Narratives of the Logging and Forestry Industries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and their Relationships with Mi'kmaq Peoples
(2015-04-28)Historically, the Indigenous peoples living in Mi’kma’ki have shared intimate ties to the natural environment, and more specifically trees. This region, now more commonly known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, is home to ... -
Tapping In: Community-Based Water Monitoring Program in Atlantic Canadian First Nations Communities
(2013-04-10)Drinking water quality is an issue in First Nations communities across Canada. To address this, in 2003 Health Canada created the Community-Based Water Monitoring Program across Canada to employ First Nations community ... -
Teitiota v. New Zealand - A Groundbreaking Case, or the First of Many?
(2022-04-22)In 2015, Ioane Teitiota applied for asylum in New Zealand under the term "climate refugee". Soon after he brought the case to the High Court of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , however the claim was ... -
Testing the Effectiveness of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) as a Tool for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to Increase Supports for Refugee Claimant Integration: A Case Study of the Halifax Refugee Clinic (HRC).
(2019-05-03)Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are the main service providers for refugee claimant integration in Canada. However, these NGOs often have limited internal capacities and there is an increasing number of refugee ... -
Tide and Seek: A Coastal Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessment (CAVA) Geographic Visualization in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
(2024-04-22)Sea level rise (SLR) and storm surge events (SSE) due to climate change significantly threaten the sustainability of tourism-reliant coastal communities, such as the Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Coastal risk assessments ... -
Tightening the Belt: A Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Urban Growth Boundary in Portland, Oregon and the Ontario Greenbelt in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
(2015-05-14)As the world’s population continues to increase, development is inevitable. Within North America, this has led to continuing sprawl and expansion of cities, which is resulting in a catastrophic loss of farmland. This is ... -
Towards All Age-Friendliness in Mahone Bay: A Collaborative Study
(2017-04-17)In the Now or Never: Urgent Call for Nova Scotians report, Nova Scotia communities are urged to develop local solutions to address current social and economic trends threatening their future viability. Through the Mahone ... -
Tuna and transshipment: a global analysis to explore the links between tuna diversity and transshipment vessel location
(2017-04-17)Transshipment at sea is a practice where refrigerated cargo vessels, also known as reefers, meet with fishing boats to exchange catch, fresh water, food and crew. Transshipment makes economic sense as it greatly extends ... -
Undergraduate students' climate change learning at Dalhousie University
(2024-04-24)Behaviour change, influenced by a basis of climate change knowledge is an important way for individuals to mitigate climate change. This requires the presence of climate change education in Higher Educational Institutions ... -
Uprooted in Place: Third Culture Kids and Migrant Movement Implications
(2021-05-04)This paper explores the correlation and differences between migrant groups and Third Culture Kids (TCKs) to determine the impact of moving countries on mental health and the concepts of belonging, tradition, memory and ... -
“We Should Never Be a Hindsight”: Food Justice in North End Halifax (K’jipuktuk)
(2017-04-25)North End Halifax is often informally referred to as a “food desert,” meaning an area with limited access to healthy and affordable food. This study examines food insecurity in North End Halifax as an environmental justice ... -
What Do The People Say? A Thematic Analysis of Transit Related Comments from the Dalhousie University Annual Sustainability Commuter Surveys 2012-2015
(2016-04-25)Each year the Office of Sustainability conducts an Annual Sustainability and Transportation Survey, where between 1200-1700 staff, students, and faculty fill out the survey. Qualitative questions have been used in these ... -
White Gold or Fool's Gold? An analysis of the textual representation of GM cotton production in Burkina Faso
(2014-05-06)This study uses Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to examine textual representations of genetically modified cotton production in Burkina Faso. Media, organizational, and academic sources are included in the analysis. Three ... -
Wild pollinator contribution to crop yield, a Comparison of landscape characteristics and their effect on seed set of Canola (Brassica sp.) in Alberta
(2015-04-28)The agricultural production of canola in the Canadian prairies is expanding rapidly, with expected yields of 16 million tonnes per year by the year 2025. It will therefore become increasingly important to better understand ... -
Young Agrarian Culture in Nova Scotia: The Initial and Ongoing Motivations for Young Farmers from Non-Agricultural Backgrounds
(2013)For Nova Scotia, a province historically characterized by rural communities and family farms, the overhaul of Canadian agriculture to an industrial production model has had major ramifications. Farmers are an aging and ...