http://hdl.handle.net/10222/12824 Tue, 14 May 2013 13:57:00 GMT 2013-05-14T13:57:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21671 Profile of Peter Duinker Dalhousie University Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21671 2013-04-05T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16036 A Voice for the Community: Public Participation in Wind Energy Development Wright, Zena M Wind energy is expanding globally and locally in Atlantic Canada. It is a promising emission-free energy alternative in a context of increasing climate change concerns. Public surveys have reported high levels of public acceptance for wind energy in general; however, this acceptance has not always been reflected in community responses to local wind projects. Public participation has been proposed as an approach for addressing the “gap” between public support and local opposition. However, public participation must not be solely viewed as a means of removing opposition but rather as the democratic right of local communities to influence decision-making processes. This paper proposes that the participatory processes currently available to host communities are limited in form and substance. Increasing the quality and quantity of public participation would provide a range of benefits, including moving towards the larger societal goal of true public governance of natural resources and the environmental. Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16036 2013-02-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16035 The Breast vs. Bottle Battle: Infant Feeding Mis/Information Rothfus, Melissa That “breast is best” is a truism even infant formula manufacturers do not openly dispute, and the choice to breastfeed has increasingly become part of the measure of a good mother in modern Canadian society. Yet the information in support of breastfeeding’s purported benefits is problematic, even as public discourse vilifies the alternative. This paper examines the issues surrounding infant feeding choices and the way in which information is utilized and manipulated by both sides of the emotionally charged breast vs. bottle debate. While there are good reasons to support breastfeeding practices, the current state of our knowledge of its benefits does not justify the often strident tone and harsh judgment adopted by breastfeeding advocates. Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16035 2013-02-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16034 Qualitative evidence, knowledge translation, and policy-making, with reference to health technology assessment Penney, Jordan Although efforts to draw qualitative evidence into health-related policy-making and health technology assessment (HTA) processes have increased in recent years, the range of sources consulted are still limited and the theoretical foundations for consulting them are underdeveloped. This essay builds on such recent scholarship, first, by opening conventional models of knowledge translation up to the possibilities of qualitative evidence, and second, by demonstrating the utility of this wider range of qualitative evidence, signally that of humanities scholarship, in health-related policy-making. The second of these will consist of two themes – pain and narrativity – that will illustrate both the particular complexity of policy-making in HTA, whereby social, ethical, and moral variables are at play, and the mitigating affect humanities scholarship, at its best, might have on this fraught process. Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10222/16034 2013-02-23T00:00:00Z