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What do students perceive to be the social, economic and environmental benefits of making Dalhousie’s Studley campus car-free?
(2016-04)Dalhousie University has published several statements and plans to promote sustainability on campus. In Dalhousie’s recent campus master plan, there is a proposal to remove on-street parking along University Avenue to make ... -
What is a fish stock assessment? Is it a sound method? Can it be used to manage a commercial fishery?
(2015-09)Under Karl Popper's non-inductive theory of method arguments are never carried from data to advice as in a fish stock assessment. That is: a distinction or 'demarcation' has to be made between (i) a Lamarckian-like inductive ... -
What is the significance of “community” wind energy? The influence of local project initiation, participation, and investment on local perceptions of small-scale wind energy projects in Nova Scotia
(2013-03)Wind energy development has the potential to play a substantial role in the transition from dependence on fossil fuels to the use of renewable energy sources, and thus to contribute to efforts to mitigate climate change. ... -
What is “many-body” dispersion and should I worry about it?
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What's Fair? The Problem of Equity in Taxation
(University of Toronto Press, 1993) -
What's so bad about more inequality?
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What's the real issue in the debt debate?
(Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2003) -
WHAT’S IN A WOODLOT MANAGEMENT PLAN? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REQUIREMENTS FOR PRIVATE WOODLOT MANAGEMENT PLANNING IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2010-04)The purpose of this honours thesis was to synthesize a set of management plan criteria for private woodlot owners in Nova Scotia through a review of the relevant literature. This literature included sources such as forest ... -
What’s in our toolbox: Exploring and unlocking Canada’s blue carbon potential
(2023-05-30)Despite growing recognition of the ability of blue carbon ecosystems to sequester and store atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) for several decades, their value is often overlooked in marine management decisions and climate ... -
When and Where Can Farm-level Life Cycle Assessments be Used to Predict Aggregate Food System Contributions to Global Warming?
(2021-04)Food production is a key anthropogenic system driving global warming, biodiversity loss, land use change, and biogeochemical cycle disruption. Food system sustainability is a field of research dedicated to addressing ... -
When clean energy is dirty: A geospatial analysis of Canadian hydroelectric dams constructed between 1981 and 2011 and demographic indicators of environmental marginalization
(2022-08)The increasing urgency for climate action has pushed several governments towards investments in long-term, renewable energy sources. With its abundant supply of freshwater rivers, Canada’s shift away from oil and ... -
When does pain matter? Acknowledging the subjectivity of clinical significance.
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When “Don’t Worry” Communicates Fear: Children’s Perceptions of Parental Reassurance and Distraction during a Painful Medical Procedure
(Wolters Kluwer, 2010)hildren's distress during painful medical procedures is strongly influenced by adult behavior. Adult reassurance (e.g., "it's okay") is associated with increased child distress whereas distraction is associated with increased ... -
Where is the Carbon? Spatially Mapping Organic Carbon on the Seafloor in the Eastern Shore Islands, Nova Scotia, Canada
(2023-04)Coastal sediments contain some of the largest stocks of organic carbon on earth and play a vital role in influencing the carbon cycle. Protecting organic carbon hotspots is essential to mitigating climate change since ... -
WHITE MICAS IN THE LAKE LEWIS LEUCOGRANITE, NOVA SCOTIA
(2001-04-15)The South Mountain Batholith, a peraluminous granitic complex, ranges in composition from biotite granodiorite to muscovite-topaz leucogranite. Leucogranitic rocks form minor and late components of the batholith. The Lake ... -
The White Rock Formation Metavolcanics at Cape St. Mary, Nova Scotia: Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geologic Affinities.
(1981-03-15)A 156 meter thick section of the Silurian White Rock Formation occurs at Cape St. Mary, southern Nova Scotia in the core of a southwest plunging syncline. It includes four metabasite units identified as basaltic flows, and ... -
Whole Rock Analysis using the Electron Microprobe
(1981-03-15)Rock powders ranging in composition from a peridotite to a granite were fused on molybdenum and tantalum strips in a vacuum and a nitrogen atmosphere. A low voltage high amperage source was used to melt the rock powders. ...