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How Deep is the Pit? Economic Externalities, Cultural Sustainability and the Environment in Contemporary Nova Scotian Mining Fiction
(2015-04-28)
Mining has been a central industry in Pictou County and Cape Breton in Nova Scotia for hundreds of years, but though it has economic benefits, it also has significant social and environmental damages. These negative ...
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 ...
Sowing the Seeds of Experiential Learning: Perspectives on the Creation of a High School Gardening Class in the Halifax Regional Municipality
(2013-05-05)
This study uses a Grounded Theory framework to explore the opportunities and barriers of integrating an elective gardening class into the curriculum for high school students in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Four ...
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 ...
Canada and its commons:institutional support for a nascent social sector
(2013-04-25)
Social enterprise may help address many social and environmental issues, but needs support from a strong funding market in order to flourish. This study seeks to understand how well public Canadian institutions are supporting ...
CONNECTING PLACES: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO RAPID TRANSIT FOR THE HALIFAX REGION
(2012-05-29)
Connecting Places: A Pragmatic Approach to Rapid Transit for the Halifax Region
explores the potential for the development of a simple, cost-effective rapid transit system
for the Halifax Region, specifically for parts ...
Exploring Marine Protected Areas: A baseline governance assessment of the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
(2013-05-27)
Governance is a key component of sustainable ocean management and utilizes stakeholder collaboration to build resilient conservation and management schemes. Marine protected areas are governed from a top-down, bottom-up, ...
Getting to the Core of the Matter: A historical materialist study of the apple industry in Nova Scotia, 1605-1980
(2014-09-30)
The story of the apple in Nova Scotia between 1605 and 1980 shows how agriculture shapes our world, and our relationship to that world. This paper reviews the failure of the apple industry, and provides insights on how to ...
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 ...
Relearning Food: Agricultural Literacy in the Elementary School Science Curriculum of Nova Scotia
(2012-05-16)
This study uses manifest coding to review the Nova Scotia elementary school science curriculum guides for agricultural literacy content. The codes are derived from peer-reviewed definitions of agricultural literacy. ...