Browsing by Subject "environment"
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Connecting Culture and Nature in Detroit's Downtown Core: The Design of a Technical College Campus
(2012-08-15)This thesis addresses the City of Detroit`s transformation from a thriving center of trade and commerce to its present abandoned state. Due to the decentralization of industry and massive suburbanization since the ... -
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE FRAMEWORK FOR OCEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: CASE STUDIES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
(2010-08-20)Unless subjected to skeptical and conscious scrutiny, environmentally-friendly ocean energy technologies can become “Trojan machines of social inequity” due to the subtle re-organizing influences of technologies on culture ... -
IMPACT OF VARIABLE RATE SPLIT FERTILIZATION ON CROP PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IN WILD BLUEBERRY
(2014-04-04)The heavy rainfall, gentle to severe topography with high proportion of bare spots, and weed patches emphasize the need of variable rate split (VRS) fertilization in wild blueberry. Two commercial fields were selected in ... -
In Defence of Home Places: Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia, 1970-1985
(2014-09-10)This dissertation traces the origins and development of environmental activism in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, from the late 1950s to 1990, with a central focus on the period from 1970 to 1985, during which the ... -
Long-term trends in mountain groundwater levels in Canada and the United States
(2023-11-14)Mountains are vitally important for global water supply, yet little is known about how mountain groundwater is being impacted by climate change. This research aims to quantify trends in mountain groundwater levels and ... -
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS AND BARRIERS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: ADDRESSING THE ROLE OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, LANGUAGE, AND MENTAL MODELS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
(2011-08-16)The current state of organizational environmental management is inadequate to face the risks posed by the natural environment such as resource scarcities resulting from natural, social and/or economic processes such as ... -
Tlilnuo'lti'k - Weji-sqalia'timk - How we will be Mi'kmaq on our land: Working together with Pictou Landing First Nation to redefine a healthy community.
(2020-09-11)For decades Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), a small Mi’kmaq community on the northern shore of Nova Scotia, has been told that the health of their community has not been impacted by a pulp and paper mill dumping 85 ...