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Field to Furnace - A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Growing Switchgrass on Inactive and Underused Farmland in Nova Scotia for the Residential Heating Market
(2012-08-28)
Energy crops may present an opportunity to reduce Nova Scotia’s Greenhouse Gas emissions by offsetting fossil fuel use and provide economic benefits for farmers. They have also received government policy support. To ...
Energy Substitution Rates and Energy Policy Analysis on Nova Scotia Dairy Farms
(2013-01-10)
This paper analyzes energy substitution rates on dairy farms in Nova Scotia (NS), Canada. A transcendental logarithmic cost function is used to find the elasticities of substitution which are utilized to determine the ...
CANOPY AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF ROCKWEED BEDS IN NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK: REGIONAL VARIATION AND EFFECTS OF COMMERCIAL HARVEST AND PROXIMITY TO AQUACULTURE
(2015-04-09)
Ascophyllum nodosum (rockweed) is a significant component of intertidal rocky shore communities in Atlantic Canada. In Nova Scotia and Southwest New Brunswick, rockweed and other fucoids cover 80-90% of the intertidal zone, ...
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, REVERE: A STUDY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN NOVA SCOTIA ACTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
(2010-05-03)
Awareness and concern about the environment have been growing in recent years, and this fact has not been lost on churches. Though arguments have been made that Christianity is a cause of the world’s current ecological ...
IDENTIFYING AND OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO COMMUNITY POWER IN NOVA SCOTIA
(2012-09-13)
Community power is an alternative to the fossil-fuelled, centralized approach to electricity generation. Typically, community power involves low-carbon or renewable forms of electricity generation developed in relatively ...
Population regulation of sea urchins in a rocky subtidal ecosystem
(2015-03-31)
Herbivory by sea urchins is an important control of seaweed biomass worldwide. For my doctoral thesis, I investigate biological processes that govern the dynamics of a kelp bed ecosystem on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia: ...
Disordered Eating Behaviour and Depressive Symptoms Among Nova Scotia Youth
(2011-12-15)
Prevalence rates for adolescent depressive symptoms differ significantly between males and females. Explanatory models are unable to adequately clarify why this difference exists. To enhance understanding of gender ...
Biology, Ecological Impacts, and Management of Japanese Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum syn. Fallopia japonica) in Nova Scotia
(2013-04-04)
Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant that grows in disturbed sites across Nova Scotia. This study recorded an average spring growth rate of 6cm per day until reaching a canopy height exceeding 2m in June. Knotweed stands ...
The Challenge of Youth Engagement in Local Government: Exploring the Use of Youth Councils in Amherst and Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
(2014-04-04)
Youth councils are an increasingly popular tool that both government and non-governmental organizations use to inform policy and program development, to increase the participation of young people, and to improve the ...
An investigation into the development and content of HIV prevention and harm reduction policies in Nova Scotia: Do they address the needs of women who inject drugs?
(2012-03-12)
Background: Women who inject drugs continue to represent a disproportionate percentage of new cases of HIV in Canada (PHAC, 2006). However, in Nova Scotia, HIV has still not been conceptualized as a major health issue, ...