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Promoting Reconciliation and Indigenous Self-Determination through Ecosystem-Based Management
(2023-12)Sipekne’katik First Nation launched their Mi’kmaw-regulated, rights-based lobster fishery in the fall of 2020. The launch came 21 years after the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Treaty-protected right to fish for a moderate ... -
Promoting Sustainable Paper Use in the Killam Library
(2004-04)The project goal is to provide education on how to reduce, reuse, redirect and ultimately how to rethink paper use. This project explored paper use at Dalhousie University, with the goal of raising awareness to promote ... -
Properties and applications of protein-stabilized fluorescent gold nanoclusters: short review.
(2012)A review. Research is turning toward nanotechnol. for solns. to current limitations in biomedical imaging and anal. detection applications. New to fluorescent nanomaterials that could help advance such applications are ... -
The Properties of Microjansky Radio Sources in the HDF-N, SSA13, and SSA22 Fields
(2003-03)(abridged) We present multiwavelength observations for a large sample of microjansky radio sources detected in ultradeep 1.4GHz maps centered on the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N) and the Hawaii Survey Fields SSA13 and ... -
The Properties of Sub-mm Galaxies in Hierarchical Models
(2008-09-05)We use the combined GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and GRASIL spectrophotometric code to investigate the properties of galaxies selected via their sub-mm emission. Our fiducial model has previously been ... -
Proposal for a Comprehensive Risk Framework for the Canadian Marine Shipping Industry: A Systematic Approach to Managing Transport Risks in Canadian Waters Based on an ISO 31000 Foundation
(2021-12)Marine shipping is an indispensable sector for the Canadian economy, with projections that both the number of vessels and size of vessels will increase in coming years. Although there are effective regulations in place, ... -
A Proposed Arctic Search and Rescue Strategy for Canada
(2011-10-18)The Canadian Arctic has experienced a notable increase in maritime activity in recent years, driven in part by increased accessibility due to environmental changes as well as a growing northern cruise industry and hydrocarbon ... -
A PROPOSED METHODOLOGY FOR THE AMBULATORY MEASUREMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO NATURAL RESTORATION IN URBAN GREEN
(2013-03)It is known that natural wilderness environments can act as restorative environments for urban stress. However, it is uncertain what effect urban green spaces have on urban stress. In this study, we reviewed methodologies ... -
Protecting the migratory bird habitat at Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island: An identification of the management needs
(2012-09-20)Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island (PEI), was designated as containing “wetlands of international importance” under the Ramsar Convention in 1988 due to its unique ecological features and importance as a resting ground for ... -
Provenance and Depositional Environment of Some Lower Mississippian Sediments, Cape George, Nova Scotia
(1983-03-15)The conglomerates of northern Cape George represent a tectonic block, thrusted from the north during the Carboniferous. Previous provenance studies of the Cape George alluvial fan sediments have not been done in great ... -
Provincial Allocations of Canada’s 2030 INDC and a 2-Degree Scenario Target Using a Multi-Criteria Weighted Sum Model
(2018-04)At the 2015 COP21 Paris Agreement, Canada restated its commitment to a 2030 target of a 30% reduction from 2005 level emissions as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). At this agreement, nations in ... -
Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents
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Public Goods, Private Goods and Ambiguous Goods
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Public Participation in Offshore Wind Development: A Multi-National Analysis of Public Engagements and Consultation Requirements
(2023-12)As countries around the world become increasingly invested in offshore renewable energy developments, such as offshore wind farms (OWF), their legal requirements, policies and strategies must safeguard adequate systems of ... -
Pulling helices inside bacteria: imperfect helices and rings
(2009-04)We study steady-state configurations of intrinsically-straight elastic filaments constrained within rod-shaped bacteria that have applied forces distributed along their length. Perfect steady-state helices result from axial ... -
Putting People First: Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Develop a Culturally Relevant Salmon Fishery Management Plan
(2012-09-20)First Nations in Canada interact with the fishery with distinct sets of rights and values. In Atlantic Canada the current management system, administered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, operates under assumed neo-liberal ... -
The Pyrrhic Victory--Unemployment, Inflation and Macro-economic Policy
(Basil Blackwell, 1984) -
Pyrrhotite composition and its relationship to acid drainage potential in the Halifax Formation, Meguma Group, Nova Scotia
(1996-04-15)The physical disruption of sulphidic slates of the Halifax Formation of the Meguma Group in Nova Scotia, leads to oxidation of sulphides and the generation of acid rock drainage (ARD). Acid runoff has been a serious problem ...