Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Sustainability"
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Advocating for Natural Resources: Empowering the Riverine Communities of the Amazon through Landscape Architecture
(2019-12-09)Cultural identity in the Amazon region has been destabilized by tensions between tradition and progress. This architectural thesis explores a contested landscape that both balances and revalues nature. The riverine people ... -
Biomimicry as a Design Tool for Sustainability in Burning Man
(2020-04-13)The architecture developed in this thesis explores how to use biomimicry for an integrative architectural element for a harmonious relationship between the building, its users, and the environment. The Black Rock Desert ... -
Catalyst: A New Public Architecture for Community Resiliency
(2016-08-29)This research is intended to develop an architectural design process wherein the architect actively seeks rural communities in need of social, cultural, economic and environmental revitalization. A new public architecture ... -
Designing for Sensitive Sites: Enabling Sustainable Interaction In Ecologically Sensitive Sites
(2015-04-06)Design for sensitive ecological sites while promoting interaction with those sites requires a clear understanding of where the site’s fragility lies and what measures would be most appropriate to minimize intrusion while ... -
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE SANDWICH PANELS
(2020-04-07)The use of disposable plastic items has been increasing enormously throughout the past ten years. Despite comprising of recyclable polymers, thermoplastic waste has made international headlines as a major source of ... -
Frames + Fieldnotes: Existential Architectures for the Landscape of Climate Change
(2016-04-08)The transcendental experiences and perceptual insights evoked by good architecture are not merely qualitative outcomes. They form the elements of a way of measuring what is much larger than our selves. This thesis explores ... -
Generative Morphology: Establishing Relief Networks in the Dynamic Taklamakan Desert
(2013-07-30)Desertification, the deterioration of productive and fertile lands into barren and desolate deserts, usually occurs as a result of deforestation, drought, or improper planting and agriculture. This thesis investigates ways ... -
Goaltenders to Gardeners Integrating Urban Agriculture with Existing Infrastructure to Create Stronger Communities
(2017-04-10)Set in Saint John, New Brunswick, this thesis examines the way we can combine architecture and urban agriculture to refocus existing conditions and infrastructure to act as a catalyst for communal change in a post-industrial ... -
Living with the Volcano: Balancing Culture and Ecological Sensitivity with Tourism on São Miguel Island
(2024-04-14)The weaving of human presence between locals and tourists leaves imprints on the landscape, creating traces that impact the delicate ecological balance. Islands, such as São Miguel, embody fragile environments as their ... -
Optimal Pricing and Production Strategies in Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Convex Recovery Costs, Variable Returns Quality and Remanufacturing Losses
(2017-04-06)The management of remanufactured products has become an important issue for manufacturers because of the associated economic benefits and the sustainability legislation adopted by governments. Pricing strategy is a key ... -
A Palimpsest Design Approach to Adaptive Reuse of Gas Stations
(2023-04-14)Buildings are designed for social demands, but social demands change faster than our buildings can adapt, leading to a repeating cycle of construction and demolition. This cycle causes not only negative environmental impacts ... -
PARTIAL CEMENT REPLACEMENT IN CONCRETE WITH RECYCLED GYPSUM FROM WASTE DRYWALLS
(2023-04-12)Utilizing recycled gypsum powder from waste gypsum drywalls as a partial replacement for cement in concrete can address the problems that cement manufacturing process and waste gypsum drywall disposal could cause to the ... -
Quilting Urban Fabric: Imagining Patchwork Quilting as an Architectural Methodology for Sustainability and Collective Care
(2022-07-28)As a tradition of making that is both material and social, patchwork quilting is a practice of domestic craft with meaningful potential to inform architectural and urban design in the interest of cultural, environmental, ... -
The role of eco-certification in marine salmon farming
(2023-08-10)Eco-certification schemes are certifying an increasing volume of farmed seafood. These schemes promise to improve industry practices and sustainability by creating market incentives for producers to participate in ... -
Sailing Towards Sustainable Supply Chains: A Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Green Ship Recycling in a Circular Economy
(2023-12-15)In contemporary global trade, the shipping industry is the cornerstone that facilitates the movement of approximately 90% of international commercial goods. However, environmental challenges, particularly in ship recycling, ... -
Shifting Ground: Addressing Environmental Instability through a Method of Two-Eyed Seeing in an Arctic Community
(2022-04-12)Given the necessity of addressing the impacts of climate today, research and practice must engage local ecological, cultural, and technical knowledge to drive meaningful and respectful research. Through field work and ... -
Social impact assessment practice for hydroelectricity in Canada: a review of methods and monitoring
(2021-07-14)This thesis reviewed social impact assessment (SIA) documents for licensing of projects, and news media articles for monitoring of social impacts from hydroelectricity projects. The results indicate a static consultant-led ... -
Thematic Development of Recovery, Remanufacturing, and Support Models for Sustainable Supply Chains
(2015-03-23)The long-term availability of our resources depends on the reduction of their consumption. One method to achieve this goal is to encourage product remanufacturing, as the production of remanufactured products typically ...