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Structural Barriers to Finding Home: Poverty Governance in a Housing and Homelessness 'Crisis'
(2024-04-10)
This thesis examines the political changes and processes that impact people experiencing
homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in Nova Scotia. I use the theoretical lens of poverty governance to argue ...
Land is Home: Healing the Narrative of “Indigenous Homelessness” in Yellowknife
(2024-04-15)
“Indigenous Homelessness” in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, stemmed from a settler colonial legacy, where processes of urbanization and housing policies have disrupted the connection between people and the land. This ...
Integrating Frailty and Physical Resilience to Improve Risk Estimation in Aging Populations
(2024-04-11)
Background:
Physical resilience, broadly defined as the ability to resist or recover from health stressors, is a relatively new concept in the field of aging, yet, anticipated as a potentially game-changing idea. In ...
Addressing Crowded Loneliness: A Recomposed Residential High-Rise Typology
(2024-04-09)
The demand for density in today’s urban environment has created the ideal condition for the residential high-rise typology as it increases land density and prevents urban sprawl. However, the rapid implementation of the ...
Decolonizing Marine Safety and Shipping in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Looking inwards and to Inuvialuit for insights for reconciliation
(2024-04-10)
The governance of shipping in Inuit Nunangat has been evolving in response to a growing interest in polar navigation and a recognition that while such navigation is possible, it comes with unique risks and operating ...
Neuroscience and Architecture:A Study of Housing for Seniors
(2024-04-11)
This thesis focuses on the design of kitchen-dining spaces for autonomous to semi-autonomous seniors that addresses their neural needs, taking into consideration the declines that are occurring in the brain. Designers ...
In My Place: Fostering Connection and Continuity in Canada's Aging Rural Communities
(2024-04-11)
Facing Canada's demographic shift toward an aging population, this thesis addresses the challenges of aging in rural communities, where services for older adults are often lacking. This thesis proposes intergenerational ...
Value Struggles: The Politics of Production in Rural Cuba
(2024-04-12)
This dissertation examines the politics of value in contemporary rural Cuba, focusing on the agricultural region south of Havana. The Soviet bloc’s collapse in the 1990s and Cuba’s need to reconnect to the neoliberal global ...
Exploring the Possible Impacts of a Guaranteed Livable Income on Low Income Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia: A Grounded Theory Analysis
(2024-04-09)
Women with disabilities are more likely rely on income assistance than women without disabilities or men with disabilities. In Nova Scotia, income assistance rates fall significantly below the poverty line, placing women ...
Ligand-enabled advances in Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling
(2024-04-11)
Due to their abundance in bioactive molecules, the construction of C(sp2)-X bonds (X = C, N, O) using cheap and abundant aryl electrophiles is centrally important in synthetic organic chemistry. Homogeneous catalysis has ...