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The Fruits of Nature: Investigating the Prospects for Fruit Trees on Halifax School Grounds
(2015-04-29)Urban youth lack a connection to the natural world and to their food sources. Connections to the natural world can be enhanced by placing food production sites on school grounds. In this study the walk-about interview ... -
Getting to the Core of the Matter: A historical materialist study of the apple industry in Nova Scotia, 1605-1980
(2014-09-30)The story of the apple in Nova Scotia between 1605 and 1980 shows how agriculture shapes our world, and our relationship to that world. This paper reviews the failure of the apple industry, and provides insights on how to ... -
Growing Pains: The Social Role of Community and Urban Gardens During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Dalhousie University, 2022-04-22)Gardening became a popular activity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as it was seen as a safe and productive way to spend time. During the initial lockdowns in the spring of 2020, many garden supply stores ran out of seeds, ... -
Halifax Noise Study: Resident Perceptions into Noise Annoyance
(2022-04-22)As the population of Halifax, N.S. continues to grow and urbanization continues, as does the issue of urban noise. Experiencing noise at home or in urban environments is shown to have a myriad of negative health and ... -
How Deep is the Pit? Economic Externalities, Cultural Sustainability and the Environment in Contemporary Nova Scotian Mining Fiction
(2015-04-28)Mining has been a central industry in Pictou County and Cape Breton in Nova Scotia for hundreds of years, but though it has economic benefits, it also has significant social and environmental damages. These negative ... -
How do third-party certifications control the use of antibiotics in global salmon aquaculture?
(2017-09-28)Since 1980 farmed salmon has become a vital food source and world commodity; however, the resulting increase in the use of antibiotics by the global aquaculture industry has raised health and environmental concerns, as ... -
How Renewable Energy Initiatives Have Been Successfully Implemented in Morocco
(2019-05-09)Most of the literature around transitioning economies to green growth focuses on developed countries because they are assumed to be the only countries that can afford to transition. Morocco, a developing country, has ... -
Illusion or Reality: Does adoption of a certified environmental management system fundamentally alter the environmental impacts of industry?
(2016-04-23)This thesis seeks to contribute to current literature surrounding the efficacy of certified environmental management systems (EMS) at reducing negative environmental externalities associated with industry. In response to ... -
The Impact Assessment Act of 2019: Meaningful Participation of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples, or Surface Level Engagement?
(College of Sustainability, 2023-04-25)The aim of this thesis was to research the extent to which the Impact Assessment Act of 2019 achieves its goal of improving Indigenous involvement in the environmental assessment process across Canada. It does so by ... -
In the Eye of the Storm: Investigating the Relationship Between the Climate-Conflict Nexus and Child Soldier Recruitment
(2022-04-18)Despite the growing concern around climate change as a conflict threat multiplier, limited research has been done on how climate factors will change specific conflict patterns. At the same time, international institutions ... -
Innovations in Consumption: Three Case Studies on Alternative Systems of Provision in Halifax, NS
(2017-04-17)Given the challenges of climate change, mass consumerism is dominant in mitigation discourse. This thesis studies alternative systems of provision to investigate alternative sustainable consumption options. Systems of ... -
Interference in Environmental Studies and Sciences: Understanding how Identity Factors Influence Experienced Interference
(2022-04)The ability for all environmental researchers to effectively practice and communicate their research is important because it can influence policy and decision-makers. However, my research found that interference in ... -
Leading Change: Student Engagement in Sustainability Leadership
(2017-04-24)Why do students engage in Sustainability Leadership (SL)? To answer this research question, an exploratory study using mixed methodology was conducted. For the purposes of this study, SL was defined as inspiring, supporting, ... -
Lessons from Northern Gateway: A Case for Improving Public Participation in the Federal Environmental Assessment Process
(2017-04-17)This thesis explores whether public participation in the federal environmental assessment process is meaningful in practice. Public participation in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project (Northern Gateway Project) is used ... -
Measuring Environmental Attitudes of Undergraduate Sustainability Students
(2022-04-26)Since 2013, the College of Sustainability at Dalhousie University has distributed an annual survey to students enrolled in classes offered by the Environment, Sustainability and Society (ESS) program. One purpose of the ... -
Motivations in Grassroots Bartering Economies: A Case Study on Bunz Trading Zone Halifax [K’jipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki]
(2018-08-28)As a result of a mainstream economy believed to be ill equipped to counter pressing issues of climate change, ecological overshoot, wealth inequalities, corporate concentration, poverty and job insecurity, declining ...