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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 ... -
The “Mouseland” Metaphor: How Rhetoric and Affect can Mobilize Political Change
(2020-04-27)Audiences use their own methods of verbal and emotional persuasion, which has created a gap of understanding between them and diminishes the ability for a consensus and removes opportunities for widespread political ... -
Much "ADU" About a Lot: How Social Relations Influence the Affordability of Accessory Dwelling Units in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
(2017-04-17)This research examines Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADUs) in Edmonton, Alberta. In Edmonton, these types of units are referred to as Garage/Garden Suites, however, in other municipalities they go by a variety of ... -
New to Farming: Exploring the motivations and experiences of small-scale farmers in Nova Scotia
(2015-04-29)The romanticism of rural landscapes was an essential aspect of the 1960s and 1970s back-to-the-land movement. Urbanites flocked to rural spaces as an escape from the plight of humanity in cities. In the contemporary ... -
OPEN-PIT COAL MINING IN THE ELK VALLEY AND RESULTANT SELENIUM POLLUTION: AN EGOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT OF TWO FUTURE ELK VALLEY COAL MINING OPERATIONS
(2016-04-18)Coal mining in the Elk Valley, British Columbia is one of the area’s largest industries and is important to local economic development. However, many ecological impacts associated with coal mining are being observed including ... -
Phylogeographic Analysis of the Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II b Alleles of the Trinidadian Guppy, Poecilia reticulata
(2016-05-02)The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) are a set of vertebrae immune genes, that act in defense from cellular parasites. In Poecilia reticulata MHC is shown to also affect coloration and mate choice. The guppy acts as ... -
Pilot Test for Reliability and Validity of a New Assessment Tool Measuring Relationships between Individual Health and Environmental Sustainability
(2014-04-30)This study surrounds the creation of a comprehensive assessment tool designed to measure the relationships between individual health and environmental sustainability. The existing literature surrounding health and ... -
Planning for Failure: a framework evaluation of Nova Scotia’s environmental emergency management capacity in the context of tailings dam failure
(2015-04-28)Societies have faced the challenge of understanding and responding to events that threaten life and property for eons, long before any attempts to formalize, study, and institutionalize emergency planning. This research ... -
Political Responses to Environmental Activism Tactics: A matrix analysis approach using case studies from the anti-pesticide movement in eastern Canada between 1960-2000
(2014-04-29)Despite scientific and social support, campaigns of the environmental movement often struggle to gain political traction. This research explores political responses to environmental activism using a matrix analysis approach ...