College of Sustainability Undergraduate Honours Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Exploring the Governance Outcomes of Social Learning through the Indigenous Circle of Experts (ICE) work with Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
(2020-05)As Canada strives towards meeting Target 1 of conserving at least 17 percent of terrestrial areas and inland water, and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020, Indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs) are ... -
Support Systems for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education: A Case Study on The University of Winnipeg’s ACCESS Education Programs.
(2020-04-27)The goal of this study is to understand the importance of inclusive learning practices in post-secondary education to alleviate social barriers for underrepresented students. There is a disconnect between access to university ... -
Environmental Attitudes and Voting Behaviour in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election
(2020-05)Despite ubiquitous scientific evidence of climate change and the perceived increase in citizens’ awareness and actions toward climate change in Canada, the Green Party of Canada (GPC) – the only major party with an explicit ... -
Support Systems for Inclusive Post-Secondary Education: A Case Study on the University of Winnipeg’s ACCESS Education Programs
(2020-05)The goal of this study is to understand the importance of inclusive learning practices in post-secondary education to alleviate social barriers for underrepresented students. There is a disconnect between access to university ... -
Refining a Games Testing Tool for Various Cultural, Social, and Geographic Situations to Evaluate Pre-School Children’s Bioaffinity
(2020-05)Time spent in nature has been proven to enhance children’s cognitive, attitudinal, emotional, and physical development (Driessnack, 2009; Giusti et al. 2014; Bratman et al. 2015; Kardan et al. 2015; McClain and Vandermaas-Peeler, ... -
Exploring the Governance Outcomes of Social Learning through the Indigenous Circle of Experts (ICE) work with Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)
(2020-05)As Canada strives towards meeting Target 1 of conserving at least 17 percent of terrestrial areas and inland water, and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020, Indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs) are ... -
Process Tracing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Canada and New Zealand: Understanding the Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in Trade Negotiations
(2020-05-04)In attempts to achieve ‘reconciliation’ in a globalized world, several governments are seeking to advance the goal of ‘progressive trade’ (NZMFAT, 2020c; Government of Canada, 2018a). Yet it is uncertain whether current ... -
Abortion in Nova Scotia: Defining and Operationalizing Access
(2020-04)It has been over thirty years since the decriminalization of abortion across Canada, however, many in need continue to face barriers accessing the healthservice (Erdman, 2017). Maritime provinces are known across the ... -
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 ... -
Testing the Effectiveness of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) as a Tool for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to Increase Supports for Refugee Claimant Integration: A Case Study of the Halifax Refugee Clinic (HRC).
(2019-05-03)Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are the main service providers for refugee claimant integration in Canada. However, these NGOs often have limited internal capacities and there is an increasing number of refugee ... -
Positive Public Communication Tools for Enhancing Wildlife-Road Safety in the Chebucto Peninsula Region, Halifax, Canada
(2019-04-19)Wildlife-vehicle collisions occur frequently and are hazardous for both humans and animals involved (Huijser, et al., 2016; Fudge, Freedman, Crowell, Nette & Power, 2007; Ramp, Wilson & Croft, 2016). Urban (and other) ... -
Potential Effects of Climate Change on Mortality of the Invasive Species Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae) in Nova Scotia, Canada
(2019)Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) kills hemlock trees by injecting poison into their stems as the feed on sap, defoliating the trees. This insect has caused widespread eastern hemlock death across the northeastern United States ... -
Determining the Sustainability of Second Generation Photovoltaic Solar Panels: Metal Production and Recycling
(2019-04-15)Second-generation photovoltaic solar panel use is increasing worldwide, thus the demand for resources, such as metals, used to make the panels is increasing as well. The main driver of this study is the United Nations and ... -
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 ...