Browsing by Subject "Sustainability"
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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 ... -
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, ... -
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Reflections on the Sustainable Forestry Narratives of France
(2017-04-17)Sustainability is often accused of being a modern buzzword, an accusation that masks the significance of the concept in human culture. Using environmental hermeneutics, this paper explores the origins and varieties of ... -
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 ... -
Small and Mighty: Why forage fisheries management could benefit from an ecosystem based framework. A case study on Bay of Fundy/Southwest Nova Scotia herring stock component [graduate project].
(2016)Forage fish are defined as low to mid-trophic level species that are preyed upon by many top predators within their respective ecosystems. The dependence on these forage fish from top predators makes them a crucial link ... -
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 ... -
Talking Trees-Sustainable Narratives of the Logging and Forestry Industries in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and their Relationships with Mi'kmaq Peoples
(2015-04-28)Historically, the Indigenous peoples living in Mi’kma’ki have shared intimate ties to the natural environment, and more specifically trees. This region, now more commonly known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, is home to ... -
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 ...