Browsing by Subject "Climate Change"
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Assessing Changing Baleen Whale Distributions and Incidents Relative to Vessel Activity
(2023-08-28)Baleen whales in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (NWA) are increasingly affected by human pressures related to vessel activity, fisheries entanglement, and climate change. Vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear, in ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Simulated Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement on Viability and Growth of Cultures of Near-Shore Species of Phytoplankton
(2023-04-12)Over the past 250 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have risen steadily from 277 ppm to 405 ppm, leading to the exacerbation of the effects of climate change. As a result, new technologies are being developed ... -
ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF A WARMING CLIMATE ON THE BIOTA OF ARCTIC FRESHWATER SYSTEMS
(2022-12-19)Understanding the effects of climate change is particularly important for northern regions, where temperatures have increased by considerably more than that of the global average since the start of the 20th century. As a ... -
Climate Change and the Coloniality of Foodways: Linking the Replication of an Unsustainable Scale of Ruminant Consumption to Western Cultural Imperialism
(2021-04-12)This thesis examines the cultural processes attributable to a global protein transition toward climate change inducing ruminant products. It employs the theoretical lens of the colonial matrix of power to contend that a ... -
The Effect of Respect, Trust, and Fear in Adversarial Stakeholder Relationships: A Case Study on Water Commodification and Stakeholder Engagement
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)Academic discussion around stakeholder engagement has been focused on the attributes of the various stakeholders rather than on the relationship between the stakeholders. This paper examines the role that intangible variables ... -
Examining the experiences of politically active youth in Mi'kma'ki with climate grief
(2022-08-08)Communities globally experience critical mental and physical health impacts due to the climate crisis. While these impacts may lead to clinical mental illness for some, the overall effects of grief or anxiety relating to ... -
Frames + Fieldnotes: Existential Architectures for the Landscape of Climate Change
(2016-04-08)The transcendental experiences and perceptual insights evoked by good architecture are not merely qualitative outcomes. They form the elements of a way of measuring what is much larger than our selves. This thesis explores ... -
GAME OF TONES: A TWAIL-ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACTS OF THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER REGIME IN AFRICA.
(2018-08-30)The 1992 Rio Outcome articulates what is arguably, to date, the most ambitious North–South environmentally sound technology (EST) transfer aspirations. Yet, 26 years post-Rio, Africa remains at the lowest rung of the global ... -
HOW DO SECOND HOMES AND COASTAL SHORT-TERM RENTALS AFFECT MUNICIPAL PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE?
(2019-12-12)The number of second homes (SHs) and coastal short-term rentals (CSTRs) is increasing worldwide. Although SHs and CSTRs contribute to economic and tourism development, these properties remain at potential risks due to the ... -
Identity Erosion: Adaptive Architecture for the Evolving Coastline of Fortune, Newfoundland
(2019-08-13)Newfoundland’s cultural identity is derived from a historical relationship with the sea. Situated to ensure access to fishing grounds, outports’ dependence on the fertile waters of the Atlantic guided the settlement patterns ... -
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 ... -
INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE AND CONNECTIVITY ON HIGH LATITUDE AND ARCTIC AQUATIC SYSTEMS: A PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL APPROACH
(2020-12-15)Connectivity across the terrestrial-aquatic interface drives transport of sediments and nutrients to aquatic systems, a relationship that is significant to historically undisturbed and unproductive lakes. The purpose of ... -
Land Use Factors Affecting Economic Damages From Tropical Cyclones On The US Gulf and Atlantic Coasts
(2014-12-18)This paper assesses the economic damages from 94 tropical cyclones between 1992 and 2012 along the US Gulf and Atlantic coasts. I used the Geographical Information System ArcGIS to buffer the digital track of each storm ... -
A META-GREEN A Dynamic Architecture Along the Banks of the Saint John River
(2019-04-04)Through the catalytic theory of cybernetics, this thesis proposes a local intervention within the vast network of synthetic and organic systems that span the watershed of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick, Canada. ... -
Natural Hazard Risk Communication: Examining the Flow of Knowledge from Theory to Practice
(2023-08-30)This thesis examines the mobilization of knowledge from theory to practice in natural hazard risk communication. The main question this thesis asks is “to what extent are insights from literature on risk communication ... -
Non-Parametric Statistical Tests for Differences in Fatty Acid Composition of Greenland Sharks
(2013-12-13)Variations in predator diets is important in ecology to help us understand their top-down effects on the ecosystem. In predator diets, their fatty acid signatures reflect the proportions of prey consumed. Since fatty acid ... -
Piloting DAF for Full-Scale Implementation to Mitigate Impacts of Changing Source Water Quality
(2022-12-14)In the last few decades, water treatment facilities in Atlantic Canada have experienced changes in their source waters, specifically elevated natural organic matter (NOM) levels. This is widely referred to as brownification ... -
RISK ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS ON COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL INCIDENTS
(2015)The fishing industry is one of the most dangerous occupations in the world. Extreme weather factors are an intrinsic part of the fishing operating environment and can present danger to fishers and fishing vessels. This ... -
Shifting Sediments: Inhabiting the Land, the Sea and the Space In-Between
(2022-07-25)The coastline is a dynamic edge between land and sea ruled by natural forces and illustrated through material processes of erosion, accretion, and deposition. As our climate warms, increasing storm conditions and sea levels, ... -
Sustainable Ethics and Delinquent Consumers: Environmentalist Discourse and the Apparatus of Ecological Crisis
(2020-08-28)This project analyses the dominant environmentalist preoccupation with “sustainable consumption” to account for the failure of this discourse to address the structural causes and genocidal harms of our environmental policies, ...
