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Tapping In: Community-Based Water Monitoring Program in Atlantic Canadian First Nations Communities
(2013-04-10)
Drinking water quality is an issue in First Nations communities across Canada. To address this, in 2003 Health Canada created the Community-Based Water Monitoring Program across Canada to employ First Nations community ...
Young Agrarian Culture in Nova Scotia: The Initial and Ongoing Motivations for Young Farmers from Non-Agricultural Backgrounds
(2013)
For Nova Scotia, a province historically characterized by rural communities and family farms, the overhaul of Canadian agriculture to an industrial production model has had major ramifications. Farmers are an aging and ...
Sowing the Seeds of Experiential Learning: Perspectives on the Creation of a High School Gardening Class in the Halifax Regional Municipality
(2013-05-05)
This study uses a Grounded Theory framework to explore the opportunities and barriers of integrating an elective gardening class into the curriculum for high school students in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Four ...
"Every kid from Brazil is not a soccer star": Exploring race as a factor for service provision for immigrants in Truro, Nova Scotia
(2013-09-20)
This study reviews the literature on systemic racism in Canada, how it is perpetuated through white privilege and how it influences national immigration policy. Using a qualitative exploratory approach, this study then ...
Canada and its commons:institutional support for a nascent social sector
(2013-04-25)
Social enterprise may help address many social and environmental issues, but needs support from a strong funding market in order to flourish. This study seeks to understand how well public Canadian institutions are supporting ...
Exploring Marine Protected Areas: A baseline governance assessment of the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve
(2013-05-27)
Governance is a key component of sustainable ocean management and utilizes stakeholder collaboration to build resilient conservation and management schemes. Marine protected areas are governed from a top-down, bottom-up, ...
Examining the impacts of marine tourism in the Seaflower MPA of San Andrés, Colombia
(2013-05-04)
San Andrés attracts roughly 400 000 tourists annually to white sand beaches and coral reefs. The island sits within the Seaflower Marine Protected Area, which covers 75% of Colombia’s coral reefs, including the western ...
Promoting change throughout energy systems using economic incentives - A novel approach to electricity billing to improve The City of Summerside’s energy security and reduce its carbon emissions
(2013-05-16)
With energy demands increasing rapidly, energy suppliers are struggling to keep up. Upgrading the existing systems comes with an enormous price tag for the supplier, who in turn must recover these costs by increasing rates ...