Browsing College of Sustainability Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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Undergraduate students' climate change learning at Dalhousie University
(2024-04-24)Behaviour change, influenced by a basis of climate change knowledge is an important way for individuals to mitigate climate change. This requires the presence of climate change education in Higher Educational Institutions ... -
Uprooted in Place: Third Culture Kids and Migrant Movement Implications
(2021-05-04)This paper explores the correlation and differences between migrant groups and Third Culture Kids (TCKs) to determine the impact of moving countries on mental health and the concepts of belonging, tradition, memory and ... -
“We Should Never Be a Hindsight”: Food Justice in North End Halifax (K’jipuktuk)
(2017-04-25)North End Halifax is often informally referred to as a “food desert,” meaning an area with limited access to healthy and affordable food. This study examines food insecurity in North End Halifax as an environmental justice ... -
What Do The People Say? A Thematic Analysis of Transit Related Comments from the Dalhousie University Annual Sustainability Commuter Surveys 2012-2015
(2016-04-25)Each year the Office of Sustainability conducts an Annual Sustainability and Transportation Survey, where between 1200-1700 staff, students, and faculty fill out the survey. Qualitative questions have been used in these ... -
White Gold or Fool's Gold? An analysis of the textual representation of GM cotton production in Burkina Faso
(2014-05-06)This study uses Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to examine textual representations of genetically modified cotton production in Burkina Faso. Media, organizational, and academic sources are included in the analysis. Three ... -
Wild pollinator contribution to crop yield, a Comparison of landscape characteristics and their effect on seed set of Canola (Brassica sp.) in Alberta
(2015-04-28)The agricultural production of canola in the Canadian prairies is expanding rapidly, with expected yields of 16 million tonnes per year by the year 2025. It will therefore become increasingly important to better understand ... -
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 ...