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Social Actor Engagement in Municipal Decision-Making for Parks, Planning, and Civil Society in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 1960-2010: Institutional Intersections
DownloadSpring 2020
Edmonton, Alberta, has a unique approach to public spaces that sees conjoined creation and development sharing of public spaces for the collective benefit of the community and stakeholders; this approach began 100 years ago. Green or open spaces, natural areas, the river valley, City of Edmonton...
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Sounding the Impact: A Case Study on the Social and Cultural Work of Music in the Context of the Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society
DownloadSpring 2012
The Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society (ERMS) is a volunteer organization that supports Indian classical music, mainly through the act of organizing formal concerts. As a society that is centered on supporting a genre of music that is closely tied to a particular geographical location that is...
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Fall 2015
The recent open pit mining for oil sands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR), northern Alberta has created an unprecedented industrial scale disturbance whose ecological consequences is not well understood, and requires intensive investigation. This study focused on the temporal dynamics of...
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Speech and hearing professionals' perspectives on providing aural rehabilitation services to adults with hearing loss in Alberta
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The occurrence of hearing loss increases markedly with age. Given that the population in Alberta is aging, hearing loss is expected to affect an increasing proportion of people in this province in the coming years. Research indicates that approximately half of adults in Canada with hearing loss...
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Fall 2017
Over the last few years, the importance of place in the creation, and continuation of, Metis communities has comprised one of my primary research interests. Tied up in this idea of place are the key questions: why did Metis individuals and families decide to stay in the borderlands in the face of...
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Spring 2019
Bioretention is a widely used best management practice of low impact development. It uses an engineered soil media with amendments and vegetation to manage stormwater runoff near its source through volume reduction, peak flow reduction, and physical, chemical, and biological contaminant...
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Strategic Non-Renewable Resource Governance: A History of Alberta Oil Sands Royalty Regulations, Public Finances, and Global Oil Markets
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The following thesis examines Alberta oil sands royalty regulations and public finances across different stages of oil sands development and oil price fluctuations from 1967 to 2014. The main emphasis of this thesis is on how Progressive Conservative governments managed the collection, saving,...
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Taking it into Their Own Hands: Innovative Wildfire Mitigation Measures at the Municipal Level
DownloadSpring 2015
Wildfires are an environmental hazard event experienced by populations and communities across the world. These events can have significant and long-lasting effects on the communities that are impacted, which makes the importance of mitigation apparent. Partners in Protection, a non-governmental...