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2024-02-29
Ciriaco, Thayanne G. M., Wambura, Veronica, Wong, Stephen D.
Resilience hubs are facilities located within communities designed to improve residents' quality of life and increase the community's ability to respond to emergencies and disasters (Baja, 2016, 2018, 2019; Ciriaco & Wong, 2022). These hubs provide essential services and resources that are...
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2018-02-28
Jordan Kinder, Makere Stewart-Harawira
Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities emerges from the University of Alberta interdisciplinary research network, Intersections of Sustainability, which focuses on the relationship between water governance, climate change, and community futures. The aim of the research network is to bring a...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The 2007-2009 financial crises, government debt crises in USA and EU have motivated investigation into the following six topics: 1) optimal investment, liability ratio and dividend policies when the external risk is negatively correlated with returns in the financial...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Participation in youth sport has been associated with a range of emotional, social, physical, and cognitive benefits. Similarly, participation in school sport has been associated with several educational benefits, including increased educational attainment and likelihood...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: We propose to examine how Science- and Mathematics- textbook authors position themselves in relation to their hopes and challenges. In particular, we are interested in how the material they write might be a force or influence relating to their hopes (and challenges),...
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Short-term plant community responses to warming and defoliation in a northern temperate grassland
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Cahill, Jr. J. F., Bork, E. W., Chang, S. X., Deutsch, E. S.
Abstract: Little is known about the short-term impacts of warming on native plant community dynamics in the northern Canadian prairies. This study examined the immediate effects of elevated temperature and defoliation on plant community diversity, composition, and biomass within a native rough...
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Shrub encroachment in arctic and alpine tundra: Patterns of expansion and ecosystem impacts.
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With a warming climate, northern ecosystems will face significant ecological changes such as permafrost thaw, increased frequency of forest fires, and shifting ecosystem boundaries including the spread of canopy-forming shrubs into tundra communities. A growing number of observations show...
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Simulated impacts of relative climate change and river discharge regulation on sea ice and oceanographic conditions in the Hudson Bay Complex
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Lukovich, Jennifer V., Jafarikhasragh, Shabnam, Myers, Paul G., Ridenour, Natasha A., de la Guardia, Laura Castro, Hu, Xianmin, Grivault, Nathan, Marson, Juliana, Pennelly, Clark, Stroeve, Julienne C., Sydor, Kevin, Wong, Karen, Stadnyk, T. A., Barber, D. G.
In this analysis, we examine relative contributions from climate change and river discharge regulation to changes in marine conditions in the Hudson Bay Complex using a subset of five atmospheric forcing scenarios from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), river discharge...
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2016-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...
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Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
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Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not...