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Achieving Conservation when Opportunity Costs Are High: Optimizing Reserve Design in Alberta’s Oil Sands Region
Download2011-08-17
Using Alberta, Canada, as a case study we use a trade-off analysis to systematically explore the relationship between conservation targets and economic opportunity costs in the context of coarse-filter reserve design. We use the Marxan conservation planning software to generate reserve designs at...
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Assessment of the Research Learning Needs of the University of Saskatchewan Librarians: A Case Study
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Shiri, Ali , Schrader, Alvin , Williamson, Vicki
As academic librarians with faculty status increasingly embrace research engagement as a core value and requirement, one of the little-studied questions is the extent to which they possess the requisite knowledge and skills to conduct high-quality research and scholarship and what further...
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2010
Clark, Diane, Emberley, Andrea, Sivak, Allison, Campbell, Sandy
Describes the results of the Continuing Education Certification Pilot Project, undertaken on behalf of The Partnership, the Library Association of Alberta and the intent to develop an operational program.
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2013
Gardner Costa, J.M., Daly, c., Kovalenko, K.E., Dixon, D.G., Ciborowski, J.J.H., Slama, C.A., Kennedy, K., Foote, A.L., Liber, K., Smits, J.E.G., Frederick, K.R., Roy, M.C., Farwell, A.J.
Boreal wetlands play an important role in global carbon balance. However, their ecosystem function is threatened by direct anthropogenic disturbance and climate change. Oil sands surface mining in the boreal regions of Western Canada denudes tracts of land of organic materials, leaves large areas...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
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Newton, M.S., Thornley, R., Birdsell, J.M., Estabrooks, C., Adewale, A., Norton, P.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
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Birdsell, J.M., Adewale, A., Estabrooks, C., Norton, P., Thornley, R., Newton, M.S.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...