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Spring 2024
The province of Alberta’s diverse ecology and large population of wild game poses the importance of management practices to keep the species population from overpopulating and encountering disease and food shortage. While hunting facilitates these management practices, the success of management...
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Knowledge, attitudes, and willingness to invest in renewable energy cooperatives in Alberta
Download2024-08-01
Fejzulla, Aela, Pare, Jenna, Parkins, John R.
Renewable energy co-operatives (RECs) provide citizens with opportunities to expand their roles within the energy system while providing environmental, economic and social benefits to local communities. Given the growth of renewable energy technologies and the long-standing use of the...
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2023-09-14
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Newcomers are reshaping the face of Canada. There are increasing numbers of newcomers arriving in Canada, where governments send them to rural municipalities to supplement their shrinking populations and declining economic forces. However, newcomers face unique challenges...
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Spring 2023
Human-coyote conflicts are increasing in urban areas, where reports of coyotes approaching, pursuing, or attacking pets and people have become more prevalent. Aversive conditioning is increasingly being advocated as a non-lethal method to reduce conflicts with bold coyotes, but it has not been...
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2023-08-14
This qualitative study addresses the underrepresentation of women as school principals, despite teaching being perceived as a feminine profession. The primary objective was to investigate why women with leadership skills choose to remain in the classroom rather than pursue leadership positions....
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Enhanced prediction of extreme fire weather conditions in spring using the Hot-Dry-Windy Index in Alberta, Canada
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Fire weather indices used to forecast fire behaviour provide valuable information for wildland fire prevention, preparedness, and suppression. The primary index used in Canada, the Fire Weather Index System, provides qualitative fuel moisture and fire behaviour indices. However, the indices used...
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Healthy Pregnancies and Beyond: Exploring the Experience and Teachings of Indigenous Grandmothers to Promote the Health of Future Generations of Indigenous people in Alberta
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Damaging colonial practices have disrupted the intergenerational transmission of culture to Indigenous children in early childhood. Culture and cultural identity play a central role in Indigenous peoples’ well-being. Despite their remarkable resilience and deep reserves of wisdom about healing...
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Defining Quality in Early Learning and Childcare among Visible Cultural Minority Families in Edmonton, Alberta
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Immigration is a key part of Canada’s strategy for population growth, and in recent years the number of visible minority immigrant families have seen a significant increase. However, they face significant settlement challenges that can lead to chronic poverty. For those with children, poverty can...
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Genetic structure of a large recolonizing carnivore: the case of the northern cougars (Puma concolor)
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Anthropogenic activities have pressured and altered landscapes resulting in extinctions and extirpations. However, increased conservation efforts and changing management strategies in some large carnivores have resulted in population and range expansion. Population growth and range expansion are...
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The role of microtopography in vegetation colonization and early forest development on mine reclamation sites
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Microsite heterogeneity is an important variable that drives biodiversity in forests. Current forest reclamation practices often do not incorporate site heterogeneity in their practices which might pose a challenge to the reclamation goals of restoring disturbed sites to resilient and sustainable...