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Spring 2024

Wilson, Amy

Although oil and gas overshadow coal mining in conversations about fossil fuels, coal still plays a significant role in Alberta’s culture, economy, and energy supply. In some pockets of Alberta, coal mining is central to local communities and their future aspirations. This study uses a case study...

Spring 2024

Manawat, Vaibhav N

Wildfire management agencies must continue to evolve and adjust to the dynamic nature of their industry. They face pressures that include a changing climate with the prospect of intense future fire seasons, tighter government budgets for wildfire detection and suppression, and the fast-pace of...

Fall 2024

Olufemi, Michael O

In recent years, there have been rising public concerns regarding production practices related to antimicrobial use (AMU) in food-animal production (FAP). Many FAP practices have requirements that consumers are not fully aware of. The raised without antibiotics (RWA) requires that no antibiotic...

Fall 2024

Letourneau, Angeline Marie

As pressure continues to grow to reduce global emissions, recognition of the widespread impacts on various groups from such efforts has inspired calls for a just transition. On the one hand, Canada's path to decarbonization must address workers who stand to lose their jobs, while ensuring this...

Fall 2024

Abdurasulova, Kamola

The Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) program has been the cornerstone of Canada’s agricultural policy frameworks since 2003. It is a voluntary, self-administered program designed to help agricultural producers assess and mitigate environmental risks on their farms. The EFP program has seen varied...

Fall 2024

Katulunga, Innocent B

Child stunting is a public health issue that affects millions of children under five years of age around the world. This condition hinders cognitive development, posing challenges for academic success and future earning potential. Consequently, it perpetuates a cycle of poverty and malnutrition....

Fall 2024

Gorzitza, Carter

Indigenous community-based monitoring (ICBM) has the potential to act as a vehicle for building capacity in the community - particularly amongst youth, creating culturally oriented jobs to strengthen intergenerational learning, and contributing information to environmental governance and...

Fall 2023

Mohammed, Abdul-Hamid

The pressure to achieve net-zero CO2 objectives has heightened the need to evaluate energy technologies in Canada, where the oil and gas industry remains essential to the economy. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a component of Canada’s net-zero CO2 strategies and can absorb up to 90% of the...

Fall 2023

Schmaus, Lucas

Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian North has and continues to be limited by the extractive and disempowering political economy of the mining industry. This thesis reports a community-based participatory research study which evaluates the perceptions of a sample of residents a group of...

Spring 2023

Lim, Meghan A

Smallholder farmers in rural regions of developing countries are often vulnerable to climate events. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) seeks to sustain or improve agricultural yields while mitigating climate change. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)...