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Landscape of Hope: The influence of place and social capital on collaborative action in sustainable management
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Collaboration offers promise for sustainable development, particularly in cases where direct involvement of affected stakeholders is essential. The actor network theory (ANT) process of translation explains how diverse interests could unite to solve environmental problems. This unique...
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Spring 2013
Recognizing that teachers are both leaders in their classrooms and colleagues in the school setting, this study focuses on the interplay of trust in the interpersonal professional relationships of teachers with their principals from the perspective of teachers. The rationale for the examination...
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Spring 2021
It has gotten increasingly harder for laypersons to determine the veracity of online health information. This is because of the explosion of content in health social media, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to create and propagate health-related content. This includes both innocuous and...
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2019-01-01
Muringai, Violet, Goddard, Ellen
Trust is an important element of effective relationships, including business relationships. In agriculture and food, public trust has sometimes been affected by food safety problems and by hesitation or misunderstanding about production practices, including the use of new technologies. In this...
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Fall 2016
With funding for public health and health promotion being cut significantly there has been increased pressure to ensure what is funded is improving health outcomes. This in turn has led to an increase in knowledge translation (KT) and knowledge translation networks. This qualitative study...
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Social Contexts of Environmental Practices: How Sustainable Development Discourses and Trust Mediate the Use of Genomics in the Alberta Beef Industry
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In the face of environmental degradation resulting from beef production, genomics may add to the options available to producers seeking to reduce their environmental impacts. This research seeks to understand cow/calf producer experiences with the environment, the environmental impacts of their...
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2016-04-30
Every day, our lives are filled with a variety of different trust judgements. When it comes to a relationship’s outcome, trust plays a key part in predicting whether or not it will last. If a relationship has trust, there is a good chance of it working out. One of the ways that people decide...
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Fall 2010
This thesis examines consumer behavior towards food risks in three different papers, focusing on two food concerns: genetically modified (GM) food and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The first paper investigates the roles of different measures of trust on consumers’ stated choices for...
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Spring 2016
Consumers’ concerns about animal diseases, production and processing methods could drive their choices of food products. Consumers’ choices of food products will influence their nutritional status. Understanding preferences for food products could inform policy and assist in forecasting future...