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- 1Ahmad, Waseem
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- 12Parkins, John (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 12Parlee, Brenda (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 11Boxall, Peter (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 10Goddard, Ellen (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 10Luckert, Marty (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
- 9Adamowicz, Vic (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Fall 2019
This thesis is comprised of two essays on rural villages in India. The following will provide a brief abstract for each of the essays, where one focuses on the women’s power – infrastructure relationship (1) and another on agricultural productivity relative to men (2). (1) Inequality between...
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“These Trees Have Stories to Tell” Linking Denésƍliné Knowledge and Dendroecology in the Monitoring of Barren-ground Caribou Movements in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Grounded in an Indigenous methodological framework and using dendroecology as a scientific assessment tool in combination with oral history analysis, this thesis assesses changes to caribou movement patterns in the traditional territory of Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation (LKDFN), Northwest...
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Fall 2014
Many accounts of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) describe them as cohesive social movements that adequately address the social and environmental externalities of food and agricultural production. Yet others question whether initiatives that focus on localized consumer driven change can provide...
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Spring 2021
The dairy industry in Canada has undergone huge changes in the last few decades. While the average annual milk production per cow grew over three times by 2015 (average rose to 8.65 Hectolitres per and reached 9.5 Hectolitres in 2018) from 1995 levels (2.5 Hectolitres a year per cow on average),...
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Fall 2017
Since European settlement of the Canadian Prairies there has been substantial loss of wetlands. This loss occurs in large part due to drainage by private agricultural operators seeking to boost the productivity of their land. Policy makers now seek not only to conserve wetlands and prevent...
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Spring 2012
Climate change is expected to drive major changes in agricultural production around the world, but estimates of the economic impact of these changes for Canadian agricultural production have been inconsistent. Most models use aggregate temperature data such as average temperature or growing...
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Spring 2012
This thesis contributes toward the design of a novel pricing scheme that could be employed to compensate Canadian poultry producers according to their performance in specific quality traits. Based on biological data obtained from a set of growth experiments with chicken and data on chicken...
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Afforestation in Alberta: A Case Study Evaluating the Economic Potential of Hybrid Poplar Plantations Given Bio-Energy and Carbon Sequestration Considerations
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The investment viability of afforestation of hybrid poplar plantations on private land in the Province of Alberta was explored. Carbon credits from afforestation were included in the simulations. The base case showed relatively little potential for afforestation in the province. Substantial...
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Aggregate Resource Extraction: Examining Environmental Impacts on Optimal Extraction and Reclamation Strategies
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Aggregate resources are naturally occurring deposits of sand, gravel and crushed stone that are integral components to the construction of everything from roads and sidewalks, to hospitals and schools. Mining these resources can release deleterious sediments, salt and chemicals into watercourses,...
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Agricultural Producers’ Costs of Adoption of Wetland Restoration Beneficial Management Practice: Estimation and Spatial Transferability
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This thesis estimated agricultural producers’ costs of adopting a wetland restoration beneficial management practice (BMP) in the Western Canadian Prairie region using two alternative cost discovery methods. It then explored the spatial transferability of the cost estimates obtained for the two...