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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 2015

Rollins, Curtis

This thesis is divided in two papers, each focusing on a distinct issue. In the first paper (Chapter 2), public preferences for poplar biotechnology are examined in western Canada. Using a sample of the public from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, respondents were asked to...

Spring 2016

Dairon, Matthew Ryan

This thesis addresses two main goals that are outlined in two related studies. The first goal is to explore energy related debates occurring in southern Alberta through Q-methodology. Energy landscapes are continuously changing and evolving as technology advances and concerns such as climate...

Fall 2017

Laryea, Anita A.

Consumers in developed countries are increasingly considering process attributes including Farm Animal Welfare (FAW) in their purchasing decisions. However, there have been few studies on Canadian consumers’ concern for FAW and the choice of FAW labelled meat as a process attribute in meat...

Spring 2014

Xie, Shuoyi

This study conducted analysis to model adoption of Beneficial Management Practices (BMPs) by a representative irrigated cropping operation in southern Alberta. Three base rotations were developed that include combinations of cereals/oilseeds, dry beans, potatoes and sugar beets. Stochastic...

Spring 2018

Lloyd-Smith, Patrick

Understanding peoples' preferences for resources that are not bought or sold in a market is a challenging and yet often inescapable undertaking for informing decisions regarding many environmental problems. This thesis presents three studies on how people make decisions involving environmental...

Fall 2020

Romero Hernandez, Catalina

Food security in developing countries is an essential component of welfare. However, the food security of households can be constrained by the lack of access to international markets, gender inequality, weak agricultural policies and institutions, climate change, and poverty. Smallholder farmers...

Spring 2020

Fisher, Anthony G.

Forests face a variety of environmental and societal pressures and genomics offers one possible tool to help alleviate these pressures. However, public perceptions of genomic selection when used in tree breeding are not well understood. This study seeks to examine how stakeholders from forest...

Spring 2023

Chitsaz, Sara

As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, there is a growing focus on low-carbon initiatives, specifically renewable alternatives to conventional fossil fuels for energy production. Transitions to renewable energy sources may occur across scales, including community-scale energy...

Spring 2017

Bozan, Ozgur

The public understanding and policy agendas about the climate change issue have been influenced by the media, one of the most dominant industries in the 21st century. Decades of research have been conducted in media analysis to understand how the media shapes public engagement and policy agendas...