Environmental Studies: Recent submissions
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Storytelling Seasonally Dry Neotropical Forest: The Social Production of Space and Nature in Peasant Communities of a Costa Rican Dry Forest
(2020-08-11)In the state-created settlements of Bagatz and Falconiana in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, spatialized social relations are co-constituted with processes of production and reproduction. This dissertation illustrates ... -
The (Un)Making of the Working Class in Karachi, 1980s -2010s
(2020-08-11)This dissertation traces the evolution of working-class politics in Karachi (Pakistan) over the past four decades. I develop an integral and non-teleological approach to the study of class, state, and civil society by ... -
State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
(2020-08-11)The post-Kyoto era of climate governance has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of actors and organizations, resulting in a complex institutional regime that displays the essential features of ... -
Why the Pirate Flag is the Only One Worth Flying Direct-Action and the Enforcement of International Marine Wildlife Conservation Laws
(2020-08-11)The subject of international law is fraught with debate over its legitimacy and efficacy. If laws without enforcement are merely good advice, then how can the environment be meaningfully protected by international legal ... -
The Deployment of Difference: The Space of Possibility and Garifuna Resistance to Dispossession in Honduras
(2020-05-11)This dissertation focusses on Garifuna struggles against dispossession from their territories in Honduras. My work focusses on two organizations and their affiliates in the present and is based on an ethnographic analysis ... -
Common Health: The Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Supporting Community Action for Health Equity and Justice
(2020-05-11)This dissertation explores the ways in which reporting requirements, evaluations, management decisions and other metrics and processes contribute to a growing gap between community development goals of community health ... -
Protected Areas, Indigenous Peoples, and Reconciliation in the United States of America
(2019-11-22)This dissertation examines the relationship between the Chinook Indian Nation and United States National Park Service (NPS) at two small national parks along the Columbia River Lewis and Clark National Historical Park and ... -
The Experience of Ontario Teacher Candidates who care for the Environment: Seeking Ways to Define, Integrate, and Support Teacher Candidates' Passion and Activism for Food and the Environment into Their Pre-Service Learning
(2019-11-22)A qualitative study of 13 teacher candidates (TCs) involved in and passionate about environmental issues was conducted. This study explored how activist TCs developed their identity as learning teachers who want to incorporate ... -
The Impact of School Eating Environments on the Wellbeing of Children Transitioning from Full-Day Childcare to Full-Day Kindergarten
(2019-03-05)This study explored the impact of school eating environments on the wellbeing of children in the Full Day Kindergarten (FDK) Early Learning Program in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and compared childrens experiences ... -
Beyond the End or the Means: Co-Theorizing Engagement for HIV Programming and Service Provision
(2019-03-05)Within health, community engagement is positioned as either a means, or an end. It is often framed as an apolitical, linear, and/or individualistic process, thus eschewing the relational or socio-structural factors that ... -
Material Society and the Science-Policy Interface in Environmental Decision-Making: Understanding Risk and Mercury Pollution Policy in Canada 1995 to 2005
(2019-03-05)The intrinsic conflict investigated herein is that on the one hand, scientific evidence is required as a basis for environmental policy decisions; however, socio-economic and political dimensions of risk dominate decision-making ... -
Contexts, Conditions and Methods Conducive to Knowledge Co-Production: Three Case Studies Involving Scientific and Community Perspectives in Arctic Wildlife Research
(2019-03-05)Decision-makers require current and robust information to address the effects of social-ecological changes facing ecosystems, wildlife, and humans; however, research defined by single disciplines and knowledge systems is ... -
Back-to-the-Land: Analyzing Rural Anarchist Practice in Relation to Anarchist Theories of Community-Building: A Case Study of the Dragonfly and Black Fly Land Collectives
(2018-11-21)This dissertation problematizes the idea of the rural as a backwards and reactionary place and addresses the theoretical and practical contributions of anarchism to reconsidering the rural as a site of revolutionary ... -
Chinese International School Students Discuss Sustainability: A Mixed Methods Study in Guangdong, China
(2018-11-21)This mixed-method study was conducted at an international school near Guangzhou, China and included a total of 40 Likert-scale questionnaires, a focus group and nine individual interviews with the 100% Han Chinese student ... -
Economics from the Top Down: Does Hierarchy Unify Economic Theory
(2018-11-21)What is the unit of analysis in economics? The prevailing orthodoxy in mainstream economic theory is that the individual is the ultimate unit of analysis. The implicit goal of mainstream economics is to root macro-level ... -
Expanding the Praxis of Indigenous Rights: Alternatives to Colonial Relations in the Regional Land Use Planning Process of the Mushkegowuk Cree
(2018-05-28)This research examines the conflict between provincial and Indigenous land use planning approaches in northern Ontario that involve the traditional territories of the Mushkegowuk Cree. Specifically, I examine how the ... -
In Deeper Waters: Indigenous, Gendered Approaches to Sustainability
(2018-05-28)This work presents a decolonizing methodology toward understanding sustainability in time and place. Methods discussed are experiential and grounded in my own positionality. Therefore, I introduce an intersectional approach, ... -
Speaking with the River: Embodied Encounters and Local Values of the Ro Peas Blancas in Response to Potential Hydroelectric Development in South-Pacific Costa Rica
(2018-03-01)In Costa Rica, the states decision to approve the construction of two private hydropower dams along the Peas Blancas River is being called into question by local residents and non-governmental agencies who caution against ... -
Yim'uthi gomololo: Land, Labour, Poetry, and The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa
(2018-03-01)The present work is an interdisciplinary investigation of the environmental politics of written and oral literature in South African society and the shifting role of the amaXhosa imbongi, or oral praise poet, from colonial ... -
Climate Justice: Its Meanings, Its Struggles, and Its Prospects Under Liberal Democracy and Capitalism
(2018-03-01)The term climate justice, despite wide usage, defies easy definition. I argue that in order to appreciate it in its full complexity, climate justice is best understood as a moral framework with 2 facets. Facet 1 allows us ...