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Why the Pirate Flag is the Only One Worth Flying Direct-action and the enforcement of international marine wildlife conservation laws
(2019)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 ... -
Towards Decentralized Power Systems: Market & Regulatory Frameworks for Ontario
(2019)This MRP is about the sustainability transition of Ontario’s electricity system. A sustainability transition is understood as a type of purposive socio-technical transition, which is meant to address some normative goal ... -
B is for Bug, O is for Oikos: A Partial Dictionary of Household Arthropods
(2019)Arthropods are the most numerous and diverse group of animals on the planet. This work seeks to explore the relations between humans and arthropods within the context of modern, North American homes. The unknown, sometimes ... -
Climate Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Grassroots Renewable Energy in Nicaragua: A case study responding to the El Niño of 2015-2016 in Las Mariitas, Somotillo, Chinandega
(2019)The Major Research Project examines the application of Community Based Adaptation practices in the community of Las Mariitas, municipality of Somotillo in Chinandega, Nicaragua. The study takes particular interest in ... -
Energy Planning for Sustainable Toronto High-Rise Development
(2019)The research topic that I wish to examine is climate change adaptation and mitigation through sustainable energy planning transformation. The focus is how high-rise multi-unit residential building trends in Toronto are ... -
How Does the LPAT Match-Up? A Comparative Analysis of Ontario’s Current and Former Land Use Planning Appeal Board
(2019)The Ontario Municipal Board (“OMB”) was recently abolished and replaced by the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (“LPAT”) as a result of stakeholder dissatisfaction with the appeal process. This research paper analyses ... -
Small Town Transit-Oriented Development in Eastern Ontario and Sweden
(2019)Transit-oriented development (TOD) – the practice of planning dense, mixed-use nodes around a transit station – is becoming increasingly common in Canadian and North American urban planning. However, there has been little ... -
Tower Infill Design in the High Park Neighbourhood
(2019)The High Park neighbourhood in Toronto has recently been experiencing an influx of infill development proposals. This project will critically analyze the built form of the neighbourhood along with the existing proposals ... -
Indigenous Participation in Clean Energy Activities in Canada: Passive Participation or ‘Community Energy’?
(2019)The trend toward bottom-up energy action through community clean energy projects has important implications for climate change mitigation in both non-Indigenous and Indigenous communities. As a result of a literature review, ... -
A Long Road to Justice: The Struggle for Maya Land Rights in Southern Belize
(2019)After a decades long struggle, the Maya people have just recently had their communal right to land officially recognized by the highest court in Belize. Although these land rights are guaranteed in political and legal ... -
FOR THE POWER OF SHE Diasporic Space: Black Women, Storytelling and Performance
(2019)Historically, Black women have spent generations in the servitude of white society. Over the centuries, Black women’s bodies have become sites of violence, stereotyping, sexual, physical and mental assault. At the same ... -
Das Ich(thys): A Shark (dis)Orient-ed Onto-Economy/ A Biopolitics of Shark Ethnography
(2019)The meaning of sharkness in the West is coloured by many factors. Phenomenological commoditizations of varied sorts ranging from fiction films and TV, ecotourism and curated educational experiences such as aquariums provide ... -
Planning for Secure Surface Bus Stops in Toronto
(2019)This paper evaluates the ways spatial planning understands and engages with personal security through a study of inner-suburban surface transit stops in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although often considered by planning, ... -
Tactical Urbanism in San Francisco: A Critical Planning Analysis
(2019)This paper discusses tactical urbanism, focusing on cycling infrastructure projects that are initiated by the City of San Francisco and the ‘guerrilla’ group SF Transformation. Tactical urbanism refers to the actions taken ... -
Addressing Climate Change and Grassroots Level Adaptation Measures to Food Security in Northwestern Bangladesh
(2019)Climate change is no longer a new phenomenon; it is one of the foremost challenges of the 21st century and is a dire threat to all of humanity. Although it is an international spectacle, its impacts are not equally distributed ... -
Strategic Litigation and Advancing the Right to Housing in Canada
(2019)Strategic litigation in the context of promoting human rights requires the identification of legal cases that have the capacity to set precedents for long term social justice objectives. Strategic litigation is typically ... -
Ephemeral Geographies Of DIY Making Space In Toronto’s Creative City
(2018)This paper discusses practices of “creative placemaking” in Toronto, the complex relationships that are formed between creative practitioners and the places they create, and the crucial role of more informal and do-it-yourself ... -
‘By and For Local People’: Assessing How Canadian Local Energy Plans Contribute to the Ideals of Community Energy
(2018)In contrast with large, centralized low-carbon energy projects—which are often associated with challenges such as the destruction of local environments, substantial cost overruns and negative social impacts on local ... -
Chinese International School Students Discuss Sustainability: A Mixed Methods Study In Guangdong, China
(2018)As the number of international schools in China increases, along with the severity of environmental impacts worldwide, international school teachers need tools to effectively reach their Chinese students. This mixed-method ...
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